Economic History

The British railway network was a monument to Victorian private enterprise. Its masterpieces of civil engineering were emulated around the world. B...

The south-eastern tip of continental Europe was a major focus of creative energy in the second half of the first millennium BC. As the bridgehead b...

As the world's political and economic leaders struggle with the aftermath of the Financial Debacle of 2008, this book asks the question: have finan...

Exploring the role of credit is vital to understanding any economy. In the past two decades historians of many European regions have become increas...

This history of the global securities market is the product of over 30 years of research by one of the world's foremost financial historians. It co...

State, Economy and the Great Divergence provides a new analysis of what has become the central debate in global economic history: the 'great diverg...

This book discusses the history of economic theories, drawing largely from periodical literature, which is often hard to obtain. The book is divid...

Taiwan is a classic case of export-led industrialization. But unlike South Korea and Japan, where large firms have been the major exporters, before...

This volume illuminates and critically assesses Paul A. Samuelson's voluminous and groundbreaking contributions to the field of economics. The volu...

For most of its history Europe was a thoroughly average part of the world: poor, uncouth, technologically and culturally backward. By contrast, Chi...

London became an international center for import and export trade in the late Middle Ages. The export of wool, the development of luxury crafts and...

Although trade connects distant people and regions, bringing cultures closer together through the exchange of material goods and ideas, it has not ...

The Low Countries -- an area roughly embracing the present-day Netherlands and Belgium -- formed a patchwork of varied economic and social developm...

China has undergone a remarkable transition over the past thirty years from a centrally-planned economy to a more market oriented one. The transfor...

Canal construction played a significant role in the rise of industrial America opening up new markets, employing an army of workers, and initiating...

London became an international center for import and export trade in the late Middle Ages. The export of wool, the development of luxury crafts and...

This book provides the first comprehensive and authoritative account of the events leading up to the UK seeking a massive loan from the IMF in 1976...

Victorian Britain offered to the globe an economic structure of unique complexity. The trading nation, at the heart of a great empire, developed th...

This comparative study of urban poverty is the first to chart the irregular pulse of poverty’s encounters with officialdom. It exploits an unusual...

This significant work by a prominent medievalist focuses on the period of transition between 1250 and 1550, when the wealth and power of the great ...

Professor Noonan here sets out to examine what Islamic silver coins (dirhams) reveal about the great trade between the Islamic world, European Russ...

This is the first book to explore the causes of the decline of British manufacturing in the 20th century by focusing on the troubled relationship b...

From assembly line to call centre, this volume charts the immense transformation of work and pay across the 20th century and provides the first lab...

Although the Roman empire was one of the longest lasting in history, it was never ideologically conceived by its rulers or inhabitants as a territo...

The institutions of the middle ages are generally seen as tradition-bound; Monks and Markets challenges this assumption. Durham's outstanding archi...

From assembly line to call centre, this volume charts the immense transformation of work and pay across the 20th century and provides the first lab...

Investment Banking: Institutions, Politics, and Law provides an economic rationale for the dominant role of investment banks in the capital markets...

Banking historiography often does not sufficiently take into account bankers’ deliberations of their decision making, but rather limits investigati...

This history of the global securities market is the product of over 30 years of research by one of the world's foremost financial historians. It co...

Set in the context of the dramatic increases in the price of oil and gas which consumers all over the world have had to endure since 2000, this boo...

This lively and original book changes the way we see globalization and the knowledge economy. Creativity, exchange and the open flow of ideas have ...

This timely book provides in-depth analytical comparison of the nineteenth century evolution of the American single market with corresponding polit...

A distinguished international group of historians, anthropologists, and sociologists examines the production, processing, and marketing of coffee. ...

This significant new work by a prominent medievalist focusses on the period of transition between 1250 and 1550, when the wealth and power of the g...

In Merchants and Empire, Cathy Matson examines the economic ideas and behavior of New York City's commercial wholesalers, especially the middling ...