Economic History

Salt is a vital commodity. For many centuries it sustained life for Scots as seasoning for a diet dominated by grains (mainly oats), and for preser...

Essential reading for understanding the international economynow thoroughly updatedLucid, accessible, and provocative, and now thoroughly updated t...

This is the history of the East India Company and its enduring legacy as a corporation, dealing in exploitation and violence. The English East Ind...

A leading economic historian presents a new history of financial crises, showing how some led to greater globalization while others kept nations ap...

From the Introduction:   This book challenges the conventional wisdom about classical political economy and the rise of capitalism. It is written i...

This book examines the U.S economy from 1967 to 2011 and utilizes a new method to predict the future of the economy as far ahead as 2030. This new ...

Lord Byron described Greece as great, fallen, and immortal, a characterization more apt than he knew. Through most of its long history, Greece was ...

Fifth in the series of books reporting and interpreting the policies, plans, debates, and activities involved in U.S. international finance. Prepar...

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

This volume presents Martin Luthers contribution to the modern economic sciences, providing a detailed  introduction and revised translation of his...

Mathew Carey was one of the most popular and influential economic writers of his day, but his work has been largely overlooked by modern writers, w...

Praise for the silver jubilee edition:Uma Kapilas 25th edition of this well-known volume contains an excellent and up-to-date collection of essays ...

Newly revised, this edition is a core text for graduate and postgraduate courses in the Indian economy. Select articles by a number of India's fore...

Former Prime Minister and the countrys longest-serving Chancellor, Gordon Brown has been a guiding force for Britain and the world over three decad...

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

This collection of essays presents insight and methodology that are highly relevant for readers today as they consider the future of the world they...

During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the Ottoman Empire endured long periods of warfare, facing intense financial pressures and new int...