Economic history

A history of the cross-border Central African copperbelt, integrating the region''s social history with knowledge production about it.

It is widely known that - at least in current societies - culture depends on money.

First published in 1981, this book brings together different types of work by numerous fragmented groups in the field of Marxist history and puts them in dialogue with each other.

This book examines social transformation during the Tang-Song period by focusing on the emergence and development of the "e;society of moneyed elite"e; in ancient China.

The Commanding Heights is about the most powerful political and economic force in the world today -- the epic struggle between government and the marketplace that has, over the last twenty years, turned the world upside down and dramatically transformed our lives.

Originally published in 1925, Industry and Civilisation explores moral standards and ethics related to economic activities by providing a comprehensive view of psychological data obtained from the business world.

This title was first published in 2001.

The Making of Modern Economics presents a bold and engaging history of economics-the dramatic story of how the great economic thinkers built today's rigorous social science.

Examines the origin and early development of the classical theory of distribution up to 1767, stressing the concept of economic `surplus' as a key determinant of economic phenomena.

Published in 1997, this volume is a collection of seminal articles on a theme of central importance in the study of transport history, selected from the leading journal in the field.

Examines the way economic historians have approached two sets of problems.

Published in 1997, this volume is a collection of seminal articles on a theme of central importance in the study of transport history, selected from the leading journal in the field.

The banking and financial sector has expanded dramatically in the last forty years, and the consequences of this accelerated growth have been felt by people around the world.

"e;Compact and immensely readable .

Economic Theory and the Ancient Mediterranean presents a comprehensive introduction to the application of contemporary economic theory to the ancient societies of the Mediterranean Sea from the period of 5000 BCE to 400 CE.

'Fisher's book will appeal to scholars interested in historical macroeconomics and the industrial revolution.

Brazil has undergone transformative change since the 1980s, from an authoritarian regime to a democratic society advancing on all frontspolitical, social, economic, and diplomatic.

This title presents an historical survey of the American business corporation from the colonial era to the present day.

From the end of the nineteenth century until the onset of the Great Depression, Wall Street embarked on a stunning, unprecedented, and often bloody period of international expansion in the Caribbean.

Argues that workers'' compensation laws created new employment discrimination against disabled people and a new injury culture that treated employees and their injuries instrumentally.

The Marketplace of Revolution offers a boldly innovative interpretation of the mobilization of ordinary Americans on the eve of independence.

Unemployment was perhaps the major problem confronting European society at the time in which this book was first published in 1987, and is arguably still the case today.

In parallel to the development of democracy, the Athenians of the Classical period established a series of sophisticated economic institutions for the time through which they developed a maritime and commercially oriented economy.

Much has been written on the Indian economy but this is the first major attempt to present India's economic history as a continuous process, and to place the development of agriculture, industry and currency in a political and historical context.

Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology Volume 37C features a symposium celebrating the centenary of the influential economist and historian of economic thought Robert Heilbroner.

This book challenges amoral views of finance as the leading realm in which mammon - wealth and profit - is pursued with little overt regard for morality.

An insightful collection of essays focused on American men, women, and children from a range of economic classes and ethnic backgrounds during the Great Depression.

This innovative history of California opens up new vistas on the interrelationship among culture, nature, and society by focusing on the state's signature export-the orange.

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

The 21st century marks a watershed in the history of the human economic condition.

Historically, commerce has existed in Assam in different forms.

Explains the compatibility of economic development and democracy in the United States during industrialization.

Formerly prosperous cities across the United States, struggling to keep up with an increasingly global economy and the continued decline of post-war industries like manufacturing, face the issue of how to adapt to today's knowledge economy.

The study of consumption and its relationship to cultural and social values has become a vibrant and important field in recent years.

Ein heute alltäglicher Ort im Wandel der Zeit: Caféhauskultur in und um Braunschweig vom 18.

An indispensable reference work for anyone interested in Latin America''s economic development.

This book of essays, which draws on the expertise of leading textile scholars in Britain and the United States, focuses on the problem of and responses to foreign competition in textiles from the late nineteenth century to the present day.

The Panic of 1893 and the depression it triggered mark one of the decisive crises in American history.

History of the British West Indies (1954) examines the history of the islands of the Caribbean from their first discovery, through the periods of colonisation and slavery, and up to the beginnings of their status as independent nations.

This collective book offers a panorama of the history of tax evasion, tax avoidance and tax havens from the nineteenth century to the present day, based on the latest research in contemporary history.

This book repositions the groundbreaking Bretton Woods conference of July 1944 as the first large-scale multilateral North-South dialogue on global financial governance.

Stalin's Quest for Gold tells the story of Torgsin, a chain of retail shops established in 1930 with the aim of raising the hard currency needed to finance the USSR's ambitious industrialization program.

This book chronicles the ascension of the New York Stock Exchange, detailing its remarkable rise to preeminence and its lasting impact on financial history.

First Published in 2005.

This text challenges the traditional view of the history of econometrics and provides a more complete story.

In the 1990s, 'protection', 'import substitution' and 'intervention' have become dirty words, part of the 'leyenda negra' of Latin America development in the postwar period.