Economic History

Stalin's Quest for Gold tells the story of Torgsin, a chain of retail shops established in 1930 with the aim of raising the hard currency needed to...

Local Authority Borrowing (1985) sets out the history of local authorities activities as borrowers. The early attempts to finance the building of t...

Investigating the trajectories of economic nationalisms in Cold War Europe, this open access book explores the scope and limits of small (nation-)s...

Garcia de Ortas Colloquies on the Simples and Drugs of India (1563) was one of the first books to take advantage of the close relationship between ...

Lotteries in Colonial America explores lotteries in England and the American colonies in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. From the foundin...

The purpose of this collection is to bring together representative examples of the most recent work that is taking an understanding of children and...

This collection of chapters focuses on the regulation of the British economy in the long eighteenth century as a means to understand the synergies ...

Gambling is a fascinating subject which for many centuries has attracted public interest. Yet, despite its ubiquity, gambling (or gaming) leads a m...

Negotiating Transcultural Relations in the Early Modern Mediterranean is a study of transcultural relations between Ottoman Muslims, Christian subj...

In this book the author explores the various meanings assigned to goods sold retail from 1550 to 1820 and how their labels were understood. The fir...

The city is a place to find shelter, a market place, and an elevator for social mobility and success. But the city is also a place that frightens p...

This book is a wide-ranging exploration of the production of Victorian art autograph replicas, a paintings subsequent versions created by the same ...

Many important economic and political debates today refer to the nature and the role of the State: should governments intervene in the economy and ...

The early decades of the sixteenth century were a turbulent time for the Italian peninsula as competing centres of power struggled for political co...

In Search of Stability seeks to understand the economics of money through a narrative on the history of the rupee. The period delineated for study ...

Drawing upon an impressive range of international sources, this book explores the late-nineteenth century partnership between Bradford worsted manu...