Economic History

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...