Economic History

How a massive agricultural reform movement led by northern farmers before the Civil War recast Americans' relationships to market forces and the st...

In Out of Stock, Dara Orenstein delivers a nuanced, ambitious, and engrossing account of that most generic and underappreciated site in the history...

Originally published in 1926, this translation of Engels’ account of the Peasant War in fourteenth Century Germany explores the social and economic...

‘Big data’ is now readily available to economic historians, thanks to the digitisation of primary sources, collaborative research linking different...

First published in English 1929, this is a reisssue of the nineteenth edition of Othmar Spann's classic history of economic thought, which is stong...

First published in 1927, Hobson’s treatise on industrial conflict analyses the nature and causes of industrial disputes with the aim of finding an ...

The reinvention of art-history during the 1980s has provided a serious challenge to the earlier formalist and connoisseurial approaches to the disc...

The Maastricht Treaty in 1992 was based on neoliberal ideas of a market-driven European economy and democracy, and continues to be seen as a step t...

Today the Brazilian state of São Paulo is one of the world’s most advanced agricultural, industrial, and urbanized regions. Its historical evolutio...

This wholly original reassessment of critical issues in modern Chinese history traces social, economic, and ecological change in inland North China...

First published in 1931, this is an attempt by the great economist J. A. Hobson to analyse the relations between economics and religion. After cons...

From the wild swings of the stock market to the online auctions of eBay to the unexpected twists of the world's post-Communist economies, markets h...

How did the United States become the twentieth century's dominant economy? What is special about America and the American way of capitalism, that f...

Wilhelm Abel's study of economic fluctuations over a period of seven hundred years has long been established as a core text in European agricultura...

In its more than 65 years of existence, the International Monetary Fund has evolved from a small, obscure international agency, with new and uncert...

Under the impressive editorship of Warren Samuels et al, this book addresses the state of the history of economic thought today. An important contr...

This two volume Handbook contains chapters on the main areas to which Post-Keynesians have made sustained and important contributions. These includ...

This classic volume, first published in 1928, is a comprehensive introduction to all aspects of the Industrial Revolution. Arranged in three distin...

This is an account of how the daily lives of ordinary peoples were changed, profoundly and permanently, by these three momentous decades 1914-1945....

The development of the Mexican financial system as it has related to the remarkable growth of the Mexican economy is examined in this book. Belie...

In recent years, the focus of historians of economic thought has changed to also include the ideas and practices of contemporary economists. This h...

It is often asserted that the ruling elite in Western capitalist economies now consists of liberal intellectuals and their media sympathisers. By c...

World War II was the largest and most devastating war in modern history with far-reaching consequences. The single most important campaign was the ...