Economic History

The geography of American retail has changed dramatically since the first luxurious department stores sprang up in nineteenth-century cities. Intro...

In this short, highly readable book, the master of world-systems theory provides a succinct anatomy of capitalism over the past five hundred years....

The geography of American retail has changed dramatically since the first luxurious department stores sprang up in nineteenth-century cities. Intro...

The urgent demand for housing after World War I fueled a boom in residential construction that led to historic peaks in home ownership. Foreclosure...

This innovative analysis investigates a complex issue of tremendous economic and political importance: what makes some countries vulnerable to bank...

Should the United States be open to commerce with other countries, or should it protect domestic industries from foreign competition? This question...

In the eighteenth century, the Cul de Sac plain in Saint-Domingue, now Haiti, was a vast open-air workhouse of sugar plantations. This microhistory...

This book reconsiders the role of the Phillips curve in macroeconomic analysis in the first twenty years following the famous work by A. W. H. Phil...