Economic History

This pioneering and celebrated work was the first, and remains the standard, account of the economic history of the huge area conventionally known ...

First published in 1998, The European Yearbook of Business History publishes research and review articles in English on the history of private ente...

Based on a mixture of primary historical research and secondary sources, this book explores the reasons for the failure of the state in England dur...

How has agency or the ability to define and act upon ones goals contributed to global long-term economic development during the last 150 years? T...

There has been much discussion about the origin of marketing and marketing thought, and whether it was truly American in origin. Nevertheless, it i...

The coal industry has been and continues to be of critical importance for China's economic modernization. With its huge labour force, country-wide ...

The studies collected here centre on the social and economic life of medieval Germany, within a broader European context. The first three articles ...

Although considered a classic thinker, Sismondi is seldom discussed, at least in English. In this context, this volume offers a key reference work ...

Firm growth. This concept has interested researchers for generations. Economists have sought to predict and measure firm growth using a host of dif...

Offering a retrospective view of how the system operated in Communist Czechoslovakia, this book is an important voice in the discussion about the s...

Throughout human history luxury textiles have been used as a marker of importance, power and distinction. Yet, as the essays in this collection mak...

Published in 1959: This book is the only detailed study of the origin of the German customs union and its history up to the establishment of the un...

This title was first published in 2002. Debates about the desirability, feasibility and appropriate form of international economic regulation are n...

Adam Smiths contribution to economics is well recognised, but scholars have recently been exploring anew the multidisciplinary nature of his works....

Global issues such as climate change and the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis have spurred interest in thinking about the history of the mode...

This title was first published in 2002. The concept of embeddedness refers to the social construction of inter-firm relationships and the enmeshin...

First published in 1997, this book analyses some of the key economic issues facing Europe in the interwar period, against the uncertain internation...

Social and Economic Life in Byzantium is the third selection of papers by the late Nicolas Oikonomides to be published in the Variorum Collected St...

'Aristocracies', 'Old Regime colonial elites' - from Adam Smith to Karl Marx and beyond, scholars have discussed their role in the rise of the mode...

This title was first published in 2002: From Individualism to the Individual treats finance as a social and cultural process, exploring the unseen ...

Published in 1997, each volume in this new series is a collection of seminal articles on a theme of central importance in the study of transport hi...

This title was first published in 2003.The principal economic units in most developing countries are family based farm households. Empirical models...

This volume is a history of economics as it was interpreted, discussed and established as a discipline in the 20th century. It highlights the plu...

This title was first published in 2001. The emergence and development of automobile production in Australia was a long, drawn out and costly busine...