Economic History

A beautifully illustrated and unique history of the rosethe queen of flowersin art, medicine, cuisine, and moreFrom noted rosarian Peter Kukielski ...

A pathbreaking history of art that uses digital research and economic tools to reveal enduring inequities in the formation of the art historical ca...

This volume brings together historians, economists, political scientists, and anthropologists to present a global perspective on the new forms of l...

Renaissance map-makers produced ever more accurate descriptions of geography, which were also beautiful works of art. They filled the oceans Europe...

The first electronic communication network transformed language, distance, and time. This book researches the telegraph system of the British India...

Deirdre Nansen McCloskey's latest meticulous work examines how economics can become a more human science. Economic historian Deirdre Nansen McClosk...

From the late nineteenth century to the eve of World War II, Americas experts on Russia watched as Russia and the Soviet Union embarked on a course...

In this richly detailed and eye-opening book, Rick Wartzman chronicles the erosion of the relationship between American companies and their workers...

The Long Twentieth Century traces the relationship between capital accumulation and state formation over a 700-year period. Arrighi argues that cap...

During the century after 1750, Great Britain absorbed much of the world's supply of gold into its pockets, cupboards, and coffers when it became th...

Elite Networks presents a new explanatory factor behind the persistence of income inequality: extractive political power. Elite networks are inf...

Explores the maritime history of Bristol, a leading slave port in the eighteenth century Delves into the hazards of the slave trade, its recruitm...

Analyses data from the Bristol Port Books to rewrite the history of trade in Bristol, including the city's early involvement with the slave trade. ...

Unable to analyse the dynamics of specific forms of social labour in the US, most US civil war historians have ignored its deep social roots. To se...

In a food industry shaped by the abundance, cheapness, and convenience that giant corporations can offer, small-­scale ventures struggle to survive...

This book explores the life of the man whom even his critics acknowledged was one of the world's most significant Communist economists. From his ou...

This book accounts for the work done around the two central aspects of Piero Sraffa's contribution to economic analysis, namely the criticism of th...

This is an intellectual biography of G.L.S. Shackle, economic theorist, philosopher, and historian of economic theory. It explores how Shackle chal...