Economic history

This 1973 book is a radical interpretation, offering a unified explanation for the growth of Western Europe between 900 A.

Making the Modern American Fiscal State chronicles the rise of the US system of direct and progressive taxation.

Ulbe Bosma details how the British and Dutch introduced the sugar plantation model in Asia and refashioned it over time.

An interdisciplinary examination of credible commitment to fiscal responsibility and its relevance to current macroeconomic policy making.

Reveals how people transformed their experiences of financial crisis into a single event that would serve as a turning point in American history.

Making the Modern American Fiscal State chronicles the rise of the US system of direct and progressive taxation.

Ulbe Bosma details how the British and Dutch introduced the sugar plantation model in Asia and refashioned it over time.

An interdisciplinary examination of credible commitment to fiscal responsibility and its relevance to current macroeconomic policy making.

Reveals how people transformed their experiences of financial crisis into a single event that would serve as a turning point in American history.

A collection of essays by Nobel laureate Robert W.

A major contribution to our understanding of total war.

These essays explore the history of the US tax mission to Japan during the occupation following World War II.

This book argues that the period from World War I to the Great Depression was an incubating era when innovative and lasting policy paradigms emerged.

This book focuses on how Enlightenment ideas shaped plantation management and slave work routines.

This study examines the crucial role of merchants in the rise and decline of New Orleans during the nineteenth century.

These essays explore the history of the US tax mission to Japan during the occupation following World War II.

This book argues that the period from World War I to the Great Depression was an incubating era when innovative and lasting policy paradigms emerged.

This book focuses on how Enlightenment ideas shaped plantation management and slave work routines.

This study examines the crucial role of merchants in the rise and decline of New Orleans during the nineteenth century.

Essays from the 2010 centenary conference of the 1910 Jekyll Island meeting of American financiers and the US Treasury.

A fascinating account of how cotton industrialised Europe and transformed the early modern global economy.

Essays from the 2010 centenary conference of the 1910 Jekyll Island meeting of American financiers and the US Treasury.

A fascinating account of how cotton industrialised Europe and transformed the early modern global economy.

The authors analyze Solvay''s 150-year history, showing the enormous impact geopolitical events had on the company and the recent consequences of global competition.

This book traces the history of bird guano, demonstrating how this unique commodity helped unite the Pacific Basin with the industrialized world.

The authors analyze Solvay''s 150-year history, showing the enormous impact geopolitical events had on the company and the recent consequences of global competition.

This book traces the history of bird guano, demonstrating how this unique commodity helped unite the Pacific Basin with the industrialized world.

A collection of essays offering an overview of the importance and resilience of family-controlled large businesses.

This book compares the evolution of the household refuse business in Britain and Germany since 1945.

This book compares the evolution of the household refuse business in Britain and Germany since 1945.

A collection of essays offering an overview of the importance and resilience of family-controlled large businesses.

An account that challenges the conventional views of African merchants under colonialism, examining the emergence and changing fortunes of indigenous entrepreneurs in Lagos, NigeriaIn Capitalism in the Colonies, A.

Chronicles the rise of Western Union Telegraph from the early years of telecommunications to its apogee as the first nationwide corporate monopoly in American history.

Chronicles the rise of Western Union Telegraph from the early years of telecommunications to its apogee as the first nationwide corporate monopoly in American history.

Economics and fiction often pursue parallel objectives.

This book brings together its contributors to study the figure of Seignelay Colbert de Castlehill, born in Inverness on 13th August 1735 into a Presbyterian family and who died in London, an anti-Concordant bishop and leader of the 'Little Church' on 15th July 1811.

Djekhy & Son, two businessmen living 2500 years ago in the densely populated neighborhoods built around the great temple of Amun at Karnak, worked as funerary service providers in the necropolis on the western bank of the Nile.

This book focuses on the late colonial history of Zambia and Malawi, which between 1953 and 1963 were part of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland.

This Element reviews what we know about parental investments and children''s human capital in low-to-middle-income countries.

This Element reviews what we know about parental investments and children''s human capital in low-to-middle-income countries.

Global history of the 1918-20 Influenza Pandemic (Spanish Flu) that delivers insights into the socio-economic implications of the COVID-19.

Global history of the 1918-20 Influenza Pandemic (Spanish Flu) that delivers insights into the socio-economic implications of the COVID-19.

Reinterprets Dadabhai Naoroji''s Indian contribution to global debates on liberalism, capitalism and labour alongside concerns of civil peace.

Explores the microeconomic history of the Punjab to situate many popular, current themes in development studies in the historical context.

Uses an accessible narrative frame to explore key issues – like truth, probability, expediency, pragmatism – in Keynes''s unique career.

Uses an accessible narrative frame to explore key issues – like truth, probability, expediency, pragmatism – in Keynes''s unique career.

A bold new interpretation of ''consumer revolution'' in 18th-century Europe, examining globalization and the politics of consumption in the age of Revolution.