Economic history

Since 2008, we have found ourselves confronted by an historic financial holocaust that world leaders have struggled to come to terms with.

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This unique encyclopedia enables students to understand the myriad ways that the Columbian Exchange shaped the modern world, covering every major living organism from pathogens and plants to insects and mammals.

With England's Great Transformation, Marc W.

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Insight into today's economic and financial problems comes, in this revealing book, from an understanding of how and why the practice and the teaching of management has developed as it has.

Studer shows that institutional, geographical, political, and technological factors account for Europe''s rise to undisputed world economic leader.

This book presents an unorthodox identity economics that approaches social identity through a non-classical psychology.

A riveting look at the financial cycles in American economic history from colonial times to the present day, with an eye on the similarities and differences between past and present conditions as analyzed by leading economic historians.

Originally published in 1967, the modest and plainly descriptive title of Development Projects Observed is deceptive.

The Muspratt family form a fascinating dynasty in the history of British commerce and manufacturing.

This volume is a history of economics - as it was interpreted, discussed and established as a discipline - in the 20th century.

Spiritual Rationality: Papal Embargo as Cultural Practice offers the first book-length study of embargo in a pre-modern period and provides a unique exploration into the domestic implications of this tool of foreign policy.

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Although Otto Neurath left his mark across an array of fields in the first half of the twentieth century, he was trained as an economist and wrote extensively about economics.

A new account of how Haiti under French colonial rule became a violent sugar plantation stateIn the early eighteenth century, France turned to its New World colonies to help rescue the monarchy from the wartime debts of Louis XIV.

The studies in this exceptional volume explore the challenges and opportunities presented by globalization events prior to 1950, and identify how countries around the Mediterranean responded to them.

First published in 1986, The Bulgarian Economy (now with a new preface by the author) traces the rapid growth of the Bulgarian economy throughout the twentieth century.

Literary and Cultural Production, World-Ecology, and the Global Food System marks a significant intervention into the field of literary food studies.

The Absorption of Immigrants (1954) examines the assimilation of immigrants in the Yishuv (the Jewish Community in Palestine) and in the State of Israel.

The unlikely beginnings of the East India Company-from Tudor origins and rivalry with the superior Dutch-to laying the groundwork for future British expansion The East India Company was the largest commercial enterprise in British history, yet its roots in Tudor England are often overlooked.

The two groups arrived in Winslow Township in the middle of the nineteenth century, when modern state bureaucracy was just developing in Lower Canada (Quebec).

This title was first published in 2003.

Historical narrative integrated with graphs based on a unique dataset chronicle the last 200 years of monetary history in Norway.

Migrant Labour in Europe (1987) examines the movement of workers from less prosperous parts of Europe to areas with demand for their services.

For as long as humanity has ventured on the seas, naval warfare has been an integral part of their activities and the focal point for many histories and ideas of heritage.

The collapse of political and economic order in World War One prompted Germany to turn to empire in Eastern Europe.

This edited collection uses a history of economic thought perspective to explore the evolving role of Latin America within the context of globalization.

Between the late fifteenth and early eighteenth centuries, the State of Muscovy emerged from being a rather homogenous Russian-speaking and Orthodox medieval principality to becoming a multi-ethnic and multi-religious empire.

A detailed reconstruction of the peasant society of the Benedictine monastery of Ottobeuren.

Analyzing Sraffa, one of the key figures in the history of economics, this book explores his legacy and the relevance of his thought for modern economics.

How scientific is economics?

In the years that followed World War II, both the United States and the newly formed West German republic had an opportunity to remake their economies.

This volume presents eighteen papers by leading Roman historians and archaeologists discussing trade in the Roman Empire during the period c.

Commemorating the 250th anniversary of James Mill's birth and the 150th of John Stuart Mill's death, this volume analyses the Mills' discussions on topics such as environment, cultivation, education, utilitarianism, socialism, international relations, international trade, and living standard.

In Asia the 1950s were dominated by political decolonization and the emergence of the Cold War system, and newly independent countries were able to utilize the transformed balance of power for their own economic development through economic and strategic aid programmes.

David Ricardo's theories have been widely studied and discussed, including the prominent theory on comparative advantage.

Americans Experience Russia analyzes how American scholars, journalists, and artists envisioned, experienced, and interpreted Russia/the Soviet Union over the last century.

Ranging from Connacht to Constantinople and from Tynemouth to Timbuktu, the forty-four contributors to The Medieval World seek to bring the Middle Ages to life, offering definitive appraisals of the distinctive features of the period.

When European powers annexed parts of Asia, banking systems were an important part of that process.

The Ancient Greek Economy: Markets, Households and City-States brings together sixteen essays by leading scholars of the ancient Greek economy.

2017 marked the seventy-fifth anniversary of Schumpeter's Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy, a work acknowledged as one of the most insightful books written in the twentieth century.

This timely and authoritative set explores three centuries of good times and hard times in major economies throughout the world.

Japan is the great economic success story of the postwar period, growing at unprecedented rates to become one of the world's most advanced industrial nations.

Originally published in 1987, this book is based on research concerned primarily with the Central Industrial Region.

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

This book aims to explain the secret to China's rapid growth over the last 40 years from the viewpoint of a firsthand witness.