Economic history

After fifty years the Deutsche Bundesbank - the central bank that dominated European monetary affairs - has stepped down to entrust monetary policy to the European Central Bank (ECB).

First Published in 1970.

American Empire in the Pacific explores the empire that emerged from the Oregon Treaty of 1846 with Great Britain and the outcome of the Mexican War in 1848.

Training and Promotion in Nationalised Industry (1951) is the results of a study made into the personnel department and into certain aspects of personnel policy in the nationalised coal, electricity, gas, transport and airways industries in postwar Britain.

Almost all economists, whether classical, neoclassical or Marxist, have failed in their analyses of capitalism to consider the underpinning systems of accounting.

Trade and commerce are among the oldest, most pervasive, and most important of human activities, serving as engines for change in many other human endeavors.

How our stone-age brains made modern society, and why it matters for relationships between men and womenAs countless love songs, movies, and self-help books attest, men and women have long sought different things.

The Gambia Colony and Protectorate (1967) provides both a history of the colony and a wealth of valuable practical and statistical information about its establishment and running.

'The best contemporary map available [of the British state].

A polished and masterly work of historical narrative, The Marshall Plan is an instant classic of Cold War literature.

Early Modern Things supplies fresh and provocative insights into how objects - ordinary and extraordinary, secular and sacred, natural and man-made - came to define some of the key developments of the early modern world.

This book, first published in 1984, examines the economics and political issues raised by foreign investment in mineral development.

This volume examines the leading professional societies since World War II - those in the free market economies of the United States, Britain, France, West Germany and Japan, and those in the collapsed command economies of East Germany and the Soviet Union.

First published in 1904, this important economic work explores some of the leading principles underlining the development of international trade.

This book revisits John Kenneth Galbraith's classic text The Affluent Society in the context of the background to, and causes of, the global economic crisis that erupted in 2008.

First Published in 2005.

Henry George the greatest, most famous and most rejected of early American economists who trained himself in classical economics and developed a theory of a 'single tax'.

From a widely published expert in the field, this major survey reviews two centuries of modernization and examines the dramatic changes in the economies of Eastern Europe.

A book that revolutionised our understanding of English social history.

First Published in 2004.

This history of the global securities market is the product of over 30 years of research by one of the world's foremost financial historians.

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.

Vasco da Gama and His Successors (1970) looks at a range of Portuguese explorers of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the most important being Vasco da Gama, whose first voyage to India ushered in a period of European conquest and empire, and established direct and permanent contact between Europe and the Far East.

Saudi Arabia, the West and the Security of the Gulf (1986) considers the geopolitical environment of the Arab Gulf and the nature and threats to Western interests in the region.

This book contributes to a new economic history of late antiquity, with tightly argued, stimulating studies of class, money and exchange.

Focusing on England, this study reconstructs the centuries-long process of commercialization that gave birth to the modern market society.

Originally published in 1978, The Making of Urban Scotland traces the evolution of towns from their prehistoric origins to the present day.

This book provides an analysis of the process and outcomes of the tax reform, with a focus on progressivity, redistribution, and inequality.

This book seeks to advance social economic analysis, economic methodology, and the history of economic thought in the context of twenty-first-century scholarship and socio-economic concerns.

This volume takes stock of recent research on economic growth, as well as the development of capital and labour markets, during the centuries that preceded the Industrial Revolution.

This book explores the reactions to the Manchurian crisis of different sections of the state, and of a number of different groups in Japanese society, particularly rural groups, women's organizations and business associations.

Samuel Hollander's work has been provoking debate for over four decades.

This book explores the controversial Anglo-American struggle over empire and economic globalization in the mid- to late-nineteenth century.

Prices and wages are the social phenomena most susceptible of objective statistical record over long periods of time.

Drawing on an interdisciplinary panel of contributors, this book presents a stimulating dialogue between economics and art theory and considers how this might aid our understanding of both areas of research.

This book was first published in 1966.

Originally published as a collection in 2006, this volume looks at the eighteenth century, which saw the high point of the Atlantic slave trade.

This work, first published in 1977, is a reissue of a trailblazing work; the first textbook of economic history to deal comprehensively with the economic development of the whole continent in this period and to do so from a continental rather than a British perspective.

Student communities are without doubt a strategic resource for urban development and students are the citizens and the high-skilled working class of tomorrow.

In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, booming demand for natural resources transformed China and its frontiers.

The Communist Economic Challenge (1965) examines the substantial industrial development in the Soviet Union, and its European satellites, and China, looking at Khrushchev's boast that by 1970 the USSR's industrial output would surpass that of the USA.

The Great War and the Moving Image focuses upon the Allied war effort on the Western Front and in the Mediterranean.

Money is a core feature in all discussions of economic crisis, as is clear from the debates about the responses of the European Central Bank and the Federal Reserve Bank of the United States to the 2008 economic crisis.

Economists do more than merely describe an external economic world.

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS), founded in 1930, works as the "e;Bank for Central Banks"e;.