Economic history

Even after the experience of WWII and despite the existence of various institutions such as United Nations to avoid conflict between nations, we have not succeeded in making a world free from war.

How do you break through to impossible-to-reach executive buyers who are intent on blocking out the noise that confronts them every day?

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

In 1644, the news that Antonio de Montezinos claimed to have discovered the Lost Tribes of Israel in the jungles of South America spread across Europe fuelling an already febrile atmosphere of messianic and millenarian expectation.

Transport and mobility history is one of the most exciting areas of historical research at the present.

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

The Law of the Whale Hunt examines how property law was created in the absence of legal institutions regulating whaling in early America.

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.

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

'Jha is the right scholar and economist to take readers through the development of the Indian economy.

During his presidency, FDR led the American public to believe that the US government could set policy that would transform the economy.

In the economic debate, power is defined and studied mainly as an interpersonal relation occurring out of perfect competition.

The hidden history of Wall Street and the White House comes down to a single, powerful, quintessentially American concept: confidence.

Nineteenth-century Brazil’s constitutional monarchy credibly committed to repay sovereign debt, borrowing repeatedly in international and domestic capital markets without default.

This book explores the role of political factors in the occurrence of currency crises, using an eclectic approach that blends case studies, a rigorous theoretical discussion, and econometric analysis.

The Alps, as Professor Bergier shows in this selection of his work, should not be considered an impassable barrier, nor an isolated region, but rather as an integral part of the history of Europe.

The financial crash of 2008 showed the fragility of the financial system.

That there was an influx of silver dirhams from the Muslim world into eastern and northern Europe in the ninth and tenth centuries is well known, as is the fact that the largest concentration of hoards is on the Baltic island of Gotland.

Originally published in 1932, this volume The World's Economic Crisis: and the Way of Escape contains six lectures delivered under the auspices of the Sir Halley Stewart Trust in 1931.

The impressive young scholar Bert Mosselmans, analyzing the theory and policy of Jevons, a major figure in the field of the history of economics, has put together a volume with broad international appeal, particularly in Europe, North America and Japan, that offers a synthetic approach to Jevons' economic theory, applied economics and economic policy.

A pioneering book that takes us beyond economic debate to show how inequality is returning us to a past dominated by empires, dynastic elites, and ethnic divisions.

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.

Canada's social, economic, political, and environmental impacts on the Western Hemisphere have been largely overlooked by historians and other social scientists.

Goods from the East focuses on the fine product trade's first Global Age: how products were made, marketed and distributed between Asia and Europe between 1600 and 1800.

This book offers a discerning narrative on the spectacular rise and fall of the so-called Celtic Tiger economy.

In the two generations before World War I, Germany emerged as Europes foremost industrial power.

A groundbreaking look at Western and Eastern social development from the end of the ice age to todayIn the past thirty years, there have been fierce debates over how civilizations develop and why the West became so powerful.

Before his untimely death in 2000, the brilliant young Israeli economic historian Klug conducted a thorough survey into the different theories of international trade.

Covering the period from November 1918 to the restoration of the Gold Standard in the UK in April 1925, this book, originally published in 1947, sets out and explains the economic facts of the immediate post-war period.

A fundamental reassessment of the contribution of patenting to British industrialisation during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

The great merchant port of Danzig, now Gdansk, is at the centre of this set of studies by Professor Maria Bogucka.

The Physiology of Industry is a remarkable work which set out to challenge contemporary theory surrounding the economics of labour, supply and demand.

"e;from this sea I am fished, / gutted and stripped, / bled and bound, / on your ship I sail, / or go down.

This book, the first of two volumes, explores India's economic development from 5000BC through to the India's independence period from 1947AD to 2022AD.

The field of management and organizational history has reached a level of maturity that means an overview is long overdue.

'Situational Analysis' represents Karl Popper's methodological proposal for the social sciences.

Although it is recognised that Thomas Robert Malthus was wrong when he posited a contradiction between population increase and agricultural growth, there are increasing signs that he could be proved right in the future.

A COMPANION TO THE HISTORY OF THE BOOK A COMPANION TOTHE HISTORY OF THE BOOK Edited by Simon Eliot and Jonathan Rose As a stimulating overview of the multidimensional present state of the field, the Companion has no peer.

In 150 years Italy transformed itself from a poor and backward country into one where living standards are among the highest in the world.

Social and Economic Life in Byzantium is the third selection of papers by the late Nicolas Oikonomides to be published in the Variorum Collected Studies Series; a fourth, Society, Culture and Politics in Byzantium, will follow in 2005.

Best known for reviving the tradition of classical liberalism, F.

This text offers a short account of England's foreign trade in the nineteenth century and looks at the economic and social results of commerce.

This book explores the development of coffee substitutes in nineteenth-century Sweden.

Economic theory in its neoclassical form is sometimes regarded as free from values; it is simply the theory of economic exchange.

Shipbuilding in the United Kingdom provides a systematic historical account of the British Shipbuilders Corporation, first looking at this major industry under private enterprise, then under state control, and finally back in private hands.

This economic, social and cultural analysis of the nature and variety of production and consumption activities in households in Kent and Cornwall yields important new insights on the transition to capitalism in England.