Economic history

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This book brings together a group of leading economic historians to examine how institutions, innovation, and industrialization have determined the development of nations.

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.

Railways presented nineteenth century governments with political as well as economic problems: their inherently monopolistic tendencies were recognized almost from the start.

When Washington Shut Down Wall Street unfolds like a mystery story.

This volume brings together a leading group of scholars to offer a new perspective on the history of conflicts and trade, focusing on the role of small and medium, or "e;weak"e;, and often neutral states.

This second volume of essays on nineteenth and twentieth century economic thought, complements the first and continues the high standards of scholarship and academic rigour.

First published in 1967, Professor Bairoch's Diagnostic de L'Evolution Economique du Tiers-Monde has gone into four editions, and has brought the author an international reputation.

Fifty Key Sociologists: The Contemporary Theorists covers the life, work, ideas and impact of some of the most important thinkers in this discipline.

First Published in 2005.

The Federal Reserve System, which has been Congress's agent for the control of money since 1913, has a mixed reputation.

For thousands of years, from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia to its current status as a global industry, the history of wine has been directly related to major social, cultural, religious and economic changes.

Where the Waves Fall (1984) centres the stories of the Pacific Islanders and how they were affected by European explorers and colonisers in this unique account of human settlement and cultural interchange in the Pacific islands.

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.

Geology is the most historical of all sciences.

At the start of his career Innis set out to explain the significance of price rigidities in the cultural, social, and political institutions of new countries; by the end of his intellectual journey he had become one of the most influential critics of modernity.

This book re-evaluates the role of local agency and provides a new perspective to the political, social and cultural history of state formation, taking a microhistorical approach and through close analysis of archival sources between 1550 to 1700.

Introduction to Medieval Europe 300-1500 provides a comprehensive survey of this complex and varied formative period of European history within a global context, covering themes as diverse as barbarian migrations, the impact of Christianisation, the formation of nations and states, the emergence of an expansionist commercial economy, the growth of cities, the Crusades, the effects of plague and the intellectual and cultural dynamism of the Middle Ages.

This book explains how new sources of energy increased productivity, thereby transforming industry and changing England permanently and fundamentally.

Financing Sovereignty rewrites the story of one of the great financial frauds of the nineteenth century: Gregor MacGregor, a Scottish mercenary and self-proclaimed cacique of Poyais, borrowed massive sums on the City of London's burgeoning South American sovereign debt market by selling bonds of the State of Poyais.

Economists disagree on whether recent U.

Financial crises happen time and again in post-industrial economiesand they are extraordinarily damaging.

This book offers a multidisciplinary redefinition of China's model of crony comprador capitalism.

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

Originally published between 1920-70,The History of Civilization was a landmark in early twentieth century publishing.

Originally published in 1986, this work discusses the development in Dacca of western-style municipal organization and its financial and practical problems and also explores the economic transition of the city after 1840.

Money in the history of political thought, from ancient Greece to the Great Inflation of the 1970sIn the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, critical attention has shifted from the economy to the most fundamental feature of all market economies-money.

Industrial Clusters shows the latest state of knowledge on the topic of industrial clusters, with a particular focus on clustering in the UK, bringing together a chronological coverage of the phenomenon.

Takeshi Hamashita, arguably Asia's premier historian of the longue duree, has been instrumental in opening a new field of inquiry in Chinese, East Asian and world historical research.

Drawing on years of research, Gerald Steele delves into the diverse ideas of Henry Simons, a neglected economist whose work in the 1930s on monetary and financial instability is extremely relevant to today's debates about commercial bank credit, the interdependence of fiscal and monetary policy, and financial regulation.

Pascal Bridel held the Chair of Economics at the University of Lausanne and is founder of the Centre Walras-Pareto.

This book examines the changing fortunes of Australian trade unionism in the past 40 years.

The first long-term analysis of the process of structural change and productivity growth in Asia, Europe, Latin America and the USA.

The City: A World History tells the story of the rise and development of urban centers from ancient times to the twenty-first century.

First published in 1999, this book focuses on the macroeconomics issues which directly affect OPEC countries, aiming to set them in the context of the overall development effort.

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Forced Migration, first published in 1982, examines the impact of the slave trade on Africa.

The crucial role played by diseases in economic progress, the growth of civilizations, and American history.

First published in 1997, this book analyses some of the key economic issues facing Europe in the interwar period, against the uncertain international, political and economic background of the time.

First Published in 2005.

'This is a desperately needed book.

It's Our Research: Getting Stakeholder Buy-in for User Experience Research Projects discusses frameworks, strategies, and techniques for working with stakeholders of user experience (UX) research in a way that ensures their buy-in.

Economics is too important to be left to the economists.

Showing how the history of the apple goes far beyond the orchard and into the social, cultural and technological developments of Britain and the USA, this book takes an interdisciplinary approach to reveal the importance of the apple as a symbol of both tradition and innovation.

China will replace the United States as the world's dominant power.

The Prospect of Global History takes a new approach to the study of global history, seeking to apply it, rather than advocate it.