Economic History

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

Against the backdrop of England's emergence as a major economic power, the development of early modern capitalism in general and the transformation...

Ocean of Trade offers an innovative study of trade, production and consumption across the Indian Ocean between the years 1750 and 1850. Focusing on...

The sequel to Eminent Economists, this book presents the ideas of some of the most outstanding economists of the past half century. The contributor...

Examines how and why the East India Company was transformed from a commercial trading company to an institution of government, and then abolished. ...

From an award-winning financial historian comes the gripping, character-driven story of venture capital and the world it madeInnovations rarely com...

Financial capitalism emerged in a recognisably modern form in late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Great Britain. Following the seminal work of...

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

Honorable Mention, 2024 Outstanding Published Book Award, Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity Section, American Sociological AssociationToday...

Honorable Mention, 2024 Outstanding Published Book Award, Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity Section, American Sociological AssociationToday...

An original account of the role of ethical dispositions in the development of prosperous commercial societies In Solving Social Dilemmas, Roger Co...

FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2022 THE TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2021 'A complex story, which Tooze tells with clarity and ve...

This is the first work on British textile exports to South America during the nineteenth century. During this period, textiles ranked among the mos...

This book brings together a number of previously published articles by Stanley L. Engerman and Kenneth L. Sokoloff. Its essays deal with difference...

In this major new study, Margherita Zanasi argues that basic notions of a free market economy emerged in China a century and half earlier than in E...

This is the first complete economic and social history of Brazil in the modern period in any language. It provides a detailed analysis of the evolu...

A landmark history of the world economic order, exploring how developing countries have fought to escape impoverishment   Over the past two decades...

This book explains why contemporary liberal democracies are based on historical templates rather than revolutionary reforms; why the transition in ...

A Great Deal of Ruin provides an accessible introduction to the enduring problem of financial crises. Illustrated with historical analysis, case st...

Between the end of the Middle Ages and the early nineteenth century, the long-established structures and practices of European trade, agriculture, ...

Modern economics tantalizes historians, promising them a set of simple verbal and mathematical formulas to explain and even retrospectively predict...

How does social spending relate to economic growth and which countries have got this right and wrong? Peter Lindert examines the experience of coun...

What explains the great variability in economic growth and political development across countries? Institutional and organizational analysis has de...

This book examines the environmental, political, and economic history of Ireland's marine fisheries from 1400 to 1600. It combines a wide range o...

'This book is an excellent explanation of why capitalism is not just successful, but morally right' Elon Musk'A joyful counterblast... packed with ...

One of the greatest hopes and expectations that accompanied American colonialism from its earliest incarnation was that Atlantic settlers would b...

Arnab Dey examines the intersecting role of law, ecology, and agronomy in shaping the history of tea and its plantations in British east India. He ...

A masterful account of the global Cold Wars decisive influence on Soviet economic reform, and the national decay that followed.What brought down th...

It is common wisdom that central banks in the postwar (19451970s) period were passive bureaucracies constrained by fixed-exchange rates and inflati...

This book offers the first comprehensive study of economic conditions and economic life in Roman cities during the late Republic and early Empire. ...

Trading floors are a thing of the past. Thanks to a combination of computers, high-speed networks and algorithms, millions of financial transaction...

Numerous aspects of the medieval economy are covered in this new collection of essays, from business fraud and changes in wages to the production o...