Economic History

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...

Did you know that the first paid holiday was introduced by Germany in 1903? Or that Frank L. Baum wrote The Wizard of Oz inspired by the march of O...

Following a series of crises of exceptional gravity, in 2008, the world economy entered a phase of high and growing indebtedness that fragilized it...

The Chairman of the State Planning Commission of the PRC, in 1955, attributed the economic problems countering the development of the socialist eco...

How the creation of a new banking infrastructure in the early twentieth century established the United States as a global financial powerThe domina...

An economic history of the Burton family of Norfolk, and their enslaved workers on the Chiswick sugar estate. While the Atlantic plantation econom...

In the 1960s and '70s, a diverse range of storefronts-including head shops, African American bookstores, feminist businesses, and organic grocers-b...

In 1979, Margaret Thatchers new government was faced with rampant double-digit inflation, rising unemployment and flatlining economic growth. In re...

This volume explores major theoretical and empirical themes in the study of the economic history of the Middle East.Despite the relative neglect of...

The Making of Modern Economics presents a bold and engaging history of economicsthe dramatic story of how the great economic thinkers built today's...

Utility is a key concept in the economics of individual decision-making. However, utility is not measurable in a straightforward way. As a result, ...

Although transformations in retailing are of tremendous current interest, there is no single broad-ranging account of the evolution of retailing fo...

This book seeks to bridge a gap in the historiography of Spain and Great Britain by arguing that while the eighteenth century witnessed periods of ...

How foreign lending weakens emerging nationsIn the nineteenth century, many developing countries turned to the credit houses of Europe for sovereig...