Economic History

In this fresh, unfamiliar, and sometimes surprising picture of modern Italy, history is refracted through the prism of the nation's consumer cultur...

John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) is perhaps the foremost economic thinker of the twentieth century. On economic theory, he ranks with Adam Smith a...

An analysis of later Stuart economic culture that contributes significantly to our understanding of early modern society. The English economy unde...

Sean Wilentz presents two key insights that reveal a much-needed vision of American political history. Firstly, partisanship has almost always been...

Today's world is the product of the late middle ages. In what is now called 'Flanders', a new kind of man emerged. A practical man, an entrepreneur...

The Florentine musician Jacopo Peri (1561-1633) is known as the composer of the first operas--they include the earliest to survive complete, Euridi...

Lucid and damning an absorbing and infuriating tale of complicity, coverup and denial PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE, author of EMPIRE OF PAIN ...

In November 2020, The New York Times asked fifteen of its columnists to 'explain what the past four years have cost America.' Not one of the colum...

The former dean of the Yale School of Management and Undersecretary of Commerce in the Clinton administration chronicles the 1971 August meeting at...

To the Brink of Destruction exposes how America's rating agencies helped generate the global financial crisis of 2007 and beyond, surviving and thr...

Following a remarkable epoch of greater dispersion of wealth and opportunity, we are inexorably returning towards a more feudal era marked by great...

En proposant le 9 mai 1950 la creation d''une Haute Autorite du Charbon et de l''Acier, Robert Schuman, inspire par Jean Monnet, choisit un chemin ...

Imagine one day you went to a cash-machine and found your money was gone. You rushed to your branch, where a teller said that overnight people had ...

Volume 29 contains articles on the economic history of Europe and the U.S. including Understanding Aging During the Epidemiologic Transition by Suc...

When the Genoese merchant, Marco Polo, first arrived in Dynastic China he was faced with a society far advanced of anything he had encountered in E...