Economic History

Spices, scents and silks were at the centre of world trade for millennia. Exotic luxuries such as cinnamon, ginger, pepper, saffron, clove, frankin...

This open access book examines the formation and sustainability of private credit networks in past societies, gathering a global range of case stud...

Using materials from archives, literature, and field research, this book chronicles the history of the evolution of Zhanqi Village in Sichuan Provi...

This book systematically addresses Bourdieus key ideas and concepts in the context of Marxist thought. In this book, Bourdieus central theoretical ...

Medium-Sized Cities in the Age of Globalisation provides a brand-new perspective on academic discussions of globalisation through exploring urban d...

What are the problems addressed by the growing field of global economic history? What debates and methodologies does it engage with? As Global Ec...

This book argues that the prevailing view of colonialism that it was a negative and destructive phenomenon needs to be rethought. It focuses on t...

Between Brexit, efforts to Make America great again, and ongoing appeals for patriotic consumption to boost economies, the intersection between nat...

The interrelationship among development, environment, and human needs is one of the key issues being faced by the world today. The Chilean economis...

How corporations used mass media to teach Americans that capitalism was natural and patriotic, exposing the porous line between propaganda and publ...

Analyses how bankruptcy was litigated within the court to gain a more nuanced understanding of early modern bankruptcy. This book examines cases i...

The frequency and repetition of economic crises over the last hundred years demands an analysis that allows us to discover the root causes of these...

The central theme in the work of F.A. Hayek was the problem of order in society, and his focus was epistemological: he was concerned with the const...

In barely three generations the Spanish diet has changed beyond recognition. The traditional concerns around nutritional health and scarcity have b...

There is a striking chronological parallel between Germanys transition from a post-Malthusian regime to modern economic growth and the formation of...

This title was first published in 2003. Bringing together contemporary innovation pattern theories inspired by the two original patterns developed ...

Originally published in 1970, this volume is a valuable source of extensive data concerning Scotlands railways and locomotives. Material that has a...

Since the Middle Ages, literature has portrayed the economic world in poetry, drama, stories and novels. The complexity of human realities highligh...