Economic History

In 1870 the Welsh ironmaster John James Hughes left his successful career in England and settled in the barren and underpopulated Donbass region of...

This edited collection sheds light on the complex nature of migratory movements through the lens of economic and social history. It addresses a var...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

Considering silk as a major force of cross-cultural interaction, this book examines the integration of silk production and consumption into various...

Adam Smith, in his The Theory of Moral Sentiments, largely left his readers to develop his argument's full implications. Many philosophers famously...

A dynamic social history of shadow capitalism spanning the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries Observers see free markets, the relentless pursu...

King Ruprecht (14001410) from the Palatine House of Wittelsbach is described in literature as a poor king. The Roman-German kings of the late Middl...

Since the 1950s, Warren Buffett and his partners have backed some of the twentieth century's most profitable, trendsetting companies. But how did t...

Debating the promises and limits of the new economic history, seventeen economists and economic historians look at Great Britain, from the peak of ...

The first comprehensive history of marine insurance transacted in London from the industry's beginnings, to the early-nineteenth-century, when legi...

Exploring how crises have shaped economic and social life from the thirteenth century to the twenty-first. This collection of essays brings togeth...

The sesquicentenary of the Great Irish Famine saw the emergence of seminal, often revisionist, scholarship addressing the impact of the catastrophe...

An engagingly written account of textile engineering in its key northern centres, rich with historical narrative and analysis. The engineers who b...

The Great Economists succinctly and accurately describes the thinking of the worlds leading economic thinkers. It captures their key beliefs, explo...

It would be no exaggeration to say that the GST is one of the most important reforms in post-independent India. Its impact is multi-layered, rangin...

It would be no exaggeration to say that the GST is one of the most important reforms in post-independent India. Its impact is multi-layered, rangin...

In the 1950s and 1960s, Spain underwent one of the most rapid processes of economic development the world had ever seen. Most existing analyses of ...

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

The dramatic inside story of the most important case in the history of sovereign debt law Unlike individuals or corporations that become insolvent...

Chinas dismantling of the Mao-era rural commune system and return to individual household farming under Deng Xiaoping has been seen as a successful...