Economic History

The Age of Revolutions has been celebrated for the momentous transition from absolute monarchies to representative governments and the creation of ...

This book, an in-depth study of Nationalist tariff policy, fundamentally challenges the widely accepted idea that the key to the Communist seizure ...

This Open Access book examines the long economic boom experienced in Ireland  between the late 1980s and 2007, analysing why this boom occurred. T...

Uncovers sources from the parish pauper to the gentlewoman to consider relationships with clothing across the social hierarchy in the long eighteen...

Economists agree about many things--contrary to popular opinion--but the majority agree about culture only in the sense that they no longer give it...

Lucid and damning an absorbing and infuriating tale of complicity, coverup and denial PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE, author of EMPIRE OF PAIN ...

Rosa Luxemburg, Oskar Lange and Micha? Kalecki made important contributions to twentieth century political economy that guided the thinking of thei...

The development of political economy as a philosophical preoccupation constitutes a defining feature of the Enlightenment, but no consensual agreem...

Recent discussion, academic publications and many of the national exhibitions relating to the Great War at sea have focussed on capital ships, Jutl...

Sir Arthur Lewis was the first development economist, the first Afro-Caribbean to hold a professorial chair at a British university and the first b...

Using an inter-disciplinary and global approach this book examines the different roles gold played in the international economy from the late 19th ...

This is the first collaborative biography of Hayek. Some of the world's most distinguished scholars will integrate the archival evidence with Hayek...

This book provides a historical narrative to tell the story of interwar German reparations - the debates, controversies and diplomacy surrounding t...

Leading experts on Kalecki have contributed special essays on what economists in the 21st century have to learn from the theories of Kalecki. Autho...

Understanding the American stock market boom and bust of the 1920s is vital for formulating policies to combat the potentially deleterious effects ...

Instant Economics pulls together all the pivotal economic knowledge and thought into one concise volume. Each page contains a discrete 'cheat sheet...

Die Arbeit widmet sich der Frage, wie eine Beschreibung von Marktszenen in vormoderner Literatur zu leisten ist, ohne diese im Spiegel moderner wir...

What does economics have to do with Christian origins? Why study such a connection? First of all, the New Testament makes many direct references to...

This is the first full-length study of Irish Ribbonism, tracing the development of the movement from its origins in the Defender movement of the 17...

The astonishing story of the Sassoons, one of the nineteenth century's preeminent commercial families and 'the Rothschilds of the East'The Sassoons...

The cartmenunskilled workers who hauled goods on one horsecartswere perhaps the most important labor group in early American cities. The forerunner...

Kristen Ghodsee and Mitchell A. Orenstein blend empirical data with lived experiences to produce a robust picture of who won and who lost in post-c...

Between the late fifteenth and early eighteenth centuries, the State of Muscovy emerged from being a rather homogenous Russian-speaking and Orthodo...

More than 25 experts from around the world have contributed to this unique and provocative book. In a series of illuminating short essays, each aut...

The period leading up to the Great Depression witnessed the rise of the economic forecasters, pioneers who sought to use the tools of science to pr...

Argues that the struggle over income, wealth, status and privilege-inequality-has been the principal, defining issue in human history and provides ...

Although modern neoliberalism was born at the Colloque Walter Lippmann in 1938, it only came into its own with the founding of the Mont Pèlerin Soc...

Long before Deng Xiaopings market-based reforms, commercial relationships bound the Chinese Communist Party to international capitalism and left la...

Danger Sound Klaxon! reveals the untold story of the Klaxon automobile horn, one of the first great electrical consumer technologies of the twenti...

How to sustain an international system of cooperation in the midst of geopolitical struggleCan the international economic and legal system survive ...

An engaging, solutions-oriented look at how cities and nations can better foster innovation and equality.   From San Francisco to Shanghai, many of...

An engaging, solutions-oriented look at how cities and nations can better foster innovation and equality.   From San Francisco to Shanghai, many of...

The Silver Empire is the first comprehensive account of how the Holy Roman Empire created a common currency in the sixteenth century. The problem...