Economic History

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...

Why was early modern Europe the starting point of the economic expansion which led to the Industrial Revolution? What was the states role in this m...

This is a comprehensive biography of Clarence Charles Hatry, 1888-1965, an enigmatic and charismatic public figure. Hatry was the son of Jewish imm...

This is the first book to describe the early English woollens industry and its dominance of the trade in quality cloth across Europe by the mid-six...

Starting with Medici and Fugger and ending with Barings and Royal Bank of Scotland under neo-liberal de-regulation, the author gives an account of ...

Many books have addressed the economic and financial history of Hong Kong, and the imperialist conflicts in the key Chinese port-cities but very fe...

History and Economic Life offers students a wide-ranging introduction to both quantitative and qualitative approaches to interpreting economic hist...

Ever since Antiquity, reflections about economic problems have always been intertwined with questions relating to politics, ethics and religion. Fr...

Mexicans and those who follow Mexican affairs were optimistic in 2000 when the country experienced its first alternation in government (from the Pa...

Outskirts of Empire: Studies in British Power Projection investigates the substructure of Britains interests in the Near East and beyond during the...

Contemporary mainstream economists see social wealth as the sum of individual incomes, but for three centuries many economists saw wealth as consis...

A compelling account of how markets really govern themselves, and why they often baffle and outrage outsiders   One of the reasons many people beli...

The United States has two separate banking systems todayone serving the well-to-do and another exploiting everyone else. How the Other Half Banks c...

This fascinating study investigates the experience of English poverty between 1700 and 1900 and the ways in which the poor made ends meet. The phra...

For the Victorian working class, lodging in someone elses home was commonplace. Yet, despite their prevalence, lodgers and their householders have ...

This groundbreaking resource moves us from theory to action with a practical plan for reparations.   A surge in interest in black reparations is ta...

What are the problems addressed by the growing field of global economic history? What debates and methodologies does it engage with? As Global Ec...

Spices, scents and silks were at the centre of world trade for millennia. Exotic luxuries such as cinnamon, ginger, pepper, saffron, clove, frankin...

This open access book examines the formation and sustainability of private credit networks in past societies, gathering a global range of case stud...

Using materials from archives, literature, and field research, this book chronicles the history of the evolution of Zhanqi Village in Sichuan Provi...

This book systematically addresses Bourdieus key ideas and concepts in the context of Marxist thought. In this book, Bourdieus central theoretical ...

Medium-Sized Cities in the Age of Globalisation provides a brand-new perspective on academic discussions of globalisation through exploring urban d...

What are the problems addressed by the growing field of global economic history? What debates and methodologies does it engage with? As Global Ec...

This book argues that the prevailing view of colonialism that it was a negative and destructive phenomenon needs to be rethought. It focuses on t...

Between Brexit, efforts to Make America great again, and ongoing appeals for patriotic consumption to boost economies, the intersection between nat...

The interrelationship among development, environment, and human needs is one of the key issues being faced by the world today. The Chilean economis...

How corporations used mass media to teach Americans that capitalism was natural and patriotic, exposing the porous line between propaganda and publ...

Analyses how bankruptcy was litigated within the court to gain a more nuanced understanding of early modern bankruptcy. This book examines cases i...

The frequency and repetition of economic crises over the last hundred years demands an analysis that allows us to discover the root causes of these...