Economic History

A powerful new understanding of global currency trends, including the rise of the Chinese yuanAt first glance, the history of the modern global eco...

A fresh look at how three important twentieth-century British thinkers viewed capitalism through a moral rather than material lensWhats wrong with ...

Historical Studies in Industrial Relations was established in 1996 by the Centre for Industrial Relations, Keele University, to provide an outlet f...

A new account of the Mediterranean economy in the 10th to 12th centuries, forcing readers to entirely rethink the underlying logic to medieval econ...

Since the days of Adam Smith, Mercantilism has been a hotly debated issue. Condemned at the end of the 18th century as a false system of economic t...

**Shortlisted for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award***Longlisted for the Wainwright Conservation Writing Prize*Pick...

Roman Inequality explores how in Rome in the first and second centuries CE a number of male and female slaves, and some free women, prospered in bu...

Angeliki Laiou (1941-2008), one of the leading Byzantinists of her generation, broke new ground in the study of the social and economic history of ...

While many have interpreted the cooperative movement as propagating a radical alternative to capitalism, Cooperative Rule shows that in the late Br...

While many have interpreted the cooperative movement as propagating a radical alternative to capitalism, Cooperative Rule shows that in the late Br...

Merchant colonies were a significant factor for economic growth in Europe during the early modern period. The essays in this collection look at mer...

The global financial crisis of 2008 was largely unpredicted. If economic theory has a role to play in predicting future catastrophes then the metho...

The first global history of the epic early days of the iron railway   Railways, in simple wooden or stone form, have existed since prehistory. But ...

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

A major, new, and comprehensive look at six decades of macroeconomic policies across the region What went wrong with the economic development of La...

Taking French participation in the Seven Years War as a case study, this book examines the effects of war on the economy and on government finance,...

How the rise of the West was a temporary exception to the predominant world orderWhat accounts for the rise of the state, the creation of the first...

A wonderful blend of politics and economics, micro and macro, past and present in an accessible narrative (The Washington Post), Global Capitalism ...

Lewis examines the complex combinations of British and Argentine forces involved in the rapid development of modern Argentina after its former past...

During the 2008 presidential campaign over 4,000 students gathered at the University of Michigan to hear Republican candidate Ron Paul speak. As he...

The unknown history of economic conservatism in India after independenceNeoliberalism is routinely characterized as an antidemocratic, expert-drive...

The book is based on Arabic sources, documents in archives of centers of Levantine trade, and material from the files of the firm of Francesco Dati...

While many associate the concept commonly referred to as the 'military-industrial complex' with President Dwight D. Eisenhower's 1961 farewell addr...

After the fall of the Iron Curtain, people across the former socialist world saw their lives transformed. In just a few years, labor markets were c...

After the fall of the Iron Curtain, people across the former socialist world saw their lives transformed. In just a few years, labor markets were c...