Economic History

A New York Times BestsellerAn NPR Best Book of the YearThe epic successor to one of the most important books of the century: at once a retelling of...

A mind-blowing tour de force that unwraps the myriad objects of addiction that surround usIntelligent, incisive, and sometimes grimly entertaining....

The new path for economic development that India must create The whole world has a stake in Indias future, and that future hinges on whether India ...

In the archive of Verrazzano Castle in Greve in Chianti, Professor Stefaan Missinne, discoverer of the da Vinci Globe dating from 1504, stumbled up...

Trading Power traces the successes and failures of a generation of German political leaders as the Bonn Republic emerged as a substantial force in ...

During the interwar period, J.P. Morgan was the most important bank in the world and at the crossroads of US politics, international relations and ...

Taxation in Colonial America examines life in the thirteen original American colonies through the revealing lens of the taxes levied on and by the ...

In the eighteenth century, Glasgow and its outports became the dominant force in the highly lucrative tobacco commerce from the Americas to Europe....

The untold story of the role of humanitarian NGOs in building the neoliberal order after empireAfter India gained independence in 1947, Britain rei...

In 1611, the seventeen-year-old Gustav Adolf ascended the throne of Sweden. Before the new king could sit on his throne, however, he faced a disast...

Warren Buffett-widely considered the most successful investor of all time-has repeatedly acknowledged Benjamin Graham as the primary influence on h...

Work and labour are fundamental to an understanding of Roman society. In a world where reliable information was scarce and economic insecurity loom...

This accessible and insightful textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the economics of prehistory. By presenting a chronological account...

Was the Soviet Union a superpower? Red Globalization is a significant rereading of the Cold War as an economic struggle shaped by the global econom...

The rise of capitalism to global dominance is still largely associated by both laypeople and Marxist historians with the industrial capitalism th...

A Nobel Prizewinning economist tells the remarkable story of how the world has grown healthier, wealthier, but also more unequal over the past two ...

British country houses have experienced a renaissance since the early 1970s. A new accord is needed today, recognising the increasingly contested c...

This innovative book hones in on key elements of Marx's vast oeuvre, focusing on his contribution to social theory. Themes addressed include: the d...

The rise of capitalism to global dominance is still largely associated by both laypeople and Marxist historians with the industrial capitalism th...

Land and labour provides the first full-length history of the Potters Emigration Society, the controversial trade union scheme designed to solve th...

Zwischen den späten 1930er und den frühen 1950er Jahren durchlief die Wirtschaftsordnung der böhmischen Länder einen Wandel von der Marktwirtschaft...

The United Kingdom was the last major nation-state in the world to adopt decimal currency, 50 years ago in 1971. Why was it so slow to do so? What ...

Canadas social, economic, political, and environmental impacts on the Western Hemisphere have been largely overlooked by historians and other socia...

'A hymn to hardware, charming, lyrical' - The Sunday Times, BOOK OF THE WEEK'A paean to DIY' - The Times'Strung together very agreeably, with dry w...

Mexico is the sixteenth largest economy in the world and Latin Americas biggest exporter and importer. Despite the countrys relative macroeconomic ...

Elite Networks presents a new explanatory factor behind the persistence of income inequality: extractive political power. Elite networks are infor...