Economic history

Originally published as a collection in 2006, this volume discusses the development of the Atlantic slave trade in the seventeenth century, looking at issues such as how African societies reacted to the trade; the economic origins of black slavery in the British West Indies; and the growth of plantations responding to changes in European diet - particularly the rise of the sugar economy.

How should we address today's big problems, and what we can take from icons of economics past?

This volume reiterates the relevance of imperialism in the present, as a continuous arrangement, from the early years of empire-colonies to the prevailing pattern of expropriation across the globe.

This book investigates the impact of commercial banks in Kenya right through from their origins, to their role during the colonial period, the process of adaptation following independence, and up to their responses to new challenges and economic policies in the twenty-first century.

'Big data' is now readily available to economic historians, thanks to the digitisation of primary sources, collaborative research linking different data sets, and the publication of databases on the internet.

The impact of Communism on the twentieth century was massive, equal to that of the two world wars.

Renaissance map-makers produced ever more accurate descriptions of geography, which were also beautiful works of art.

While earlier studies have focused predominantly on artist Francois Boucher's artistic style and identity, this book presents the first full-length interdisciplinary study of Boucher's prolific collection of around 13,500 objects including paintings, sculpture, prints, drawings, porcelain, shells, minerals, and other imported curios.

Part of the library of Science and Public Affairs and originally published in 1851, this study relates views of the industry, science and the Government of England in 1851.

As the second volume of a two-volume set on the Chinese economic history, this book investigates Chinese economic development since 1949, uncovering the momentum, unique models, and general laws of economy in China.

China held a unique place in European thought during the eighteenth century.

This book challenges the widely-held belief that popular narratives about business are invariably critical.

As late as the mid 1980s, Iceland's economy revolved around little else than a semi-robust cod-fishing industry.

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

This title, first published in 1986, develops the story of American woollen manufacture reaching far back in time to establish the very traditional nature of the fabrication of woollen cloths.

First published in 1978, Professor O'Brien's Economic Growth in Britain and France 1780-1914 is an original and pioneering exercise in comparative and quantitative economic history.

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.

Timothy Smith argues that the French economy and society is in crisis and that globalization is not to blame.

These papers explore the history of the tropical regions of the Atlantic basin, sometimes focused on the Caribbean, sometimes on Africa, but always with a comparative dimension.

Volume II of the Oxford History of the British Empire examines the history of British worldwide expansion from the Glorious Revolution of 1689 to the end of the Napoleonic Wars, a crucial phase in the creation of the modern British Empire.

When the Chinese economic reforms began in 1978, Marxist economics infused all the institutions of economic theory in China, from academic departments and economics journals to government departments and economic think tanks.

This book is part of a series which makes available to English-speaking audiences the work of the individual Chinese economists who were the architects of China's economic reform.

Frank David Ascoli's Revenue History of Sundarbans during the Period 1870- 1920 looks at the area bounded on the north by the limits of Permanent Settlement in 24-Parganas, Khulna and Bakarganj districts and on the south by the sea face stretching from the Hughli estuary to the mouth of the Meghna River.

The form of 'reflexivity' - defined by the dictionary as that which is 'directed back upon itself' - that is most relevant to economic methodology is that where observation of the economy leads to ideas that change behavior, which in turn changes (is directed back upon) the economy itself.

First published in 1967, Industrial Relations in the British Printing Industry was written to provide a comprehensive picture of the development of organisations of both employers and those employed in the British printing industry.

The emergence of a 'new' democratic South Africa under Nelson Mandela was regarded as a high watermark for international ideals of human rights and democracy.

Originally published in 1991, this book examines the spatial implications of the changes to the automobile industry at world, national and local levels.

Asia's Population Problems (1967) features papers written by specialists - demographers, economists and sociologists - examining the various population issues facing different Asian countries in the decades following the Second World War.

An authoritative look at recent developments in China's approach to educating its young--and what it means for the rest of the worldCovering psychological ideology, moral education, and current reforms, The History of Chinese Modern Educational Thought summarizes recent developments in Chinese education practices.

In diesem Buch werden die persönlichen Begegnungen von Friedrich List (1789-1846) mit bedeutenden historischen Zeitzeugen nachgezeichnet, die für das Verständnis seiner Lebens- und Wirkungsgeschichte bedeutsam waren.

It has often been assumed that the subjects of the Ottoman sultans were unable to travel beyond their localities - since peasants needed the permission of their local administrators before they could legitimately leave their villages.

This book utilizes historical evidence to describe the development of the Toyota Production System (TPS).

Globalisation and the governance of the international financial system have arrived at the crossroads, where either a coherent level playing field for the cross-border activities of banks and multinational enterprises is settled upon, or the risk of another crisis will build up again.

This book critically analyses the crisis of the euro currency from 2008 to the present.

The common understanding of physiocracy - the school of eighteenth-century political economy associated with thinkers such as Boisguillebert and Quesnay - is often confined to the view that it considered agriculture the only source of wealth, and manufacture, trade and export as unproductive.

The story of personal debt in modern AmericaBefore the twentieth century, personal debt resided on the fringes of the American economy, the province of small-time criminals and struggling merchants.

For some twenty-five years after 1949, China did not exist and the country was only rediscovered in the 1970s.

Thomas Malthus identified a crucial tension at the heart of a market economy: While an accumulation of wealth is necessary to provide the capital investment needed to generate growth, too much accumulation will cause planned saving to exceed profitable investment, which will result in secular stagnation, a condition of low growth and underemployment of resources.

In 1940 few Americans had heard of mutual funds.

Germany's ability to support its war machine financially has long puzzled scholars.

A pathbreaking history of art that uses digital research and economic tools to reveal enduring inequities in the formation of the art historical canonPainting by Numbers presents a groundbreaking blend of art historical and social scientific methods to chart, for the first time, the sheer scale of nineteenth-century artistic production.

The people who run our government are affected by money just like the rest of us.

First published in 1930, the author asserts that this book presents a human India 'in all sorts of conditions and moods'.

The story of the Civil War and Reconstruction in Greene County, Georgia, is a remarkable tale of both fundamental change and essential continuity.

In the years between the Great Famine of the 1840s and the First World War, Ireland experienced a drastic drop in population: the percentage of adults who never married soared from 10 percent to 25 percent, while the overall population decreased by one third.

Race, Nation, and Capital in the Modern World is a comprehensive yet concise book that traces the history of racism, nationalism and capitalism from their combined origins at the end of the fifteenth century to the present.

In 1892, John Elliott Tappan, a twenty-four year old Minneapolis lawyer, was worried how people saved their money.

At the start of the eighteenth century Louis XIV needed to remit huge sums of money abroad to support his armies during the War of the Spanish Succession.