Economic History

Guiding the reader through the many guises of global economic history, this book uncovers its key issues, debates and subjects. With contributions ...

The ever tighter coupling of our food, water and energy systems, in the context of a changing climate is leading to increasing turbulence in the wo...

This title was first published in 1966

This book investigates the mixed economy of welfare that assisted socially marginalised people in interwar Europe, namely the state, local authorit...

This book, the second of two volumes, explores Indias economic development from the Gupta Empire (400AD) through to modern day India. The specific ...

Dieses Buch untersucht den Wandel der sozialen Bewegungen und der Wirtschaftseliten in Europa nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg. In den Jahren nach 1945 s...

The Financial Markets of Roman Egypt analyses some 4,367 financial transactions, leases, sales and loans, recorded on papyri in Roman Egypt in the ...

The gripping story of how the end of the Roman Empire was the beginning of the modern worldThe fall of the Roman Empire has long been considered on...

This book uses the experience of three generations of the Earle family to throw light on the social and economic history of Liverpool during its ri...

In 1940, Estonia was first occupied and then annexed by the Soviet Union. The process of Sovietization started immediately and was accompanied by a...

In this comprehensive work, David Eltis offers a two-thousand-year perspective on the trafficking of people, and boldly intervenes in the expansive...

The introduction of decimal currency in the UK and Ireland in February 1971 is a subject strangely neglected by historians of the period, despite i...

India's economic model underwent transformational change following independence in 1947. The country's first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, emba...

For two generations after independence, Americans viewed the Mediterranean as the new commercial frontier. From common sailors to wealthy merchants...

Merchant networks generated trade and the exchange of goods between the cities of early modern Europe. This collection of essays analyses these com...

The decline of the Mughal Empire, the political ascendency of the British East India Company, a number of revivalist powers (the Sikhs, the Maratha...

'Roderick Floud's ground-breaking study of the history, money, places and personalities involved in British gardens over the past 350 years gives f...

This book reconstructs the economic thought of Italian women who produced written sources, and of those whose only legacy was their actions. The co...

Shortlisted for the 2024 Financial Times & Schroders Business Book of the YearA revelatory account of the past, present, and future of economic...

The business of birth control is the first book-length study to examine contraceptives as commodities in Britain before the pill. Drawing on new ar...