Economic History

The Panic of 1819 tells the story of the first nationwide economic collapse to strike the United States. Much more than a banking crisis or real es...

In addition to winning the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for her path-breaking research on economic governance, especially the commons, Eli...

Provides a corrective to a neglected aspect of Jewish history in the SouthDiane C. Vecchio examines the diverse economic experiences of Jews who se...

In the wake of the financial crisis in 2008, historians have turned with renewed urgency to understanding the economic dimension of historical chan...

In the twelfth-century, Pisa was a powerhouse of global trade, a city that stood at the centre of Medieval Europe. But Pisa had a problem. It was r...

Die Arbeit verfolgt die Entwicklung einer Theorie der Wirtschaftskrisen bei Marx und in der politischen Ökonomie des 19. Jahrhunderts. Marx hat die...

The marginalization of women in economics has a history as long as the discipline itself. Throughout the history of economics, women contributed su...

This volume introduces two unique and hitherto largely unknown contributions to the making of modern economic knowledge and makes them available in...

Although no less an authority than Joseph A. Schumpeter proclaimed that Antonio Serra was the worlds first economist, he remains something of a dar...

A new edition of Kaplans landmark study on eighteenth-century French political economy, reissued with a new Foreword by Sophus A. Reinert. Based on...

In The Global Financial Crisis, contributors argue that the complexity of the Global Financial Crisis challenges researchers to offer more comprehe...

An illuminating history of Americas original credit market.  The Continental Dollar is a revelatory history of how the fledgling United States paid...

This is a coordinated presentation of the economic basis of revolutionary change in 16th- and early-17th century England, addressing a crucial but ...

A detailed historical look at how copyright was negotiated and protected by authors, publishers, and the state in late imperial and modern ChinaIn ...

This book provides new insights into how theatre responded to changing economic practices and structures. It reviews discourses on household manage...

Months before the end of World War II, a committee of economists and other professionals commissioned by the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs b...

The trade in books has always been and remains an ambiguous commercial activity, associated as it is with literature and the exchange of ideas. Thi...

John R. Commons is one of the most significant figures in the development of American economics. One of the founders of the Institutional school, C...

This book offers a view of shifts in labour relations in various parts of the world over a breathtaking span, from 1500 to 2000, with a particular ...