Economic History

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...

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Anchored in the principles of free-market economics, neoliberalism emerged in the 1990s as t...

This book examines the impact of shipbuilding on the society of the Song Dynasty from multiple perspectives and points out the positive contributio...

THE BESTSELLING BIOGRAPHY OF THE NEW BRITISH PRIME MINISTER Required reading for anyone who has an i...

This book reassesses the actual effects of the Bubble Act, still popularly associated with the bursting of the South Sea Bubble. The book builds on...

Can today's city govern well if its citizens lack modern technology? How important is access to computers for lowering unemployment? What infrastru...

This book examines the cultural relations between the Spanish and Austrian Habsburg monarchies in the seventeenth century and explores the central ...

Japanese society believes they enjoy socio-economic equality. While industrialization tends to make gap between rich and poor, most of Japanese are...

This book explores the functioning of coal markets and their influence on ports and maritime economics since the second half of the nineteenth cent...

'A wry, rollicking, and provocative history' Michael Taylor, author of The Interest A thought-provok...

'A wry, rollicking, and provocative history' Michael Taylor, author of The Interest A thought-provok...

Continuing the thematic strand of the successful and proven British Library 100 Maps series, this new volume traces the fully international history...

In the 20th century, Ahmedabad was India's shock city. It was the place where many of the nation's most important developments occurred first and w...