Economic History

This title was first published in 2002: There are few students of European economic history who will not have come across the writings of Derek H. ...

Published in 1997, this volume is a collection of seminal articles on a theme of central importance in the study of transport history, selected fro...

This book seeks to advance social economic analysis, economic methodology, and the history of economic thought in the context of twenty-first-centu...

The idea of transitions in Indian history emerged early when the term transition denoted shifts from one period to another. The notion of transitio...

Economists do more than merely describe an external economic world. They shape it in the image of their theories and models. This idea, following t...

In 1953, John Gallagher and Ronald Robinson shook the foundations of imperial history with their essay The Imperialism of Free Trade. They reshaped...

Since the Global Financial Crisis, economics has been under greater public scrutiny, revealing a crisis in the discipline. This represented a poten...

In this ambitious book Christian Petersen has taken a central topic in economic and social history and given it a new sweep and coherence. As the ...

This book provides an excellent resource for understanding the forces in international trade liberalization over two centuries that have brought us...

For the past 150 years, Western intellectuals have trumpeted contempt for capitalism and capitalists. They have written novels, plays, and manifest...

Economic Thought and History looks at the relationship between facts and thought in historical economic research, viewing it in the context of peri...

Bringing together essays from experts in a variety of disciplines, this collection explores two of the most important facets of life within the med...

In the autumn of 2014, thousands of people, young and educated in their majority, occupied the chief business district and seat of the government i...

Singapore under the ruling Peoples Action Party government has been categorized as a developmental state which has utilized education as an instrum...

By the late 1810s, a global revolution in cotton had remade the U.S.-Mexico border, bringing wealth and waves of Americans to the Gulf Coast while ...

At the end of the Second World War Germany was devastated; her cities lay in ruins, industrial output was minimal, the economy was in tatters and h...

Investment is the engine of growth. In consequence, the social welfare of the populace depends on the expectations of uncertain profitability as un...

Why was early modern Europe the starting point of the economic expansion which led to the Industrial Revolution? What was the states role in this m...

This is a comprehensive biography of Clarence Charles Hatry, 1888-1965, an enigmatic and charismatic public figure. Hatry was the son of Jewish imm...

This is the first book to describe the early English woollens industry and its dominance of the trade in quality cloth across Europe by the mid-six...

Starting with Medici and Fugger and ending with Barings and Royal Bank of Scotland under neo-liberal de-regulation, the author gives an account of ...

Many books have addressed the economic and financial history of Hong Kong, and the imperialist conflicts in the key Chinese port-cities but very fe...

History and Economic Life offers students a wide-ranging introduction to both quantitative and qualitative approaches to interpreting economic hist...

Ever since Antiquity, reflections about economic problems have always been intertwined with questions relating to politics, ethics and religion. Fr...