Economic History

Taking the new structural economics as the theoretical tools, this book obtains the maximum understanding of the history, development, current situ...

A sweeping intellectual history of the welfare states policy-in-waiting. The idea of a government paying its citizens to keep them out of povertyno...

National competitiveness has become a misnomer, as competitiveness is increasingly understood as a regional phenomenon and regions are not confined...

Struggling to free itself from a century of economic decline and stagnation, the town of San Miguel de Allende, nestled in the hills of central Mex...

Struggling to free itself from a century of economic decline and stagnation, the town of San Miguel de Allende, nestled in the hills of central Mex...

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

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...