Economic history

As the first in-depth study of women's experience of work in Scotland before 1800, this book draws on a wide variety of hitherto unexplored sources to throw light on the everyday working activities of women, married and single, successful and deprived, and their role in the urban community.

'Friends of China can help her best by maintaining broad but not uncritical support and striving for a deeper understanding of this ancient culture and the political and economic structure of the nation.

An account based on British archival sources of the search for a co-ordinated Anglo-French programme of economic recovery which would define the shape of postwar Europe.

The livelihood of Third World farmers conflicts with saving the remaining tropical forests.

This work presents eleven studies in the field of Russian/Soviet economic and social history, which have been specially commissioned as a tribute to Professor R.

The transformation since 1980 of many industrial countries, Communist nations and numerous developing countries entails a shift away from government involvement in economies toward greater reliance on market forces.

Keynes's personality was fixed by the clash between Moorean values - other-worldliness, idealism, pacifism - and Keynes's own nature which craved and attained worldly success, wealth and social influence and approbation.

This book traces the growth of capitalism in South East Asia between 1870 and 1941, a crucial element in understanding contemporary economic and political developments in the region.

The book begins with an editors' introduction that provides a conceptual setting for a comparative study of the role of policy in the development of the postwar Japanese and West German economies.

In this book Ryoshin Minami studies the last hundred years of Japan's remarkable economic growth from the Meiji period up to the present day.

Until the early 1900s governments of Southeast Asia farmed out the right to run opium, gambling and other monopolies.

'All of us need help in understanding Keynes's brilliant, but often opaque, contributions to theory and policy.

This book analyses China's historical experience of industrialization.

This is a volume of essays exploring important themes in the economic and social history of Russia and the Soviet Union during the critical period between 1860 and 1930.

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

This second volume of the highly successful, A History of Marxian Economics, covers the period from 1929 to the present.

The theme of the book is how efficient economic organisation with clearly defined property rights in the framework of a market economy has made possible the development of the South African economy.

Howard and King have done an excellent job scholarly without being partisan or polemical.

Since it first appeared in 1975, Ben Fine's introductory account of Capital has become the most popular text of its kind, used widely across the social sciences and also read by a wider audience.

This study explains the economic upheavals experienced by Vietnam since the end of the War in terms of historical developments, especially the legacy of separation of North and South from 1954 to the 1975 Communist victory and traces aspects of the divided economies which have been of significance.

Thirty years ago the Irish State embarked on a programme of development which rapidly transformed the economy and with it Irish society.

A concise, up-to-date introductory text for first examinations, covering the period from 1750 to the present day.

This ebook is now available from Bloomsbury Academic.

This collection of papers proposes to trace the professional and personal fortunes of Maffeo Pantaleoni (1857-1924), an eminent and controversial Italian economist from the liberalist culture which in the early twentieth century perceived the shortcomings and dangers of the nascent monopolist concentrations.

In 1929-30, the 'spinal year' of the first five-year plan, a vast investment programme began the transformation of the Soviet Union from a peasant country into a great industrial power.

A highly readable account of the collision between sovereign states and global economic forces for the control of money.

On December 14, 1945, the House of Commons voted 314 to 50 to ratify the Agreements negotiated at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, nearly a year and a half earlier.

After the Second World War, the economics of the western capitalist countries were based on a production system called fordism, but in the mid 1970s this system began to break down, and it has been in crisis since.

This important book is the first in-depth history of the Rhodesian railway system.

In Managing the British Economy in the 1960s Sir Alec Cairncross, who was Economic Adviser to HMG in 1961-64 and Head of the newly-created Government Economic Service in 1964-69, tells the inside story of the making of economic policy under four Chancellors of the Exchequer between 1960 and 1970, first under a Conservative government then under a Labour government.

Most companies have to produce year-end accounts.

This book is a study of the American economy from 1929 to 1989 through the analysis of national income statistics and other data.

Provides an analysis of the classical gold standard (1880-1914) - the nearest historical equivalent to what EC countries are attempting to do - in order to examine critically these and other issues raised in the debate.

Macroeconomic data on the industrial revolutions in five countries are examined in this book, both descriptively and analytically (using structural and time-series methods).