Economic History

From precious jade articles to monumental stone arches, Huizhou salt merchants in Jiangnan lived surrounded by objects in eighteenth-century China....

In recent decades, Tokyo, London, and New York have been the sites of credit bubbles of historically unprecedented magnitude. Central bankers have ...

This is a major bibliographic research guide designed to assist scholars of South Asian history (India, Pakistan, and Nepal) in finding materials r...

In 1943, Lebanon gained its formal political independence from France; only after two more decades did the country finally establish a national cen...

As analysis of the revenue available to Qing garrisons in Xinjiang reveals, imperial control over the region in the eighteenth and nineteenth centu...

'It's often said that books are compulsory reading, but this book really is compulsory. You cannot understand slavery, or British Empire, without i...

In this expert insiders account of the savings and loan debacle of the 1980s, William Black lays bare the strategies that corrupt CEOs and CFOsin c...

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

How an antisemitic legend gave voice to widespread fears surrounding the expansion of private credit in Western capitalismThe Promise and Peril of ...

Written by fifteen leading academics from the Japan Society for International Development (JASID), this book undertakes a review of Japan's economi...

In the quarter century since its emergence from military rule and integration into the global economy, Bangladesh's economy has achieved high growt...

The true, unvarnished history of the town at the heart of Silicon Valley.Palo Alto is nice. The weather is temperate, the people are educated, rich...

This book examines the role of mercantile networks in linking Asian economies to the global economy. It contains fourteen contributions on East, So...

How technological advances and colonial fears inspired utopian geoengineering projects during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Fro...

As chairman of the Federal Reserve (1979-1987), Paul Volcker slayed the inflation dragon that was consuming the American economy and restored the w...

Trade, Circulation, and Flow in the Indian Ocean World is a collection which covers a long time span and diverse areas around the ocean.  Many of t...

There is little doubt that the French Revolution of 1789 changed the course of Western history. But why did the idea of civic equalitya distinctive...

Day-to-day struggles, triumphant success stories, and unique circumstances. A Quick Ting On: Black British Businesses takes you on an informative j...

This groundbreaking history explains how Nathan Mayer Rothschild rose from comparatively humble circumstances to become the founder of an extraordi...

When a new technology makes people ill, how high does the body count have to be before protectives steps are taken? This disturbing book tells a da...

The Foundations of Complex Evolving Economies seeks to offer an integrated analysis of the anatomy and physiology of the capitalist engine of gener...

Lobbying America tells the story of the political mobilization of American business in the 1970s and 1980s. Benjamin Waterhouse traces the rise and...

This book is the first substantial study in any language of one of revolutionary Russia's most distinguished and controversial engineers - Iurii Vl...

From the end of the nineteenth century until the onset of the Great Depression, Wall Street embarked on a stunning, unprecedented, and often bloody...

The United States has endured eleven recessions since the end of World War II, including the recession of 2007-2009. This book focuses on the perfo...

In War, Wine, and Taxes, John Nye debunks the myth that Britain was a free-trade nation during and after the industrial revolution, by revealing ho...

A powerful case that the economic shocks of the 1970s hastened both the end of the Cold War and the rise of neoliberalism by forcing governments to...

Winner of the 2021 Sara A. Whaley Prize of the National Women's Studies Association (NWSA)On May 1, 1954, striking banana workers on the North Coas...

In the centuries before Europeans crossed the Atlantic, social and material relations among the indigenous Guaraní people of present-day Paraguay w...

The untold story of how America once created the most successful economy the world has ever seen-and how we can do it again.The American economy gl...

Published in 2008 and winner of the 2011 Thomas E. Skidmore Prize, Paulo Fontes's Migration and the Making of Industrial São Paulo is a detailed so...

Finding Equilibrium explores the post-World War II transformation of economics by constructing a history of the proof of its central dogma--that a ...

Formerly prosperous cities across the United States, struggling to keep up with an increasingly global economy and the continued decline of post-wa...