Economic History

Multinational Enterprise and Transnational Regions offers an innovative approach to the study of the history of transnational economic regions. The...

Published in 1968. Interest in the Luddite machine-breaking and food riots of 1812 which took place in the North and Midlands continues unabated. P...

Published in 1968. Interest in the Luddite machine-breaking and food riots of 1812 which took place in the North and Midlands continues unabated. P...

Including 11 essays published over the last 15 years, this volume by Dennis O. Flynn and Arturo Giráldez concerns the origins and early developmen...

The Viking Age was a period of profound change in Scandinavia. As kingdoms were established, Christianity became the encompassing ideological and c...

For centuries artists, diplomats, and merchants served as cultural intermediaries in the Mediterranean. Stationed in port cities and other entrepôt...

Published in 1959: This book is the only detailed study of the origin of the German customs union and its history up to the establishment of the un...

Although colonies are often viewed as having been of crucial economic importance to Britains empire, those responsible for administering the coloni...

Medieval Networks in East Central Europe explores the economic, cultural, and religious forms of contact between East Central Europe and the surrou...

Jean-Baptiste Say (17671832) was one of the first great economists to have laid down the foundations of economic science. Author of the famous Trea...

From antiquity to our own time those interested in political economy have with almost no exceptions regarded the natural physical environment as a ...

Every time the economy goes through a period of crisis, Keynes name is called upon by economists and politicians from diverse backgrounds. However,...

Transportation Network Companies and Taxis: The Case of Seattle is a modern economic case history and thorough analysis of the devastating impact o...

There has been much discussion about the origin of marketing and marketing thought, and whether it was truly American in origin. Nevertheless, it i...

Karl Popper and Friedrich von Hayek are remembered as two of the twentieth centurys greatest proponents of open society. However, over the years, H...

The theory of costs is a cornerstone of economic thinking, and figures crucially in the study of human action and society. From the first day of a ...

Henry Hellers short account of the history of capitalism combines Marxs economic and political thought with contemporary scholarship to shed light ...

People throughout the world are now commemorating the centenary of the start of the First World War. For historians of international business and f...

Grounded in the literary history of early modern England, this study explores the intersection of cultural attitudes and material practices that sh...

On the 20th of January 1526, the Santiago left Lisbon bound for Africa with a cargo of brass and tin bracelets, round bells, barber basins and clot...

Adam Smiths contribution to economics is well-recognised but in recent years scholars have been exploring anew the multidisciplinary nature of his ...

This book focuses on early examples of women who may be said to have anticipated, in one way or another, modern professional and/or career-oriented...

The Challenge of Labour (1980) explains the changing forms of labours relationship with British society during the period of 1850 to 1930 as the e...

Early Modern Knowledge Societies as Affective Economies researches the development of knowledge economies in Early Modern Europe. Starting with the...