Economic History

This revised edition of the original 1923 text first appeared in 1929, a decade after the end of WWI. The war left Great Britain burdened with debt...

People throughout the world are now commemorating the centenary of the start of the First World War. For historians of international business and f...

Economic inequalities have been perhaps the most enduring problem facing African Americans since the civil rights movement, despite the attention t...

In the troubled days before the American Civil War, both Northern protectionists and Southern free trade economists saw political economy as the k...

Since the Global Financial Crisis, economics has been under greater public scrutiny, revealing a crisis in the discipline. This represented a poten...

The long history of the racial wealth gap in America told through the stories of seven Black families who struggled to build wealth over multiple g...

A new account of how Haiti under French colonial rule became a violent sugar plantation stateIn the early eighteenth century, France turned to its ...

The years 1690–1727 represented a period of significant change for Scotland. It was a time of grand colonial endeavours and financial innovation, p...

The authors use a long-wave framework to examine the historical evolution of British industrial capitalism since the late-18th century, and present...

Benvenuto Olivieri was a Florentine banker active in Rome during the first half of the sixteenth century. A self made man without any great family...

Discover the fascinating story behind Rolex, the world’s most iconic luxury watch brand. In The making of a status symbol, acclaimed business histo...

This innovative new book is overtly and explicitly about female agency in eighteenth-century European towns. However, it positions female activity ...

Wongsurawat looks at the history of Thailand since the mid-nineteenth century and uses events to elucidate basic economic models and concepts. He s...

This book challenges the binary distinction of developed and underdeveloped in the categorization of any country while proposing to erase this bina...

Since its first appearance in 1925, Elizabethan Life in Town and Country (1961) has securely established itself both for the general reader and the...

In this classic analysis and refutation of Eric Williams's 1944 thesis, Seymour Drescher argues that Britain's abolition of the slave trade in 1807...

The nineteenth century saw the expansion of Western influence across the globe. A consular presence in a new territory had numerous advantages for ...

Bernie Sanders’ socialist advocacy in the United States, communist China’s economic successes and a Marxist revival are inspiring many to muse abou...

'This book flips your world upside down. Daniel Markovits argues that meritocracy isn't a virtuous, efficient system that rewards the best and brig...

The Civil War and Reconstruction changed the face of social welfare provision in the South as thousands of people received public assistance for th...

Discover the fascinating story behind Rolex, the world’s most iconic luxury watch brand. In The making of a status symbol, acclaimed business histo...

The Price of the Common Good offers a fresh perspective on economic prosperity and solidarity that emphasizes communal interests. There is more at ...

This volume reiterates the relevance of imperialism in the present, as a continuous arrangement, from the early years of empire-colonies to the pre...