Economic History

Franklin D. Roosevelt is frequently described as one of the greatest presidents in American history, remembered for his leadership during the Great...

The mid-1800s witnessed a mass exodus from the Pennine Dales as the then latest generation of farmers and miners sought a new life in the New World...

Global history is predicated on connections and exchange: how connections between far-flung people, places, and objects are forged through a variet...

Djekhy & Son, two businessmen living 2500 years ago in the densely populated neighborhoods built around the great temple of Amun at Karnak, wor...

Never have financial markets been subjected to a period of change as rapid and extensive as took place from the 1970s onwards. In the 1970s global ...

Imagine if you were there, taking notes, as a small pizza joint became one of the most successful restaurants in the world. The Domino''s Story wil...

Donald Hornes The Lucky Country claimed that Australia was one of the first nations to find part of the meaning of life in the purchase of consumer...

The upheavals of recent decades show us that traditional models of understanding processes of social and economic change are failing to capture rea...

A penetrating look into the extreme plutocracy Vladimir Putin has created and its implications for Russias future   Full of insight and informed ju...

In the second half of the twentieth century, Germany became the dominant political and economic power in Europe - and the arbiter of all important ...

The six Arab monarchies of the Persian Gulf Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have a disproportionate impor...

A major new economic history of the ancient Mediterranean worldIn The Open Sea, J. G. Manning offers a major new history of economic life in the Me...

In the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable. Electric light...

An incisive look at the intellectual and cultural history of free enterprise and its influence on American politics   Throughout the twentieth cent...

A history of major financial crisesand how taxpayers have been left with the bill In the 1930s, battered and humbled by the Great Depression, the U...

The end of our high-growth world was underway well before COVID-19 arrived. In this powerful and timely argument, Danny Dorling demonstrates the be...