Economic History

Mexicans and those who follow Mexican affairs were optimistic in 2000 when the country experienced its first alternation in government (from the Pa...

Outskirts of Empire: Studies in British Power Projection investigates the substructure of Britains interests in the Near East and beyond during the...

Contemporary mainstream economists see social wealth as the sum of individual incomes, but for three centuries many economists saw wealth as consis...

A compelling account of how markets really govern themselves, and why they often baffle and outrage outsiders   One of the reasons many people beli...

The United States has two separate banking systems todayone serving the well-to-do and another exploiting everyone else. How the Other Half Banks c...

This fascinating study investigates the experience of English poverty between 1700 and 1900 and the ways in which the poor made ends meet. The phra...

For the Victorian working class, lodging in someone elses home was commonplace. Yet, despite their prevalence, lodgers and their householders have ...

This groundbreaking resource moves us from theory to action with a practical plan for reparations.   A surge in interest in black reparations is ta...

What are the problems addressed by the growing field of global economic history? What debates and methodologies does it engage with? As Global Ec...

Spices, scents and silks were at the centre of world trade for millennia. Exotic luxuries such as cinnamon, ginger, pepper, saffron, clove, frankin...

This open access book examines the formation and sustainability of private credit networks in past societies, gathering a global range of case stud...

Using materials from archives, literature, and field research, this book chronicles the history of the evolution of Zhanqi Village in Sichuan Provi...

This book systematically addresses Bourdieus key ideas and concepts in the context of Marxist thought. In this book, Bourdieus central theoretical ...

Medium-Sized Cities in the Age of Globalisation provides a brand-new perspective on academic discussions of globalisation through exploring urban d...

What are the problems addressed by the growing field of global economic history? What debates and methodologies does it engage with? As Global Ec...

This book argues that the prevailing view of colonialism that it was a negative and destructive phenomenon needs to be rethought. It focuses on t...