Economic History

During the twentieth century the financial sector became possibly the most regulated area of the economy in many advanced and developing countries....

Why in the pre-industrial period were some settlements resilient and stable over the long term while other settlements were vulnerable to crisis? I...

The coming of the railways signalled the transformation of European society, allowing the quick and cheap mass transportation of people and goods o...

Utilities have long been essential for societies, supplying basic services for nations, organizations and households alike. The proper functioning ...

Exploring the ways in which transatlantic relationships functioned in the nineteenth century to unsettle hierarchical models of gender, race, and n...

In 1644, the news that Antonio de Montezinos claimed to have discovered the Lost Tribes of Israel in the jungles of South America spread across Eur...

Going to Market rethinks womens contributions to the early modern commercial economy. A number of previous studies have focused on whether or not t...

Starting from the idea that economic relations are social relations, and every economic fact is first a social fact, this book explores one of the ...

Explore the key milestones in the field of economics broken down clearly and simply with The Economics Book.Learn about economics in this overview ...

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...