Economic History

The Scottish miners experienced enormous changes during these sixty-five years. Enjoying a high degree of autonomy underground throughout the ninet...

Nearly two hundred years have passed since the birth of Karl Marx and continuing to this day the influence of his economic views, insights and theo...

Globalization is not an external force but a result of concrete business decisions made by millions of entrepreneurs and managers across the world....

This book considers Thorstein Veblens central preoccupation with the dark places of business enterprise, an integral part of the old institutional ...

How a group of intellectuals and policymakers transformed development economics and gave Latin America a new position in the world.After the Second...

Discover the captivating journey of the history of economic thought through the centuries with this comprehensive textbook. From the dawn of econom...

The big economic story of our times is not the Great Recession. It is how China and India began to embrace neoliberal ideas of economics and attrib...

In A History of Global Consumption: 1500 1800, Ina Baghdiantz McCabe examines the history of consumption throughout the early modern period using ...

An accessible account of the role of the modern university in the creation of economics During the late nineteenth century concerns about interna...

A novel theory of how technological revolutions affect the rise and fall of great powersWhen scholars and policymakers consider how technological a...

In the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars Britain found itself faced with a stagnant economy. Economist David Ricardo believed that the full re-integ...

It is widely known that at least in current societies - culture depends on money. Less attention has been given to the contrary fact: money also d...

This edited volume offers a systematic exploration of the relations between Western and Eastern scientists during the Cold War from the Eastern Eur...

Throughout history rivers have always been a source of life and of conflict. This book investigates the Central Commission for the Navigation of th...

This book investigates the historical, political, and economic circumstances of the world's smallest economies as key determinants influencing thei...

The recent banking crisis has brought into question the business model used by most large banks. This collection of essays explores the success of ...

Based on church and state records from the burgh of Aberdeen, this study explores the deeper social meaning behind petty crime during the Reformati...

On the 20th of January 1526, the Santiago left Lisbon bound for Africa with a cargo of brass and tin bracelets, round bells, barber basins and clot...

For those wishing to acquire knowledge on national development issues, this comprehensive compendium traverses a spectrum of subjects that the audi...