Economic History

In A History of Global Consumption: 1500 1800, Ina Baghdiantz McCabe examines the history of consumption throughout the early modern period using ...

An accessible account of the role of the modern university in the creation of economics During the late nineteenth century concerns about interna...

A novel theory of how technological revolutions affect the rise and fall of great powersWhen scholars and policymakers consider how technological a...

In the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars Britain found itself faced with a stagnant economy. Economist David Ricardo believed that the full re-integ...

It is widely known that at least in current societies - culture depends on money. Less attention has been given to the contrary fact: money also d...

This edited volume offers a systematic exploration of the relations between Western and Eastern scientists during the Cold War from the Eastern Eur...

Throughout history rivers have always been a source of life and of conflict. This book investigates the Central Commission for the Navigation of th...

This book investigates the historical, political, and economic circumstances of the world's smallest economies as key determinants influencing thei...

The recent banking crisis has brought into question the business model used by most large banks. This collection of essays explores the success of ...

Based on church and state records from the burgh of Aberdeen, this study explores the deeper social meaning behind petty crime during the Reformati...

On the 20th of January 1526, the Santiago left Lisbon bound for Africa with a cargo of brass and tin bracelets, round bells, barber basins and clot...

For those wishing to acquire knowledge on national development issues, this comprehensive compendium traverses a spectrum of subjects that the audi...

First published in 1905, these two volumes together reproduced the text of Rawlinson MS. B 408 from the Bodleian Library in two parts. They consist...

In this book the author explores the various meanings assigned to goods sold retail from 1550 to 1820 and how their labels were understood. The fir...

World exhibitions have been widely acknowledged as important sources for understanding the development of the modern consumer and urbanized society...

This title was first published in 2002. Debates about the desirability, feasibility and appropriate form of international economic regulation are n...

The economic backwardness of Latin America and the Caribbean has long been discussed, but seldom been the subject of such a wide-ranging quantitati...

Historians often view early modern Ireland as a testing ground for subsequent British colonial adventures further afield. McGrath argues against th...

First Published in 1988, Richard Dien Winfield's The Just Economy investigates what the economy should be, undertaking a normative inquiry ignored ...

This title was first published in 2000: This work provides a new insight into china's township and village enterprises (TVEs). It views the governa...

This title was first published in 2000: This work provides a new insight into china's township and village enterprises (TVEs). It views the governa...

This volume brings together a set of classic essays by Domenico Sella in which he reassesses the economic fortunes of Northern Italy, in particular...

By the late 1810s, a global revolution in cotton had remade the U.S.-Mexico border, bringing wealth and waves of Americans to the Gulf Coast while ...

This title was first published in 2002.In recent years scholars have begun to conceptualize the history of the Pacific Ocean as a subset of world h...

The fundamental role of Great Britain's economy in the international economic system in the century preceding the First World War is demonstrated b...

This title was first published in 2003. Economists have had increasing success in arguing the merits of market-based approaches to environmental pr...

First published in 1901, this volume emerged in the aftermath of the Russian invasion of Manchuria. Its author had been in charge of the British Co...

In the history of Russian economic ideas, a peculiar mix of anthropocentrism and holism provided fertile breeding ground for patterns of thought th...

This title was first published in 2002: There are few students of European economic history who will not have come across the writings of Derek H. ...

Published in 1997, this volume is a collection of seminal articles on a theme of central importance in the study of transport history, selected fro...

This book seeks to advance social economic analysis, economic methodology, and the history of economic thought in the context of twenty-first-centu...

The idea of transitions in Indian history emerged early when the term transition denoted shifts from one period to another. The notion of transitio...

Economists do more than merely describe an external economic world. They shape it in the image of their theories and models. This idea, following t...

In 1953, John Gallagher and Ronald Robinson shook the foundations of imperial history with their essay The Imperialism of Free Trade. They reshaped...

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

In this ambitious book Christian Petersen has taken a central topic in economic and social history and given it a new sweep and coherence. As the ...

This book provides an excellent resource for understanding the forces in international trade liberalization over two centuries that have brought us...

For the past 150 years, Western intellectuals have trumpeted contempt for capitalism and capitalists. They have written novels, plays, and manifest...

Economic Thought and History looks at the relationship between facts and thought in historical economic research, viewing it in the context of peri...

Bringing together essays from experts in a variety of disciplines, this collection explores two of the most important facets of life within the med...

In the autumn of 2014, thousands of people, young and educated in their majority, occupied the chief business district and seat of the government i...

Singapore under the ruling Peoples Action Party government has been categorized as a developmental state which has utilized education as an instrum...

By the late 1810s, a global revolution in cotton had remade the U.S.-Mexico border, bringing wealth and waves of Americans to the Gulf Coast while ...

At the end of the Second World War Germany was devastated; her cities lay in ruins, industrial output was minimal, the economy was in tatters and h...

Investment is the engine of growth. In consequence, the social welfare of the populace depends on the expectations of uncertain profitability as un...