Economic History

Moving from the mid-seventeenth century to the near present, this book marks physical and conceptual changes across European towns and examines how...

This book examines the emergence of professional advertising in western India during the interwar period. It explores the ways in which global manu...

This book surveys the economy of Wales from the first Norman intrusions of 1067 to the Act of Union of England and Wales in 1536. Key themes includ...

This book takes as its point of departure the strong Swedish economic-historical scholarly tradition that has combined rigorous macroeconomic analy...

A THOUGHT-PROVOKING EXPLORATION OF OUR WORLD'S ECONOMIC PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTUREIn a journey over centuries only recently marked by prosperity, Le...

A new English translation of a forgotten German text that influenced cultural understanding of money in the early twentieth century. Heinrich Schur...

This book focuses on the Canaanite-Phoenician economic systems that predominated in and determined Mediterranean history. Phoenician trade networks...

A sweeping account of how the sea routes of Asia have transformed a vast expanse of the globe over the past five hundred years, powerfully shaping ...

From the author of Dead Aid, Dambisa Moyo's How the West was Lost explores how the 'first world' has its wasted inheritance with flawed economic po...

This book examines the entwined and simultaneous rise of graphic satire and cultures of paper money in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-centur...

From 1839 to 1949, Imperial and Republican China was ruthlessly subjected to territorial, economic and political exploitation by Europe, Japan and ...

Through economics, our politicians have the power to transform people's lives for better or worse. Think Deng Xiaoping who lifted millions out of p...

In response to global crises in recent decades, many countries both developed and developing economies have resorted to populist forms of economi...

This edited volume explores the interplay between political, economic, and financial development in twentieth-century European authoritarian regime...

This book is a renovative research work on Ricardos theory of value and of money, achieved through analysis of Ricardos original writings, made ava...

The Meddlers is an eye-opening, essential new history that places our international financial institutions in the transition from a world defined b...

Chinas status in the world of expanding European empires of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries has long been under dispute. Its unequal r...

A sweeping account of how the sea routes of Asia have transformed a vast expanse of the globe over the past five hundred years, powerfully shaping ...

Many people are intrigued by the theories of Adam Smith, particularly those found within The Theory of Moral Sentiments (TMS). The ideas in his 18t...

As a vehicle to convey both the history of modern China and the complex forces still driving the nations economic success, rail has no equal. Railr...