Economic history

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.

In this book, Nobel Prize-winning economist Edmund Phelps draws on a lifetime of thinking to make a sweeping new argument about what makes nations prosper--and why the sources of that prosperity are under threat today.

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Colonial Planning (1958) breaks new ground in its study of colonial development plans on a comparative basis.

First Published in 2005.

In its more than 65 years of existence, the International Monetary Fund has evolved from a small, obscure international agency, with new and uncertain responsibilities, into a powerful institution that today has assumed center stage in the international monetary system.

First Published in 2005.

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Kurz nach Beginn des Zweiten Weltkrieges wurden hunderttausende Bewohner der Grenzregionen zwischen Deutschland und Frankreich evakuiert.

Now in its seventh edition, Ingrid Rima's classic textbook charts the development of the discipline from the classical age of Plato and Aristotle, through the middle ages to the first flowering of economics as a distinct discipline - the age of Petty, Quesnay and Smith - to the era of classical economics and the marginalist revolution.

Why has history so often turned the economic and political hierarchy of nations topsy-turvy?

How the rise of the West was a temporary exception to the predominant world orderWhat accounts for the rise of the state, the creation of the first global system, and the dominance of the West?

First published by the University of South Carolina in 1952, Ersatz in the Confederacy remains the definitive study of the South's desperate struggle to overcome critical shortages of food, medicine, clothing, household goods, farming supplies, and tools during the Civil War.

This volume is the first full-length biography of Jean-Baptiste Say (1767-1832), the most famous French classical economist.

This ground-breaking collection reveals the networks of interrelation between Early Modern England and the Dutch Republic.

This book investigates the changing nature of economic policies following the Global Financial Crisis of 2007-9.

Since Tsarist times, Russia's leaders, rather than pursue economic growth for its own sake, have sought control over economic activity as a means to manage their own support base, respond to perceived security threats and to facilitate their wider geopolitical ambitions.

East Africa (1971) examines the century from 1870 that saw the emergence of East Africa from an ancient isolation into the modern world.

This book, first published in 2007, describes the sharp right turn the US has taken following Ronald Reagan''s election in 1980.

This book provides a fully revised and up-to-date analysis of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU).

Local Government in West Africa (1964) examines colonial and independent local government in Nigeria, Ghana and Sierra Leone.

This book deals with risk management and the organisation of banking in Swedish savings banks alongside the development in other European countries.

Originally published in 1933 this book discusses the inadequacy of 'orthodox Gold Standard theory' in the light of post-war monetary phenomena.

The market town has been dismissed as an incompletely formed urban community; in fact it was the primary urban unit in pre-industrial England.

In the twilight of the Renaissance, the grand duke of Tuscany-a scion of the fabled Medici family of bankers-invited foreign merchants, artisans, and ship captains to settle in his port city of Livorno.

Neoclassical economics has been criticized from various angles by orthodox schools.

This volume brings together a group of scholars to consider the rituals of eating together in the Byzantine world, the material culture of Byzantine food and wine consumption, and the transport and exchange of agricultural products.

After such conflicts as World War II, Vietnam, and now the Persian Gulf, the First World War seems a distant, almost ancient event.

First Published in 1972.

Reveals the relationship between social spending and economic growth and which countries have got it right and wrong.

The Human Geography of East Central Europe examines the geography of the transition economies that were not formerly part of the Soviet Union: Albania, Bosnia & Hercegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, The Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Yugoslavia and East Germany.

Here is a fascinating compact history of Chinese political, economic, and cultural life, ranging from the origins of civilization in China to the beginning of the 21st century.

Major account of the fourteenth-century crisis which saw a series of famines, revolts and epidemics transform the medieval world.

This book traces in an accurate and objective manner the sequence of events during the last twenty years which have influenced the organization fo the Canadian grain trade.

Sidney Pollard has provided a concise survey of economic issues for students of the European community.

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.

Bringing together essays from experts in a variety of disciplines, this collection explores two of the most important facets of life within the medieval Europe: money and the church.

This book investigates cases in which national and international activities have gone massively wrong, entailing seriously negative consequences.

Using luxury goods as a conduit, Luxury in Global Perspective enriches our understanding of global history.

This title was first published in 2002: From Individualism to the Individual treats finance as a social and cultural process, exploring the unseen side of academic discourse and the many obstacles the deeply entrenched elite puts in the way of alternative thinking.

Shipping is by far the most significant mode of transportation for the carriage of freight.

This book sets the record straight on why the Federal Reserve failed to rescue Lehman Brothers during the financial crisis.

At a micro level, this collection unveils the contractual knowledge that led to the globalization of markets over the last century.

Originally published in 1988.

This book explores Eastern European consumer cultures in the twentieth century, taking a comparative perspective and conceptualizing the peculiarities of consumption in the region.

This book examines the controlling influences that drive macroeconomic policies in the United States.

While unification has undoubtedly had major effects on Germany's political economy, the pattern of current policy-making preferences was established at an earlier stage, in particular, at the beginning of the 'Kohl-era' in 1982.