Economic History

A new edition of Kaplans landmark study on eighteenth-century French political economy, reissued with a new Foreword by Sophus A. Reinert. Based on...

In The Global Financial Crisis, contributors argue that the complexity of the Global Financial Crisis challenges researchers to offer more comprehe...

An illuminating history of Americas original credit market.  The Continental Dollar is a revelatory history of how the fledgling United States paid...

This is a coordinated presentation of the economic basis of revolutionary change in 16th- and early-17th century England, addressing a crucial but ...

A detailed historical look at how copyright was negotiated and protected by authors, publishers, and the state in late imperial and modern ChinaIn ...

This book provides new insights into how theatre responded to changing economic practices and structures. It reviews discourses on household manage...

Months before the end of World War II, a committee of economists and other professionals commissioned by the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs b...

The trade in books has always been and remains an ambiguous commercial activity, associated as it is with literature and the exchange of ideas. Thi...

John R. Commons is one of the most significant figures in the development of American economics. One of the founders of the Institutional school, C...

This book offers a view of shifts in labour relations in various parts of the world over a breathtaking span, from 1500 to 2000, with a particular ...

The forgotten history of the liberal radicals, socialist internationalists, feminists, and Christians who envisioned free trade as the necessary pr...

It has often been assumed that the subjects of the Ottoman sultans were unable to travel beyond their localities - since peasants needed the permis...

Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology (RHETM) is a book series dedicated to an interdisciplinary approach to a broad range of...

Emerging relatively unscathed from the banking crisis of 2008, China has been viewed as a model of both rampant success and fiscal stability. But b...

Anglo-American relations, the so-called Special Relationship, reached a new era with the rise of New Labour and the New Democrats in the late-1980s...

Volume 31 of Research in Economic History (REHI) is forthcoming in April 2015. REHI is a peer-reviewed book series published once a year. We cover ...

Explores the variety of legal and regulatory regimes that existed in Western Europe to control labour and how workers experienced those controls. ...

Economists in the Cold War is an account of the economic drivers and outcomes of the Cold War, told through the stories of seven international econ...

Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology is an annual research series which presents materials in two fields, both broadly consi...

Volume 41A of Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology features a symposium on Religion, the Scottish Enlightenment, and the Ris...

Volume 30 contains articles on the economic history of Europe and the U.S. including Democratization and Central Government Spending, 1870-1938: Em...

Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology is an annual research series which presents materials in two fields, both broadly consi...

Vilfredo Pareto's Manual of Political Economy is a 'classic' study in the history of economic thought for many reasons, the most noteworthy of whic...

What was it like to be a woman in service in early modern England? Drawing on evidence recorded in church court testimony, Mansell excavates experi...

The current consensus economic model, the neoclassical synthesis, depends on aprioristic assumptions that are shown to be invalid when tested again...

The Dutch and English East India Companies were formidable organizations that were gifted with expansive powers that allowed them to conduct diplom...

Microeconomic Principles and Problems offers a comprehensive introduction to all major perspectives in modern microeconomics, including mainstream ...

A detailed historical look at how copyright was negotiated and protected by authors, publishers, and the state in late imperial and modern ChinaIn ...

Commodities provide a lens through which local and global histories can be understood and written. The study of commodity history follows these goo...

A political economy approach to prehistory offers a robust means to understand different pathways to complexity. Why do states with extreme inequal...

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

The first comprehensive study of Pliny the Elders economic thoughtand its implications for understanding the Roman Empires constrained innovation a...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...