Economic History

'A rallying cry for a deep rethink of how we build, buy and manage homes.' ARCHITECTS' JOURNAL'A calm analysis of the concept of property ownership...

A groundbreaking new history of the shared legacy of expulsion among Jews and Christian moneylenders in late medieval EuropeWinner of the Wallace K...

The concept of a megamachine - a closed system operating to a pre-established utilitarian purpose which results in the machinization of humanity h...

Charts the emergence and development of capitalism across the world from a variety of perspectives, providing a deep understanding of how capitalis...

This book presents an original interpretation of the building history of London in terms of its evolving political economy. Each of the seven ages ...

This book comprehensively examines the development of Brazilian agriculture by focusing on the crops which evolved from national products to intern...

As the second volume of a two-volume set on the Chinese economic history, this book investigates Chinese economic development since 1949, uncoverin...

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

Serving Aristocracy is the history of social negotiation and mobility in an early modern knowledge community, centred on the aristocratic De la Gar...

Serving Aristocracy is the history of social negotiation and mobility in an early modern knowledge community, centred on the aristocratic De la Gar...

The period from 1957 to 1988 was transformative for the international oil industry. The United Kingdon, home to two major oil companies, British Pe...

As it is today, the property market was a key and dynamic economic sector in Ancient Rome. Its study demands a deep understanding of Roman society,...

This book explores the early globalization of prostitution from the perspective of the Italian case. It is a story of prostitution, migration, and ...

Drawing on modern economic theory, this book provides new insights into the economic development of ancient economies and the sustainability of the...

This book offers a comparative and polycentric approach to the formation of global trade networks and goods that circumnavigated China, America, an...

This book analyzes the roots of one of the main human activities that can be developed in natural and agricultural ecosystems: tourism. Attention t...

This book sheds light on the roots of sustainability in the Iberian Peninsula that lie in the interrelations between shipbuilding and forestry from...

Getting divorced and remarried are now common practices in European societies, even if the rules differ from one country to the next. Civil marriag...

This handbook presents a systematic and comprehensive overview of economic sociology, an exemplary interdisciplinary field which draws on theoretic...

The Florentine traveler, merchant, and academician Filippo Sassetti was one of the premier economic thinkers of the late Renaissance. Well known fo...

What is a contract in Islam? Is it an aspect of Muslim religion or of secular life? How much has it changed over the centuries? Undertaking a searc...

An incisive account of the crucial role money played in the formation and development of British North America.  Promise to Pay follows Americas f...

Russia is rarely out of the news. This has been particularly true since it launched the largest war in Europe since World War II when it invaded Uk...