Economic History

America's Switzerland, a companion volume to This Blue Hollow, is the first comprehensive history of Rocky Mountain National Park and its neighbori...

Human Capital in History brings together contributions from leading researchers in economic history, labor economics, the economics of education, a...

Until the early nineteenth century, political philosophy and economics were dining companions. Both took up fundamental questions of how we should ...

A Financial Times Best Book of the Year A must-read, with key lessons for the future.Thomas Piketty A groundbreaking examination of austeritys dark...

The economist and historian Deirdre Nansen McCloskey has been best known recently for her Bourgeois Era trilogy, a vigorous defense, unrivaled in s...

The economist and historian Deirdre Nansen McCloskey has been best known recently for her Bourgeois Era trilogy, a vigorous defense, unrivaled in s...

The third of October 2020 marked the 90th anniversary of the Brazilian Revolution of 1930. Although this event is recognized in Brazilian historiog...

The Cantelowe Accounts appear to offer the earliest evidence of an English merchant using Italian as a second language. They were written by John B...

In republican Colombia, salt became an important source of revenue not just to individuals, but to the state, which levied taxes on it and in some ...

The rapid emergence of China and India as prime locations for low-cost manufacturing has led some analysts to conclude that manufacturers in the o...

An engaging and enlightening account of taxation told through lively, dramatic, and sometimes ludicrous stories drawn from around the world and acr...

From a major British political thinker and activist, a passionate case that both the left and right have lost their faith in ordinary people and mu...

Monty is a dog, not a financial genius, but economics still shapes his everyday life. Over the course of seventeen walks, Dr Rebecca Campbell chew...

A thousand-year history of how Chinas obsession with silver influenced the countrys financial well-being, global standing, and political stabilityA...

The definitive history of pawnbroking in the United States from the nation's founding through the Great Depression, In Hock demonstrates that the p...

A comprehensive study of Britain's 250 richest people in history, from the time of William the Conqueror to the present. In this book, Philip Beres...

In this monumental study, acclaimed historian Frank Trentmann unfolds the extraordinary history that has shaped our material world, from late Ming ...

This book investigates what a case study of a northern market town and its rural hinterland can tell us about village differentiation, exploring ho...

A collection of writings and speeches by historian, political activist and former MP Hywel Francis. He celebrates the struggles of the working clas...

A penetrating critique tracing how under-regulated trading between European and U.S. banks led to the 2008 financial crisiswith a prescription for ...