Economic History

This is a major bibliographic research guide designed to assist scholars of South Asian history (India, Pakistan, and Nepal) in finding materials r...

In 1943, Lebanon gained its formal political independence from France; only after two more decades did the country finally establish a national cen...

As analysis of the revenue available to Qing garrisons in Xinjiang reveals, imperial control over the region in the eighteenth and nineteenth centu...

'It's often said that books are compulsory reading, but this book really is compulsory. You cannot understand slavery, or British Empire, without i...

In this expert insiders account of the savings and loan debacle of the 1980s, William Black lays bare the strategies that corrupt CEOs and CFOsin c...

This groundbreaking resource moves us from theory to action with a practical plan for reparations.   A surge in interest in black reparations is ta...

How an antisemitic legend gave voice to widespread fears surrounding the expansion of private credit in Western capitalismThe Promise and Peril of ...

Written by fifteen leading academics from the Japan Society for International Development (JASID), this book undertakes a review of Japan's economi...

In the quarter century since its emergence from military rule and integration into the global economy, Bangladesh's economy has achieved high growt...

The true, unvarnished history of the town at the heart of Silicon Valley.Palo Alto is nice. The weather is temperate, the people are educated, rich...

This book examines the role of mercantile networks in linking Asian economies to the global economy. It contains fourteen contributions on East, So...

How technological advances and colonial fears inspired utopian geoengineering projects during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Fro...

As chairman of the Federal Reserve (1979-1987), Paul Volcker slayed the inflation dragon that was consuming the American economy and restored the w...

Trade, Circulation, and Flow in the Indian Ocean World is a collection which covers a long time span and diverse areas around the ocean.  Many of t...

There is little doubt that the French Revolution of 1789 changed the course of Western history. But why did the idea of civic equalitya distinctive...

Day-to-day struggles, triumphant success stories, and unique circumstances. A Quick Ting On: Black British Businesses takes you on an informative j...

This groundbreaking history explains how Nathan Mayer Rothschild rose from comparatively humble circumstances to become the founder of an extraordi...

When a new technology makes people ill, how high does the body count have to be before protectives steps are taken? This disturbing book tells a da...

The Foundations of Complex Evolving Economies seeks to offer an integrated analysis of the anatomy and physiology of the capitalist engine of gener...

Lobbying America tells the story of the political mobilization of American business in the 1970s and 1980s. Benjamin Waterhouse traces the rise and...

This book is the first substantial study in any language of one of revolutionary Russia's most distinguished and controversial engineers - Iurii Vl...

From the end of the nineteenth century until the onset of the Great Depression, Wall Street embarked on a stunning, unprecedented, and often bloody...