Economic History

For better or for worse, in recent times the rapid growth of international economic exchange has changed our lives. But when did this process of gl...

This is the first comparative and comprehensive account of occupational training before the Industrial Revolution. Apprenticeship was a critical pa...

How medieval Dutch society laid the foundations for modern capitalismThe Netherlands was one of the pioneers of capitalism in the Middle Ages, givi...

Commercial competition between Britain and Russia became entangled during the eighteenth century in Iran, the Middle East, and China, and disputes ...

This landmark research volume provides the first detailed history of entrepreneurship in Britain from the nineteenth century to the present. Using ...

This first comprehensive account of French revolutionary thought in the years between the crushing of France's last nineteenth-century revolution a...

In this book, Kenneth Hirth provides a comparative view of the organization of ancient and premodern society and economy. Hirth establishes that hu...

This book examines the evolution of fiscal capacity in the context of colonial state formation and the changing world order between 1850 and 1960. ...

The Economic Crisis and the State of Economics brings together leading economists from a diverse set of backgrounds and presents their take on how ...

A prime contemporary concern - how to maintain fair market relations - is addressed through this study of the regulation of bread prices. This was ...

In 1700, most composers were employees of noble courts or the church. But by the nineteenth century, Chopin, Schumann, Brahms, Verdi, and many othe...

In recent years, the persecution of the Kurds in the Middle East under ISIS in Iraq and Syria has drawn increasing attention from the international...

Thomas Robert Malthus (17661834) was a pioneer in demography, economics and social science more generally whose ideas prompted a new 'Malthusian' w...

This volume is a history of economics as it was interpreted, discussed and established as a discipline in the 20th century. It highlights the plu...

This study explores the organization, scale, complexity, and integration of Aztec commerce across Mesoamerica at Spanish contact. The aims of the b...

The industrial gases industry originated in 1886, when a London-based company began producing high-purity oxygen. Initially, purified oxygen was a ...

This book brings together a significant body of work by Tatsuya Sakamoto, a leading Japanesescholar of the history of social and economic thought, ...

Capitalism is central to our understanding of contemporary economic and political life and yet what does it really mean? If, as has now been shown ...

This book is a valuable companion for everyone who is interested in the historical context of the co-evolution of financial markets and information...

The historical response to bank crises has always been more regulation. A pattern emerges that some may find surprising: regulation often contribut...

In this incisive analysis of one of the most spectacular economic breakthroughs in the Deng era, Jean C. Oi shows how and why Chinese rural-based i...