Economic History

Instant Economics pulls together all the pivotal economic knowledge and thought into one concise volume. Each page contains a discrete 'cheat sheet...

Die Arbeit widmet sich der Frage, wie eine Beschreibung von Marktszenen in vormoderner Literatur zu leisten ist, ohne diese im Spiegel moderner wir...

What does economics have to do with Christian origins? Why study such a connection? First of all, the New Testament makes many direct references to...

This is the first full-length study of Irish Ribbonism, tracing the development of the movement from its origins in the Defender movement of the 17...

The astonishing story of the Sassoons, one of the nineteenth century's preeminent commercial families and 'the Rothschilds of the East'The Sassoons...

The cartmenunskilled workers who hauled goods on one horsecartswere perhaps the most important labor group in early American cities. The forerunner...

Kristen Ghodsee and Mitchell A. Orenstein blend empirical data with lived experiences to produce a robust picture of who won and who lost in post-c...

Between the late fifteenth and early eighteenth centuries, the State of Muscovy emerged from being a rather homogenous Russian-speaking and Orthodo...

More than 25 experts from around the world have contributed to this unique and provocative book. In a series of illuminating short essays, each aut...

The period leading up to the Great Depression witnessed the rise of the economic forecasters, pioneers who sought to use the tools of science to pr...

Argues that the struggle over income, wealth, status and privilege-inequality-has been the principal, defining issue in human history and provides ...

Although modern neoliberalism was born at the Colloque Walter Lippmann in 1938, it only came into its own with the founding of the Mont Pèlerin Soc...

Long before Deng Xiaopings market-based reforms, commercial relationships bound the Chinese Communist Party to international capitalism and left la...

Danger Sound Klaxon! reveals the untold story of the Klaxon automobile horn, one of the first great electrical consumer technologies of the twenti...

How to sustain an international system of cooperation in the midst of geopolitical struggleCan the international economic and legal system survive ...

An engaging, solutions-oriented look at how cities and nations can better foster innovation and equality.   From San Francisco to Shanghai, many of...

An engaging, solutions-oriented look at how cities and nations can better foster innovation and equality.   From San Francisco to Shanghai, many of...

The Silver Empire is the first comprehensive account of how the Holy Roman Empire created a common currency in the sixteenth century. The problem...

What can today's behavioural economists learn from the classical liberals of the past? Here, Erik Matson offers critical reflections on what he cal...

The English East India Company was one of the most powerful and enduring organizations in history. Between Monopoly and Free Trade locates the sour...

This book links the world of finance directly to the fate of the cotton and textile industry, long a metaphor for the rise and fall of Britain as a...

Are religions influenced by economics? Are economics influenced by religions? If so, how - and why? Faith in Markets? charts the intersection betwe...

Throughout its history, the U.S. military has worked in close connection to market-based institutions and structures. It has run systems of free an...

A sweeping history of ancient exploration, the first full-scale account in over a century Odysseus. Jason and the Argonauts. Heracles. Greek mytho...