Economic History

In 1953, John Gallagher and Ronald Robinson shook the foundations of imperial history with their essay The Imperialism of Free Trade. They reshaped...

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When in their lives are innovators most creative, and why? This book summarizes more than two decades of research prompted by this question. The re...

This book presents, for the first time, a detailed transcription of Jacob Viner's Economics 301 class as taught in 1930. These lecture notes provid...

For a long time, everything revolved around bread. Providing more than half of peoples daily calories, bread was the life-source of Europe for cent...

Agents of European overseas empires involves contributors who specialise on often overlooked aspects of imperial endeavour: private European intere...

The edited collection offers a comprehensive and intricate exploration of Ottoman cash waqfs, extending its scope from the early modern era to the ...

In a work with significant implications for present-day economic reform in the Soviet Union, Paul Gregory examines Russian and Soviet economic hist...

In 1870 the Welsh ironmaster John James Hughes left his successful career in England and settled in the barren and underpopulated Donbass region of...

Financial fraud is a serious and seemingly intractable problem. Financial scandals regularly punctuate newspaper headlines and regulators and audit...

Other Canon Economics: Essays in the Theory and History of Uneven Economic Development brings together key essays on development economics from one...

One of the main motives for British imperialism in Africa was economic gain. This collection examines the ways in which Britain developed Africa, a...

This edition of over 600 letters written by or for the poor in the early nineteenth-century Cumbrian town of Kirkby Lonsdale provides a unique wind...

This edition of over 600 letters written by or for the poor in the early nineteenth-century Cumbrian town of Kirkby Lonsdale provides a unique wind...

As the financial crisis reached its climax in September 2008, the most important figure on the planet was Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke. Th...

In 1870 the Welsh ironmaster John James Hughes left his successful career in England and settled in the barren and underpopulated Donbass region of...

This edited collection sheds light on the complex nature of migratory movements through the lens of economic and social history. It addresses a var...

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...

Considering silk as a major force of cross-cultural interaction, this book examines the integration of silk production and consumption into various...

Adam Smith, in his The Theory of Moral Sentiments, largely left his readers to develop his argument's full implications. Many philosophers famously...

A dynamic social history of shadow capitalism spanning the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries Observers see free markets, the relentless pursu...

King Ruprecht (14001410) from the Palatine House of Wittelsbach is described in literature as a poor king. The Roman-German kings of the late Middl...

Since the 1950s, Warren Buffett and his partners have backed some of the twentieth century's most profitable, trendsetting companies. But how did t...

Debating the promises and limits of the new economic history, seventeen economists and economic historians look at Great Britain, from the peak of ...