Economic History

Fundamental tenets of colonial historiography are challenged by showing that US capital investment into this colony did not lead to the disappearan...

There has been a long history of idealism concerning the potential of economic and political developments in Africa, the latest iteration of which ...

A vivid social history of Baltimore's prostitution trade and its evolution throughout the nineteenth century, Bawdy City centers women in a story o...

Jan Breman takes dispossession as his central theme in this ambitious analysis of labour bondage in India's changing political economy from 1962 to...

Austria Supreme (if it so wishes) (1684) provides a translation of and a scholarly introduction to the Austrian-German Mercantilist classic Oesterr...

The First World War left a legacy of chaos that is still with us a century later. Why did European leaders resort to war and why did they not end i...

South Africa has entered a new era, with the countrys recently elected president, Cyril Ramaphosa, promising a new dawn. But will President Ramapho...

Chinas Communist Party seized power in 1949 after a long period of guerrilla insurgency followed by full-scale war, but the Chinese revolution was ...

What explains the great variability in economic growth and political development across countries? Institutional and organizational analysis has de...

Investing-the commitment of resources to achieve a return-affects individuals, families, companies, and nations, and has done so throughout history...

In the years surrounding the Second World War, a serendipitous confluence of events created a healthy balance between the market and the politybetw...

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 ...

Vilfredo Pareto's Manual of Political Economy is a 'classic' study in the history of economic thought for many reasons, the most noteworthy of whic...