Economic history

When the railroad stretched its steel rails across the American West in the 1870s, it opened up a vast expanse of territory with very few people but enormous agricultural potential: a second Western frontier, the garden West.

Companies that Changed the World tells the fascinating stories of 50 joint-stock companies - or companies based on that model - that have exerted a critical influence on the social and economic history of the past four hundred years.

The story of the 19th-century ice trade, in which ice from the lakes of New England - valued for its incredible purity - revolutionised domestic life around the world.

A fascinating exploration of the relationship of competition and assimilation between the Netherlands and England during the 17th century, revealing the ways in which Dutch tolerance, resilience and commercial acumen effectively conquered Britain by reshaping its intellectual landscape, long before Dutch monarchs sat on the English throne.

Max Arthur, bestselling author of the hugely popular 'Forgotten Voices' series, recaptures the day-to-day lives of working people in the Edwardian era.

Your morning flat-white helped shape the modern world'Elegantly written, witty and so wide in scope, so rich in detail and so thought provoking' Joanna BlythmanIt may seem like just a drink, but coffee's dark journey from the highlands of Ethiopia to the highstreets of every town in the country links alchemy and anthropology, poetry and politics, science and slavery.

In No Turning Back, Paul Addison takes the long view, charting the vastly changing character of British society since the end of the Second World War.

A pesar de la importancia de la empresa y su rol social en el desarrollo de nuestro país, no existe una tradición que permita acceder a su historia y evolución.

Desde el desempleo masivo de trabajadores hasta la consumación de golpes militares, La Gran Depresión en América Latina presenta una serie de artículos que analizan las consecuencias que tuvo la crisis económica de 1929 en los países de esta región del planeta.

"Esta es una explicación del origen y formación de empresas rurales en Antioquia y toma como casos las haciendas y hacendados en la ganadería vacuna de leche en el Oriente y sus pares en la ganadería vacuna de carne en el Magdalena Medio.

Este libro es un reconocimiento y homenaje a la trayectoria cientifica y academica del profesor Paulino Iradiel, asi como a su importante contribucion a la historia economica y social de la Edad Media, justo cuando llega a los 75 anos de edad y se cumplen tambien 40 de su llegada a Valencia.

Geld und Gene haben viel gemeinsam – jedenfalls wenn das Geld als Kapital auftritt.

El capitalismo no es ni una consecuencia inevitable de la naturaleza humana, ni una mera ampliación de antiguas prácticas comerciales cuyos orígenes se pierden en la noche de los tiempos.

Este es un libro fascinante sobre desigualdad e impuestos en Chile.

Este libro es un reconocimiento y homenaje a la trayectoria cientifica y academica del profesor Paulino Iradiel, asi como a su importante contribucion a la historia economica y social de la Edad Media, justo cuando llega a los 75 anos de edad y se cumplen tambien 40 de su llegada a Valencia.

Recordamos la utopía desde una sola mirada: sociedades paritarias y felices sin diferencias ni clases sociales.

La conquista del Nuevo Mundo trajo grandes beneficios para los países colonizadores que, a través de nuevas instituciones como el sistema colonial y sus haciendas, latifundios y plantaciones pudieron atender sus demandas de alimentos, materias primas y acumulación de capital.

La conquista del Nuevo Mundo trajo grandes beneficios para los países colonizadores que, a través de nuevas instituciones como el sistema colonial y sus haciendas, latifundios y plantaciones pudieron atender sus demandas de alimentos, materias primas y acumulación de capital.

'A very important book about one of the last social taboos - with fascinating implications for us all' Helena Kennedy, QCA groundbreaking book in which Dorothy Rowe brings her insight and wisdom to the fascinating subject of money and its place in our lives.

Sylvia Nasar, the author of the phenomenal bestseller A Beautiful Mind takes us on a journey through the epic story of the making of modern economics, and how it rescued mankind from squalor and deprivation by placing its material fate in its own hands, rather than in Fate.

Three thousand years of Chinese history in an accessible and authoritative single volume.

The modern vision of the world as one dominated by one or more superpowers begs the question of how best to understand the world-system that existed before the rise of the first modern powers.

First published in 1998, this volume is a contribution to the economic analysis of post-communist transformation in an evolutionary-institutionalist approach.

First published in 1998, this volume is a contribution to the economic analysis of post-communist transformation in an evolutionary-institutionalist approach.

Throughout the twentieth century, Wales underwent rapid and far-reaching economic upheavals on such a scale that few avoided their impacts - from recessions, war, changing fortunes within the iconic steel and coal industries, the rise and decline of manufacturing, as well as the gradual rise to dominance of the service sector - the changes were as dramatic as was the intensity of attempts to deal with their consequences.

The modern vision of the world as one dominated by one or more superpowers begs the question of how best to understand the world-system that existed before the rise of the first modern powers.

Can capitalism promote effective philanthropy and altruism?

The author of the Horrible Histories series tells the unpleasant truth about what the poor have endured in this sharp-witted, pull-no-punches book.

Britain's rise to global dominance from the 16th century owed as much to the vision and creativity of traders, industrialists and bankers as it did to wars of conquest fought by military men.

Throughout the twentieth century, Wales underwent rapid and far-reaching economic upheavals on such a scale that few avoided their impacts - from recessions, war, changing fortunes within the iconic steel and coal industries, the rise and decline of manufacturing, as well as the gradual rise to dominance of the service sector - the changes were as dramatic as was the intensity of attempts to deal with their consequences.

In the eight pieces that make up Land Without History, first published in Portuguese in 1909, Euclides da Cunha offers a rare look into twentieth century Amazonia, and the consolidation of South American nation states.

'Superb' - Tim Harford, author of How to Make the World Add Up Money is essential to the economy and how we live our lives, yet is inherently worthless.

The amazing true story of how London became home to the Russian super-rich - told for the first time ever.

Tanto las crisis financieras —la asiática de 1997 y de 2008, que sacudieron el sistema económico mundial— como los virajes políticos —las victorias electorales de la izquierda en Latinoamérica, la llamada "marea rosa" desde finales de los años noventa —, incluso la controversial elección del empresario y político Donald Trump como presidente de los Estados Unidos, facultaron con regularidad, en el discurso teórico y en la opinión pública, la pregunta por el fin de la era del neoliberalismo.

El señorío, como base material de la hegemonía social de la aristocracia, ha constituido uno de los temas de estudio centrales del medievalismo europeo.

¿Es posible que estemos retrocediendo a los niveles de desigualdad previos a la Primera Guerra Mundial?

No hay dudas de que los economistas adquirieron, en las últimas décadas, una influencia social y política decisiva.

En el marco de la apertura económica en América Latina, iniciado desde finales de la década de los años ochenta, la inversión extranjera directa (IED) se ha constituido como un indicador macroeconómico de transcendencia.

"El Magdalena es un territorio conocido por la importancia estratégica de sus ecosistemas y su riqueza cultural.

The Princess Must Marry.

The Marketplace of Revolution offers a boldly innovative interpretation of the mobilization of ordinary Americans on the eve of independence.

Populism of the right and left has spread like wildfire throughout the world.

The Marketplace of Revolution offers a boldly innovative interpretation of the mobilization of ordinary Americans on the eve of independence.

Populism of the right and left has spread like wildfire throughout the world.

Nineteenth-century globalization made America exceptional.

This is the first modern publication of ten essays published in the popular Boston newspaper The Independent Chronicle, a significant intellectual event in Massachusetts politics.

A Treatise on Political Economy by Antoine Louis Claude Destutt de Tracy (1754-1836) is a foundational text of nineteenth-century, free-market economic thought and remains one of the classics of nineteenth-century French economic liberalism.