Economic History

How the rich and the super-rich throughout Western history accumulated their wealth, behaved (or misbehaved) and helped (or didnt help) their commu...

In The Industrial Turn in World History, Peter N. Stearns presents a concise yet far reaching overview of the worldwide shift from agricultural soc...

Where did modern banking come fromand how does this history help us understand financial crises?In the twelfth century, Pisa was a thriving metropo...

Revealing a history that is deep, broad, and infuriating, The Black Tax casts a bold light on the racist practices long hidden in the shadows of Am...

Fiscal relations between states and cities in early modern Europe is a major concern for economic and financial historians. This collection of elev...

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Impressive[Readers] will be rewarded with greater understanding of historical developments that changed the relationship between consumers and prod...

This book analyses Rabindranath Tagores contribution to Bengali drama and theatre. Throughout this book, Abhijit Sen locates and studies Rabindrana...

The Nine Years War with France was a period of great institutional innovation in public finance and of severe monetary turmoil for England. It saw ...

Central banks now stand between societies and collapse, but are they still democratic? Two decades of financial crises have dramatically expanded c...

After the Great Financial Crisis, economic theory was fiercely criticized from both outside and inside the discipline for being incapable of explai...

This second edition has been updated to include an assessment of economic relations up to the COVID-19 pandemic. It focuses on three main threads t...

History and Economic Life offers students a wide-ranging introduction to both quantitative and qualitative approaches to interpreting economic hist...

Offering a retrospective view of how the system operated in Communist Czechoslovakia, this book is an important voice in the discussion about the s...

China has reemerged as a powerhouse in the global economy, reviving a classic question in economic history: why did sustained economic growth arise...

Outskirts of Empire: Studies in British Power Projection investigates the substructure of Britains interests in the Near East and beyond during the...

This book explains the role of formal labour market institutions in keeping the labour utilisation in Central and Eastern Europe above the level ch...

This volume marks the first English translation of Toshihiro Tanakas research outside Japan, offering a rare opportunity for international scholars...

Macroeconomic Analysis in the Classical Tradition explains how the influence of Keyness macroeconomics, including his changed definitions of some k...

Management and labor have been adversaries in American and Canadian workplaces since the time of colonial settlement. Labor lacked full legal legit...

Originating in the sea, especially in the waters surrounding the low-lying islands of the Maldives, Cypraea moneta (sometimes confused with Cypraea...

This book is set against the assumption that humans' unique feature is their infinite creativity, their ability to reflect on their deeds and to co...

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...

The Dialectical Meaning of Offshored Work analyzes how offshoring investments function as a platform for intercultural encounters among corporate a...

In The Politics of Public Debt, Daniel Bin analyzes how fiscal and monetary policies and the administration of public debt related to class, labor,...

Nowhere in Europe are people more likely to enjoy a regular flutter in stocks and shares than in Britain. Whether we consider the millions of onlin...

This book incorporates advances in financial and monetary history and theory and shows the relevance of Spain's story to modern banking, monetary a...

Written on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the publication of Piero Sraffa's Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities, the papers ...

Covering the period c.1200-c.2000, this book provides an innovative investigation of entrepreneurship in a long-run historical perspective, present...