Economic History

The definitive guide to the history of economic thought, fully revised twenty years after first publicationRoger Backhouse's definitive guide takes...

A magisterial history of the astounding rise - and unimaginable fall - of America's most iconic corporationPerhaps no company reflects American ing...

A powerful examination of how property shaped the modern world - and why it now threatens the freedoms and stability it was meant to sustain.Proper...

A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST ECONOMICS BOOK OF THE YEARA THE ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR'Brilliantly conceived and enlightening at every turn' Lawrence Wr...

A sweeping account of three Gujarati Muslim trading communities, whose commercial success over nearly two centuries sheds new light on the history ...

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...

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...

One of the biggest challenges in the study of history is the unreliable nature of traditional archival sources which omit histories of marginalised...

'A classic' - Simon Kuper, Financial Times'Brilliant' - James O'Brien, author of How to be RightThe five laws that confirm our worst fears: stupid ...

During World War I and II, modern states for the first time experimented with feeding--and starving--entire populations. Within the new globalizing...

Gunnar Myrdal published his magnum opus, Asian Drama: An Inquiry into the Poverty of Nations, in 1968. He was deeply pessimistic about development ...

This volume presents a systematic and fresh interpretation of a mid-second-century AD papyrus - the so-called Muziris papyrus - which preserves on ...

Are profits and sustainability compatible? This book brings unique perspectives to this key debate by exploring the history of green entrepreneur...

In the fourteenth century, the Black Death killed as much as two thirds of Europe's population; in the fifteenth, the introduction of moveable-type...

In 1944, the Bretton Woods Conference ushered in a new international economic order. The World Bank emerged as one of the most powerful financial i...

Vidarbha a major cotton growing region in central India has been the epicentre of a protracted agrarian crisis. Chronic indebtedness and farmers' ...

From the Nobel Prizewinning economist and New York Times bestselling coauthor of Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism, candid reflections...

The surprising story of how declining marriage rates are driving many of the countrys biggest economic problems. In The Two-Parent Privilege, Melis...

Salt is a vital commodity. For many centuries it sustained life for Scots as seasoning for a diet dominated by grains (mainly oats), and for preser...

Essential reading for understanding the international economynow thoroughly updatedLucid, accessible, and provocative, and now thoroughly updated t...

This is the history of the East India Company and its enduring legacy as a corporation, dealing in exploitation and violence. The English East Ind...

A leading economic historian presents a new history of financial crises, showing how some led to greater globalization while others kept nations ap...

From the Introduction:   This book challenges the conventional wisdom about classical political economy and the rise of capitalism. It is written i...

This book examines the U.S economy from 1967 to 2011 and utilizes a new method to predict the future of the economy as far ahead as 2030. This new ...

Lord Byron described Greece as great, fallen, and immortal, a characterization more apt than he knew. Through most of its long history, Greece was ...