Economic History

1997 saw a major reform in China which signaled the move away from its traditional economy, when Jiang Zemin called off the debate on public versus...

The Florentine traveler, merchant, and academician Filippo Sassetti was one of the premier economic thinkers of the late Renaissance. Well known fo...

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Armenia has remained on the brink of on the brink of becoming an economic crossroads or an isolated backwat...

East Africa (1971) examines the century from 1870 that saw the emergence of East Africa from an ancient isolation into the modern world. This surve...

This book argues that the prevailing view of colonialism – that it was a negative and destructive phenomenon – needs to be rethought. It focuses on...

Financialisation has become a widely discussed and debated term leading to a plurality of perspectives, but no fixed definition or single reading. ...

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...

Traditionally economic anthropology has been studied by sociologists, anthropologists, and philosophers seeking to highlight the social foundations...

First published in 1937, What is Ahead of Us? is a collection of essays, which were originally presented as lectures before the Fabian Society. Con...

Tax evasion, tax avoidance and tax resistance are widespread phenomena in political, economic, social and fiscal history from antiquity through med...

The Royal Navy and the Slavers, first published in 1969, examines not only the Royal Navy’s 60-year campaign to eradicate slavery, but also the Bri...

This book traces the evolution of the highly integrated global financial system from 1750 to the present. It examines the corporate form of busines...

This book seeks to contribute a multi-dimensional, multi-layered and gendered approach to the illicit economy in the historiography of early modern...

Both Keynes’s General Theory and orthodox economics seek to understand how competitive markets work, but they diverge sharply with respect to the n...

Capitalism and Colonial Production (1982) examines the ways in which capitalism has transformed the societies it came to dominate, and the link bet...

The African Link, first published in 1978, breaks new ground in the studies of pre-19th century racial prejudice by emphasizing the importance of t...

This book describes and analyzes the transformation of Indian economy taking into account historical changes and present dynamics of the rural-urba...

Africa’s Slaves Today, first published in 1975, examines the question of the persistence of slavery in modern Africa. It concludes that slavery is ...

In an era of increasing inequalities, and also of deep anxieties about the consequences of two major economic crises, economists are faced with a m...

This book is about the grassroots community revitalization movement in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Lyon, France, between 1980 and 2010, an extens...

Migration and Mobility (1984) examines the biological aspects of population movement, including genetic, anthropometric and psychological aspects. ...

The 2008 financial crisis, the rise of Trumpism, and the other populist movements which have followed in their wake have grown out of the frustrati...

This book studies the hitherto unexplored history of the shawl and silk industries of the himalyan state of Jammu and Kashmir, India. It focuses on...

Ida Greaves, who was born in Barbados in 1907, is one of the "missing female voices" of early development economics. This biography, the first for ...

A Democracy That Works argues that rather than corporate donations, Republican gerrymandering and media manipulation, the conservative ascendancy r...

First published in 1967, Industrial Relations in the British Printing Industry was written to provide a comprehensive picture of the development of...

Minorities in the Open Society (1986) challenges optimistic assumptions regarding race relations in western nations, namely that social justice wil...

Originally published in 1985, this book examines the extent of Scottish migration and Scottish involvement in the process of development. Although ...

First published in 1985, Advances in Monetary Economics draws together papers given at the 1984 Money Study Group Conference and additional papers ...

The Absorption of Immigrants (1954) examines the assimilation of immigrants in the Yishuv (the Jewish Community in Palestine) and in the State of I...

Some goods are freely traded as commodities without question or controversy. For other goods, their commodification – their being made available in...

Migrant Labour in Europe (1987) examines the movement of workers from less prosperous parts of Europe to areas with demand for their services. The ...

East Africa (1971) examines the century from 1870 that saw the emergence of East Africa from an ancient isolation into the modern world. This surve...

Apprenticeship in early modern Europe has been the subject of important research in the last decades, mostly by economic historians; but the majori...

Money, Warfare and Power in the Ancient World offers twelve papers analysing the processes, consequences and problems involved in the monetization ...

The Derbyshire Miners (1962) examines the development of the Derbyshire coalfield and the growth of trade union organization among the miners. It l...