Economic history

This first part of a two-volume series examines in detail the financing of America's major wars from the American Revolution to the Civil War.

Following its foundation in 1957, the European Economic Community set about establishing itself as a major player on the world stage.

Invested examines the perennial and nefarious appeal of financial advice manuals.

Why modern states and economies developed in Europe first, and later in India and China.

This volume historicizes the use of the notion of self-interest that at least since Bernard de Mandeville and Adam Smith's theories is considered a central component of economic theory.

Anti-economics is described as the opposition to the main stream of economic thought that has existed from the Eighteenth-century to the present day.

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

This book sheds new light on the role played by European banks in the economic colonization of much of the globe.

First published in 1968, A History of the Carpenters Company deals with developments in the carpenter's craft as well as with the Company's own internal growth.

Medieval bridges are startling achievements of design and engineering comparable with the great cathedrals of the period, and are also proof of the great importance of road transport in the middle ages and of the size and sophistication of the medieval economy.

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.

In the decades that followed World War II, cheap and plentiful oil helped to fuel rapid economic growth, ensure political stability, and reinforce the legitimacy of liberal democracies.

A seeming constant in the history of capitalism, greed has nonetheless undergone considerable transformations over the last five hundred years.

In pre-industrial societies, in which the majority of the population lived directly off the land, few issues were more important than the maintenance of soil fertility.

Horses played a major role in the military, economic, social and cultural history of early-modern England.

This is a pathbreaking comparative and trans-national study of the neglected influences of nation, empire and race upon the development and electoral fortunes of the Labour Party in Britain and the Australian Labor Party from their formative years of the 1900s to the elections of 2010.

This book explores the history of economic development thought, with an emphasis on alternative approaches in macro development economics.

Kaum eine Wissenschaft hat so viel Einfluss auf unser Leben wie die Wirtschaftswissenschaft.

This book is an enlightening, inspiring, and sobering account of the social and economic transformation of Poland.

There is little doubt that the French Revolution of 1789 changed the course of Western history.

Accounting for Oneself is a major new study of the social order in early modern England, as viewed and articulated from the bottom up.

With the economy struggling, there has been much discussion about the effects of deindustrialization on American manufacturing.

Vocation, or calling - the idea that everyday work is the locus of Christian obedience - is, at first glance, peculiarly a theological notion.

Dieses Buch stellt die Entwicklung der Energiewirtschaft in Ostdeutschland während der Zeit nach dem 2.

A major feat of research and synthesis, this book presents the first comprehensive history of the Dutch economy in the nineteenth century--an important but poorly understood piece of European economic history.

This book seeks to reconcile the dual forces of war and economic globalization in tracing China's early modernity.

The global financial crisis of 2008 was largely unpredicted.

British Policy Towards the Indian States (1982) examines the concept of indirect rule in terms of both its application and consequences in the princely states of India during the first four decades of the twentieth century.

This book explores the role of the informal sector at the beginning of the structural transformation of the Indian economy.

This book explores the interaction between business and the system of taxation in Greece, from the mid-1950s up to 2008, the year that marked the eve of the economic crisis the country faced in the aftermath of the international financial crisis of 2007.

This study is the first in a decade to provide an overview of banking in Brazil.

This book revisits an important chapter of financial history in the Middle East and the Balkans from 1870 1914.

If evolutionary economics is to compete with neoclassical economics as a general-purpose economic theory, it needs to incorporate new aspects of socioeconomic reality, such as institutions of all types, including technical, scientific, and political.

This book presents the lifelong and ongoing research of Lawrence H.

Whilst the early modern period has long been recognized as witnessing a growth in trade and consumerism, the majority of studies to date have tended to focus upon London and southern England.

A Short Economic and Social History of Twentieth Century Britain (1968) overcomes the statistical complexities of the twentieth century by establishing long-term social and economic trends to provide a succinct analysis of Twentieth Century Britain.

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.

This is an important contribution to the new urban history, describing and analysing one of the best examples of a company town in nineteenth-century Europe.

Based on long-term research, this book comprehensively and systematically discusses the industrialization process in China, analyzing the level, characteristics, achievements and experiences as well as the problems faced.

The Financial Image: Finance, Philosophy, and Contemporary Film  draws on a broad range of narrative feature films, documentaries, and moving image installations in the US, Europe, and Asia.

Chronicles the rise of Western Union Telegraph from the early years of telecommunications to its apogee as the first nationwide corporate monopoly in American history.

In the 1980s, Britain actively engaged with China in order to promote globalisation and manage Hong Kong's decolonisation.

Over the course of the 19th century, European societies started thinking of themselves as "e;civilisations of work.

Amongst intellectuals and activists, neoliberalism has become a potent signifier for the kind of free-market thinking that has dominated politics for the past three decades.

This book surveys Poland's move from being a post-feudal, backward, peripheral country to being a modern, capitalist, European state: from the partition of the commonwealth of Poland and Lithuania to the abolishment of 'second serfdom'; late industrialization to state socialism; post-partition fragmentation to post-Second World War westward dislocation; and from the 'Solidarnosc' movement to accession into the European Union.

This book exposes, for the first time in modern scholarship, the role that the rise of the Carry Trade played in British financial crises between 1825 and 1866, how in reaction the Bank of England improved its management of monetary policy after 1866 and how those lessons have been forgotten since the 1970s.

Medieval Rome analyses the history of the city of Rome between 900 and 1150, a period of major change in the city.

First published in 1981, this book concerns itself with the different ways in which money is used, the relationships which then arise, and the institutions concerned in maintaining its various functions.

This book has three main themes: the socio-economic history of Turkish society in the 17th-18th centuries; the outcome of the Tanzimat (Reforms) in the province of Jerusalem, as an example of the whole phenomenon; and the historical origins of Turkish and Arab identities leading to the modern phenomenon of nationalism.