Economic History

A Land of Dreams, first published in 1993, explores two events in recent English history: the settlement of East European Jews in the East End of L...

Elinor (Lin) Ostrom was awarded the 2009 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for her pathbreaking research on "economic governance, especiall...

This classic study of German creditbanks was first published in 1930 and even now deserves its place as a fundamental text on banking in Germany. I...

The modern global economy and discipline of economics place mathematical calculation above human concern. However, a re-reading of Boethius’ The Co...

Financialisation has become a widely discussed and debated term leading to a plurality of perspectives, but no fixed definition or single reading. ...

First published in 1907, this substantial volume emerged as guidance to those involved in international trade at the time of the British Empire, wi...

This book contributes to the ‘new view’ reading of Adam Smith, providing a historically and contextually rich interpretation of Smith’s thought. Sm...

Originally published in 1980 but re-issued now with a new preface, this book looks at the German manager from a sociological viewpoint and explains...

First published in 1905, these two volumes together reproduced the text of Rawlinson MS. B 408 from the Bodleian Library in two parts. They consist...

First published in 1975, South Wales Miners starts with the War of Empires, when nearly 50,000 Welsh miners, almost one-fifth of the total manpower...

Out of Slavery, first published in 1985, is a series of articles commissioned on the 150 year anniversary of William Wilberforce’s death and the Ac...

This fascinating study follows the fortunes of the Höchstetter family, merchant-manufacturers and financiers of Augsburg, Germany, in the late-fift...

This book presents an innovative history of the first Portuguese public bank, by exploring the relationship between banking activities and the poli...

The theory of interventionism of the Austrian School of Economics explains the successes and failures of the transformation processes in Central an...

First published in 1905, this volume on the Cotton Industry emerged in the context of Joseph Chamberlain’s proposed Tariff Reform and provided an a...

Out of the House of Bondage, first published in 1986, focuses not on slave rebellions, which were of crucial importance but not common occurrences,...

Originally published in 2005. In the past three centuries Britain, Continental Europe and the United States have all experienced remarkable continu...

Originally published in 1972 this study analyses the process of economic growth and social change in the riparian communities of the Lower Volta Ri...

Deftly blending social and business history with economic analysis, Employing Bureaucracy shows how the American workplace shifted from a market-or...

What role did economics play in leading the United States into the Civil War in the 1860s, and how did the war affect the economies of the North an...

Deftly blending social and business history with economic analysis, Employing Bureaucracy shows how the American workplace shifted from a market-or...

Workers in Brazil and the United States have followed parallel and entangled histories for many centuries. Recent experiences with progressive, pop...

Antislavery Political Writings, first published in 2004, presents the best speeches and writings of the leading American antislavery thinkers, acti...