Economic History

Australia's economic history is the story of the transformation of an indigenous economy and a small convict settlement into a nation of nearly 23 ...

Although still the worlds third largest economy, Japan continues to feel the effects of the collapse of a massive asset price bubble in the early 1...

The gripping story of how the end of the Roman Empire was the beginning of the modern worldThe fall of the Roman Empire has long been considered on...

For as long as there have been rich nations and poor nations, debt has been a powerful force for maintaining the unequal relations between them. Tr...

To fully understand the Federal Reserve and its role today we need to examine its origins and the men who founded it. Using extensive archival sour...

En 1941, l''Allemagne nazie se lance a l''assaut de l''Union sovietique; le Japon attaque les Etats-Unis. La guerre est desormais mondiale et touch...

The six Arab monarchies of the Persian Gulf Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have a disproportionate impor...

The big economic story of our times is not the Great Recession. It is how China and India began to embrace neoliberal ideas of economics and attrib...

Catholic Herald Book Awards 2019 Finalist, Current Affairs Auzanneau has created a towering telling of a dark and dangerous addiction. -Nature ...

Based on the series produced for the BBC World ServiceWho thought up paper money? How did the contraceptive pill change the face of the legal profe...

Valley of Opportunity recreates an age when Indians, colonists, and post-Revolutionary settlers embraced a similar dream: to create a successful ec...

The growth of joint-stock business in Victorian Britain re-evaluated, showing in particular the resistance to it. Winner of the Economic History S...

Provence is justly famous for its dazzling light, vibrant colours, rich history, and flavourful foods and wines. And its markets have been the beat...

The global beauty business permeates our lives, influencing how we perceive ourselves and what it is to be beautiful. The brands and firms which ha...

Throughout the twentieth century, Wales underwent rapid and far-reaching economic upheavals on such a scale that few avoided their impacts from re...

A lively account of how dinosaurs became a symbol of American power and prosperity and gripped the popular imagination during the Gilded Age, when ...

In the first half of the nineteenth century the Qing Empire faced a crisis. It was broadly perceived both inside and outside of government that the...

This book provides the first edition with an extensive introduction and full commentary of a unique land survey written on papyrus in Greek which d...

Indonesia is often viewed as a country with substantial natural resources which has achieved solid economic growth since the 1960s, but which still...

The Great Crash of 1929 violently disrupted the United States' confident march toward becoming the world's superpower. The suddenness of the catacl...

When President James Monroe announced in his 1824 message to Congress that, barring an emergency, the large public debt inherited from the War for ...

Money and finance have been among the most potent tools of colonial power. This study investigates the Japanese experiment with financial imperiali...

In this innovative legal history of economic life in the Western Indian Ocean, Bishara examines the transformations of Islamic law and Islamicate c...

Jesus taught his followers that it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven. Yet by the fall of ...