Economic History

A book which covers the key period in the history of actuarial science from the mid-17th century to the early 19th century. There are reprints of t...

The Englishwoman’s Review, which published from 1866 to 1910, participated in and recorded a great change in the range of possibilities open to wom...

Despite his achievements, David Ricardo’s views on money have often been misunderstood and underappreciated. His advanced ideas had to wait until t...

This book provides the most comprehensive history of German migration to North America for the period 1709 to 1920 than has been done before. Emplo...

This volume, featuring sixteen contributions from leading Roman historians and archaeologists, sheds new light on approaches to the economic histor...

Starting from a distinction made by the American philosopher, John Rawls, in 2000 between two kinds of liberalism, "liberalism of freedom" and "lib...

Heinz Kurz is recognised internationally as a leading economic theorist and a foremost historian of economic thought. This book pays tribute to hi...

Taken in conjunction the author’s earlier Industrial and Commercial Revolutions in Great Britain during the Nineteenth Century, this classic volume...

Economical questions indisputably occupy a central place in everyday life. In order to clarify these questions, people generally turn to those who ...

This book presents a detailed account of the co-operative practice of agriculture in medieval England, shedding much light on how medieval villager...

This study provides a comprehensive account and reconsideration of the contribution to political economy of Thomas Tooke (1774-1858). It clarifies ...

The papers brought together in this volume represent a decade of advances in the historical political economy of defence, dictatorship, and warfare...

The Englishwoman’s Review, which published from 1866 to 1910, participated in and recorded a great change in the range of possibilities open to wom...

Organized, readable, technically sound and comprehensive from both theoretical and empirical standpoints, this book summarizes a vast amount of ins...

This book is the first work dedicated to the key ideas of Nobel Laureate Ronald Coase on pollution and public goods with sustainable development in...

This book analyzes the important contributions of Rosa Luxemburg to economic theory as well as devoting some space to her background as a left soci...

A book which covers the key period in the history of actuarial science from the mid-17th century to the early 19th century. There are reprints of t...

Originally published in 1954 this volume looks at the difficulties encountered by the founders of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China ...

Richard Cobden (1804-65) rose from humble beginnings to become the leading advocate of nineteenth-century free-trade and liberalism. As a fierce op...

A book which covers the key period in the history of actuarial science from the mid-17th century to the early 19th century. There are reprints of t...

First published in 1940, this book suggested the basic principles upon which a new international economic order should be built at the end of the S...

Geoffrey Pilling’s treatment of this complex issue in political economy, first published in 1986, concentrates on a review of Keynes’ writings rath...

This independent and critical study in economic and social history is based on free access to the records of W.D. & H.O. Wills. Dr Alford trace...