Economic history

Rewriting Hong Kong's history from the bottom up, the chapters investigate vital, but hitherto obscured, aspects of the colony's rise.

In 1995, the Baring Brothers collapsed over a weekend, brought down by the 'rogue trader' Nick Leeson.

This book is a history of outdoor advertising control in Britain between the early-nineteenth century and the beginning of the 1960s.

A boldly revisionist history of the first disputes in nineteenth-century Britain over the role of economists in society Economics now so dominates our understanding of how the world works that some of the field's most influential concepts seem akin to natural laws.

This book examines the emergence of imperial state in East Asia during the period ca.

This book offers an innovative study of trade, production and consumption across the Indian Ocean between the years 1750 and 1850.

This book examines the strategies pursued by the Colonies and the other combatants in the American War for Independence, placing the conflict in its proper global context.

This edition brings together the most important English language tracts and pamphlets and other material on the origins and development of private banking, joint stock banking, central banking and other important related questions.

Debt, private and public, and in particular excessive debt, has been debated to be one of the root causes of economic crises.

This study explores the consumption practices of the landed aristocracy of Georgian England.

This is the first English translation of one of the classical works of Marxist economic theory.

A detailed examination of the industrial development of Japan since the Meiji Restoration.

This book takes a comparative approach to economic history to offer ways to increase our understanding of the divergence between South America and Scandinavia.

Imperialism and Social Reform (1960) examines British social-imperialism and the development of social-imperial thought: the promotion of a 'people's imperialism', or the support of the working classes for the imperialist system.

Flanders, best known for its large cities and export-grade woollen cloth, is the setting for these articles.

This volume introduces new perspectives on taxation policies in the Roman Empire, the Galilee, and Egypt, with unique insights into the economic effects of imperial pacification on local and regional microlevel economies in the Galilee both before and after the First Jewish Revolt against Rome.

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This book gives a comprehensive account of the history and underlying economics of the modern art market in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain.

A Land of Dreams, first published in 1993, explores two events in recent English history: the settlement of East European Jews in the East End of London, and the growth of an African-Caribbean community in Birmingham.

This book reconstructs the origins and spread of precious metal money in the Iron Age eastern Mediterranean (1200–600 BCE).

Within the theoretical framework of the trade-growth and structural transformation-growth nexuses, the book examines the evolution of African (goods and service) trade in terms of value and share of global commerce relative to other regions during the period 1948-2017.

History and Economic Life offers students a wide-ranging introduction to both quantitative and qualitative approaches to interpreting economic history sources from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century.

Why was early modern Europe the starting point of the economic expansion which led to the Industrial Revolution?

For centuries artists, diplomats, and merchants served as cultural intermediaries in the Mediterranean.

An authoritative economic history of Israel from its founding to the presentIn 1922, there were ninety thousand Jews in Palestine, a small country in a poor and volatile region.

First published in 1998, this volume, spanning a lifetime's research, is a highly innovative first attempt at a consistent theoretical approach to the elements, structures and dynamics of the geography of agents, settlements and trade.

Britain's role in the mid-nineteenth century as the world's greatest economic power was an extraordinary phenomenon, foreshadowed in the Industrial Revolution of the century before and originating from a unique combination of global and indigenous factors.

Originally published in 1991, user charges and earmarked taxes are methods by which people pay directly for the services they recieve from government.

This edited volume analyzes land utilization data from farm surveys taken in China between 1929 and 1933.

This new edition has been rewritten to provide an up-to-date, clear and comprehensive account of the most important developments currently taking place in the world economy.

A new way to understand financial crises-and a blueprint for tomorrow's recoveryThe Leaderless Economy reveals why international financial cooperation is the only solution to today's global economic crisis.

This book offers a comprehensive business history of one of the largest global brewing companies.

Out of the ashes of its defeat in World War II, Japan arose to become the foremost economic power in the East Asia and a major player on the world economic stage.

This book contains a set of notes prepared by Ragnar Frisch for a lecture series that he delivered at Yale University in 1930.

The political economist Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834) has gained increasing and deserved scholarly attention in recent years.

Professor Youngson's book is an ubiased review of Britain's past experience and present difficulties.

What buried secret lies beneath the stones of one of England's greatest former churches and shrines?

This wide-ranging book focuses on the economic and political changes that have taken place between the advent of globalization and the COVID-19 pandemic and assesses how this may bring about a profound reconfiguration of the global political system.

The level of Japanese investment and the arrival of Japanese companies in North East England was one of the success stories in the 1970's and 80's.

This book, first published in 1934, provides a discussion of the important facts and underlying principles of the financial problems that the American people were facing after the Great Depression.

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First published 1935, this title presents a series of recollections, some intimately personal, others bearing on the great social, cultural and political issues that faced the Jews and the European population more generally during the first part of the twentieth century.

First published in 1989, this book seeks to demonstrate the social and political images of late-twentieth century London - the post-big-bang city, docklands, trade union defeats, a mounting north-south divide - do not mark as decisive break with the past as they may appear to.

One of the foremost writers of her time, Harriet Martineau established her reputation by writing a hugely successful series of fictional tales on political economy whose wide readership included the young Queen Victoria.

This book examines the role of uncertainty on financial decisions - and, consequently, on financial markets - in the buildup to and aftermath of the Great Recession.

This books explains, on the basis of archival evidence and a simple economic model, why and how the gold standard collapsed in the interwar period.