Economic History

Contrary to existing economic analyses of the Weimar Republic, this book looks beyond the explanations of the individual events that characterized ...

Economic history has always emphasized the importance of long-distance trade in the emergence of modern financial markets, yet almost nothing is kn...

Capitalism is often held to be the best of all possible worlds, or even the only possible world, in which the market is underpinned by the highest ...

Ganz selbstverständlich bezahlen wir jeden Tag unsere Einkäufe mit Papiergeld oder mit der EC-Karte. Kaum machen wir uns Gedanken darüber, wie es s...

Economic and political uncertainty has brought the language of class especially discussion of the working class to a broad audience across schola...

Economic and political uncertainty has brought the language of class especially discussion of the working class to a broad audience across schola...

This book will take the reader on a journey through the economic thought of Europe, spanning from ancient Greece to the modern day. It explores the...

This monograph puts a focus on the fundamental role of timber, in the European industrialization process. This ties into analyzing the early stages...

Drawing on a detailed examination of Venetian commerce in the Middle Ages, this book explores the business practices and structures that enabled me...

The Market in Global International Society tracks the idea and practice of the market through both modern and premodern times, and its evolution as...

First published in 1988, The Mexican Economy presents a comprehensive survey of the Mexican economy and its problems and argues that the crisis has...

The Port (present-day Hà Tiên), situated in the Mekong River Delta and Gulf of Siam littoral, was founded and governed by the Chinese creole Mo cla...

The Port (present-day Hà Tiên), situated in the Mekong River Delta and Gulf of Siam littoral, was founded and governed by the Chinese creole Mo cla...

This book is the first to systematically examine the sources of medieval statistics. It will be useful as a handbook for researchers in financial a...

This book provides a comprehensive study of land property rights and transaction systems in late imperial China, specifically during the period of ...

An Analysis of the Development and Nature of Accounting Principles in Japan (1991) explores the historical development of accounting principles in ...

The Countryside: Planning and Change (1981) examines the relationship between policies and their actual effects on the countryside, throwing light ...

This book offers an in-depth study of German neoliberalism between 1924 and 1963, arguing that a neoliberal network was established in the interwar...

This book explains how Amsterdam financiers played a much more important role in financing the Louisiana Cession than they are credited for. Drawin...

In the years immediately after the Civil War, tens of thousands of former slaves deposited millions of dollars into the Freedmans Bank. African Ame...

From the Nobel Prizewinning economist and New York Times bestselling coauthor of Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism, candid reflections...