Economic History

When the Fox Film Corporation merged with Twentieth Century Pictures in 1935, the company posed little threat to industry juggernauts such as Param...

An interpretative history of global urbanity in the 1920s and 1930s, from the vantage point of Bombay, London, and Shanghai, that follows the life ...

A fascinating retelling of the first banking and financial collapse in eighteenth-century France.   The Scottish economist John Law has been descri...

Like anything worthwhile the economic solution to the problems of the world wars had a long genesis. A major problem was the role of gold, another ...

The epic histories of the French Revolution, Enlightenment, and colonialism in the West Indies, told through the history of one family. The Labot...

The business of time explores the evolution of the global watch industry from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, offering a comprehensive h...

In a work of sweep and ambition, James Fichter explores how American trade proved pivotal to the evolution of capitalism in the United States and h...

To Come to a Better Understanding analyzes the cultural encounters of the medicine men and clergy meetings held on Rosebud Reservation in St. Franc...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERTHE TIMES SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR**Shortlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award**Picked as a Boo...

'This book is an excellent explanation of why capitalism is not just successful, but morally right' Elon Musk'A joyful counterblast... packed with ...

This book reflects China's experience, model and theory of successful inflation control. The idea of Stabilization of Expectations emphasized by th...

Historically, Spain has often been represented as a financial failure, a state limited by its absolutist monarchy and doomed to fiscal and financia...

Economic warfare during the Napoleonic era transformed international commerce; redirecting trade and generating illicit commerce. This volume re-ev...