Economic history

For most of the twentieth century, the Conservative Party engaged in an ongoing struggle to curb the power of the trade unions, culminating in the radical legislation of the Thatcher governments.

The Ephemeral Civilization is an astonishing intellectual feat in which Graeme Snooks develops an original and ground-breaking analysis of changing sociopolitical forms over the past 3,000 years.

Nachdem Marx seine ökonomischen Studien von 1857/58 zur Selbstverständigung zusammengefasst hatte – seit ihrer Erstveröffentlichung 1939/1941 bekannt als „Grundrisse der Kritik der politischen Ökonomie“ (siehe MEGA II/1) –, plante er die Publikation seines großen ökonomischen Werkes in einzelnen, in zwangloser Folge erscheinenden Heften unter dem Titel „Zur Kritik der politischen Ökonomie“.

This book is an analysis of the political and philosophical foundations of the development of India's economy, including discussions of what's gone wrong in the past and what can be done to rectify it.

In this book, Maxine Berg explores the invention, making, and buying of new, semi-luxury, and fashionable consumer goods during the eighteenth century.

This book offers a comprehensive exploration of Gunnar Myrdal's life, as well as his significant scientific, political and international contributions.

This book is the first English translation of Felice di Michele Brancacci's diary of his 1422 mission to the court of Sultan Al-Ashraf Seyf-ad-Din Barsbay of Egypt.

The presumed sovereignty of individuals and the facilitating powers of the markets have generated a universal and ethically neutral conception of both social and economic organisation.

An in-depth analysis of one of the most important and complex issues of the post-Soviet era, namely the (re-)integration of this highly interconnected region.

This is the first collection of essays dedicated to the topics of money and economics in the English literature of the late Middle Ages.

This book aims to define comparative economics and to illustrate the breadth and depth of its contribution.

The Morning Chronicle presented the state of the working classes of Britain before the public with clarity, insight and honesty.

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Nile Green''s Bombay Islam shows how Muslim migration from Bombay fueled demand for a wide range of religious suppliers.

At the turn of the nineteenth century, when the word "e;capital"e; first found its way into the vocabulary of mid-Hudson Valley residents, the term irrevocably marked the profound change that had transformed the region from an inward-looking, rural community into a participant in an emerging market economy.

David Ricardo, one of the major figures in the history of economic thought, particularly in the English classical political economy, deployed his activities as economist just two hundreds of years ago.

This book, first published in 1999, gives a balanced, enlightening account of how KKR has approached leveraged buyouts.

This is the first systematic quantitative account of British economic growth from the thirteenth century to the Industrial Revolution.

At the end of the High Middle Ages in Europe, with buying power and economic sophistication at a high, an itinerary detailing the toll stations along a commercial artery carrying eastern goods (from China, India and Iran) towards Europe was compiled, and later incorporated in the well-known trading manual of the Florentine bank official Pegolotti; Pegolotti was twice stationed in the city of Famagusta in Cyprus, which lay opposite the city of Ayas where the land route ended.

This critically-commented source edition contains the commercial directions, merchant diary and naval log of four East India Company ships, which sailed from London to Canton, China in 1723, as well as the travelogue of another contemporary trader who sailed from Ostend.

Die Studie untersucht am Beispiel der Königlichen Porzellan-Manufaktur und der Königlichen Gesundheits-Manufaktur die Arbeits- und Machtbeziehungen in zentralisierten Großbetrieben vor und während der Industrialisierung in Preußen.

In the course of the early modern period, the capacity of European states to raise finances, wage wars, subject their own and far away populations, and exert bureaucratic power over a variety of areas of social life increased dramatically.

This book charts the contributions made to the development of the late medieval English economy by enterprise, money, and credit in a period which saw its major export trade in wool, which earned most of its money-supply, suffer from prolonged periods of warfare, high taxation, adverse weather, and mortality of sheep.

Using the basic economic principle of making decisions using a cost-benefit framework-and how changes in one or the other can result in a different decision-this book uncovers how various groups responded to incentives provided by the Prohibition legislation.

Bengal's traditional industries, once celebrated worldwide, largely decayed under the backwash effects of the British Industrial Revolution in the first half of the nineteenth century.

This vital addition to the Routledge History of Economic Thought series surveys arguably the most important country in the development of economics as we know it today - the United States of America.

Silver, Butter, Cloth advances current debates about the nature and complexity of Viking economic systems.

Charts Britain''s transformation from the European periphery to a global economic power from the reign of Elizabeth I to Victoria.

The years of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, aptly described by Mark Twain as the 'Gilded Age' witnessed an unprecedented level of technological change, material excess, untrammled pursuit of profit and imperial expansion.

Although there have been numerous studies of the causes and consequences of the Great Financial Crisis of 2007-2010 in the US and abroad, many of these were undertaken only for a small number of countries and before the financial and economic effects were fully realized and before various governmental policy responses were decided upon and actually implemented.

A boom in the production and export of cotton made Iran the richest region of the Islamic caliphate in the ninth and tenth centuries.

The book examines female entrepreneurship in the nineteenth century.

This edited collection is a novel book with contributions from eleven expert researchers on the history of tourism in Europe.

This book reflects China's experience, model and theory of successful inflation control.

The Englishwoman's Review, which published from 1866 to 1910, participated in and recorded a great change in the range of possibilities open to women.

Originally published in 1971, this book gives the real substance of Scotland at the time of Mary Queen of Scots.

The Londoner John Blackwell (1624-1701), shaped by his parents' Puritanism and merchant interests of his iconoclast father, became one of Oliver Cromwell's New Model Army captains.

Highlights the interactions between institutions and policy choices, as well as the importance of historical constraints on Britain''s relative economic decline.

Adam Smith (1723-1790) is famous around the world as the founding father of economics, and his ideas are regularly quoted and invoked by politicians, business leaders, economists, and philosophers.

The Englishwoman's Review, which published from 1866 to 1910, participated in and recorded a great change in the range of possibilities open to women.

This book revisits the economic relationship that ties the UK andIreland to the United States in the aftermath of the greatest economic crisisof the past fifty years.

The Political Construction of Business Interests recounts employers'' struggles to define their collective social identities at turning points in capitalist development.

Merchant organisation was a global phenomenon in the early modern era, and in the growing contacts between peoples and cultures, merchants may be seen as privileged intermediaries.

The first history of the German multinational''s resounding failure in its global development project of a cattle ranch in the Brazilian Amazon.

Against the background of increasing interest in the changing nature and quality of work, The Political Economy of Work offers a new and unique assessment of the theoretical analysis of work.