Economic History

This book presents the economic heartbeat and institutional details that shaped Athenian society during the Classical period (508-323 BCE), employi...

Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, and Nikolai Bukharin were the three leaders of the Russian Revolution who shaped the new society most, both through t...

Bringing together renowned scholars in the field with younger researchers, this interdisciplinary study of the history of post-war industrial polic...

Port cities were the means through which cultural and economic exchange took place between continental societies and the maritime world. In examini...

Just the Facts Ma'am is the only book written from an economics perspective that addresses one of the most remarkable cases of the reversal of corr...

Monetary Policy and the Onset of the Great Depression challenges Milton Friedman and Anna Schwartz's now consensus view that the high tide of the F...

A rare insiders account of the inner workings of the Japanese economy, and the Bank of Japans monetary policy, by a career central banker   The Jap...

Although Latin America weathered the Great Depression better than the United States and Europe, the global economic collapse of the 1930s had a dee...

This book explores the development of coffee substitutes in nineteenth-century Sweden. In doing so, it considers the the threshold between the prei...

The second volume of The Cambridge Economic History of the Modern World explores the development of modern economic growth from 1870 to the present...

Color versions of select print images available on the Resources tab (or here: www.cambridge.org/heymans). This book shows how money emerged and s...

The first volume of The Cambridge Economic History of the Modern World traces the emergence of modern economic growth in eighteenth century Britain...

A powerful and counterintuitive argument that we should welcome the current slowdownof population growth, economies, and technological innovation T...

'Animal spirits' is a term that describes the instincts and emotions driving human behaviour in economic settings. In recent years, this concept ha...

Pack your cutlass and blunderbuss--it's time to go a-pirating! The Invisible Hook takes readers inside the wily world of late seventeenth- and earl...

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEARA FINANCIAL TIMES BEST ECON...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...