Economic History

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...

Between Brexit, efforts to Make America great again, and ongoing appeals for patriotic consumption to boost economies, the intersection between nat...

The interrelationship among development, environment, and human needs is one of the key issues being faced by the world today. The Chilean economis...

How corporations used mass media to teach Americans that capitalism was natural and patriotic, exposing the porous line between propaganda and publ...

Analyses how bankruptcy was litigated within the court to gain a more nuanced understanding of early modern bankruptcy. This book examines cases i...

The frequency and repetition of economic crises over the last hundred years demands an analysis that allows us to discover the root causes of these...

The central theme in the work of F.A. Hayek was the problem of order in society, and his focus was epistemological: he was concerned with the const...

In barely three generations the Spanish diet has changed beyond recognition. The traditional concerns around nutritional health and scarcity have b...

There is a striking chronological parallel between Germanys transition from a post-Malthusian regime to modern economic growth and the formation of...

This title was first published in 2003. Bringing together contemporary innovation pattern theories inspired by the two original patterns developed ...

Originally published in 1970, this volume is a valuable source of extensive data concerning Scotlands railways and locomotives. Material that has a...

Since the Middle Ages, literature has portrayed the economic world in poetry, drama, stories and novels. The complexity of human realities highligh...

Multinational Enterprise and Transnational Regions offers an innovative approach to the study of the history of transnational economic regions. The...

Published in 1968. Interest in the Luddite machine-breaking and food riots of 1812 which took place in the North and Midlands continues unabated. P...

Published in 1968. Interest in the Luddite machine-breaking and food riots of 1812 which took place in the North and Midlands continues unabated. P...

Including 11 essays published over the last 15 years, this volume by Dennis O. Flynn and Arturo Giráldez concerns the origins and early developmen...

The Viking Age was a period of profound change in Scandinavia. As kingdoms were established, Christianity became the encompassing ideological and c...

For centuries artists, diplomats, and merchants served as cultural intermediaries in the Mediterranean. Stationed in port cities and other entrepôt...

Published in 1959: This book is the only detailed study of the origin of the German customs union and its history up to the establishment of the un...