Economic History

Throughout the twentieth century, Wales underwent rapid and far-reaching economic upheavals on such a scale that few avoided their impacts from re...

A lively account of how dinosaurs became a symbol of American power and prosperity and gripped the popular imagination during the Gilded Age, when ...

In the first half of the nineteenth century the Qing Empire faced a crisis. It was broadly perceived both inside and outside of government that the...

This book provides the first edition with an extensive introduction and full commentary of a unique land survey written on papyrus in Greek which d...

Indonesia is often viewed as a country with substantial natural resources which has achieved solid economic growth since the 1960s, but which still...

The Great Crash of 1929 violently disrupted the United States' confident march toward becoming the world's superpower. The suddenness of the catacl...

When President James Monroe announced in his 1824 message to Congress that, barring an emergency, the large public debt inherited from the War for ...

Money and finance have been among the most potent tools of colonial power. This study investigates the Japanese experiment with financial imperiali...

In this innovative legal history of economic life in the Western Indian Ocean, Bishara examines the transformations of Islamic law and Islamicate c...

Jesus taught his followers that it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven. Yet by the fall of ...

This book is the definitive study of imperial Chinese local gazetteers, one of the most important sources for premodern Chinese studies. Methodolog...

How can the simple choice of a mens suit be a moral statement and a political act? When the suit is made of free-labor wool rather than slave-grown...

Ending poverty continues to be a major challenge for the global community. It is even more urgent and relevant today when the world is facing the c...