Economic History

Bringing together essays from experts in a variety of disciplines, this collection explores two of the most important facets of life within the med...

In the autumn of 2014, thousands of people, young and educated in their majority, occupied the chief business district and seat of the government i...

Singapore under the ruling Peoples Action Party government has been categorized as a developmental state which has utilized education as an instrum...

By the late 1810s, a global revolution in cotton had remade the U.S.-Mexico border, bringing wealth and waves of Americans to the Gulf Coast while ...

At the end of the Second World War Germany was devastated; her cities lay in ruins, industrial output was minimal, the economy was in tatters and h...

Investment is the engine of growth. In consequence, the social welfare of the populace depends on the expectations of uncertain profitability as un...

Why was early modern Europe the starting point of the economic expansion which led to the Industrial Revolution? What was the states role in this m...

This is a comprehensive biography of Clarence Charles Hatry, 1888-1965, an enigmatic and charismatic public figure. Hatry was the son of Jewish imm...

This is the first book to describe the early English woollens industry and its dominance of the trade in quality cloth across Europe by the mid-six...

Starting with Medici and Fugger and ending with Barings and Royal Bank of Scotland under neo-liberal de-regulation, the author gives an account of ...

Many books have addressed the economic and financial history of Hong Kong, and the imperialist conflicts in the key Chinese port-cities but very fe...

History and Economic Life offers students a wide-ranging introduction to both quantitative and qualitative approaches to interpreting economic hist...

Ever since Antiquity, reflections about economic problems have always been intertwined with questions relating to politics, ethics and religion. Fr...

Mexicans and those who follow Mexican affairs were optimistic in 2000 when the country experienced its first alternation in government (from the Pa...

Outskirts of Empire: Studies in British Power Projection investigates the substructure of Britains interests in the Near East and beyond during the...

Contemporary mainstream economists see social wealth as the sum of individual incomes, but for three centuries many economists saw wealth as consis...

A compelling account of how markets really govern themselves, and why they often baffle and outrage outsiders   One of the reasons many people beli...

The United States has two separate banking systems todayone serving the well-to-do and another exploiting everyone else. How the Other Half Banks c...

This fascinating study investigates the experience of English poverty between 1700 and 1900 and the ways in which the poor made ends meet. The phra...

For the Victorian working class, lodging in someone elses home was commonplace. Yet, despite their prevalence, lodgers and their householders have ...

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

What are the problems addressed by the growing field of global economic history? What debates and methodologies does it engage with? As Global Ec...