Economic history

This book puts the legacies of slavery squarely back into modern British history.

Based on the paradigms of economics and management, inspired by the history of technology and the sociology of technological change, the concepts of shared inventions and competitive innovations make it possible to analyze the industrialization of the world in a fresh and efficient way.

Taking ancient records as the starting point for analysis, this book theorises the state, administration and economy of ancient Egypt.

This study shows that modernity has its origins in the advancement of knowledge, and not in the Scientific Revolution.

Literary Representations of Precarious Work, 1840 to the Present sheds new light on literary representations of precarious labor from 1840 until the present.

An Economic History of Malaysia, c.

This book presents a new economic history of London construction in the early modern period.

This book concludes The Industrialisation of Soviet Russia, an authoritative account of the Soviet Union's industrial transformation between 1929 and 1939.

The book examines the history of co-operation in the broad context of the history of consumerism and consumption; of internationalism and the development of international organisations; and debates about international trade during the inter-war period.

A detailed examination of economic policy-making in the USSR during the period of the Second Five-Year Plan (1933-1937).

Most of what has been written on the economy of the middle ages is deeply influenced by abstract concepts and theories.

Pareto's Manual of Political Economy, first published in 1905, introduced the analytical approach which has characterised a significant part of twentieth century economic theory.

In this ambitious book Christian Petersen has taken a central topic in economic and social history and given it a new sweep and coherence.

The relationship of economics, capitalism and wealth to the ethics and morality of religion has intrigued and challenged policymakers, pressure groups, theologians, sociologists, economists and historians for centuries.

Just Taxes offers an analysis of the politics of taxation in the twentieth century.

This 2002 book gives a historical and comparative perspective on family business.

Leading historians examine how financial innovations have challenged established institutional arrangements from the seventeenth century to the present.

Aus der Aktualität des Regelwerks von Basel III resultieren neue Fragestellungen, denen sich Martin Windl auf Basis von mikroökonomischen Modellen nähert.

This book provides a theoretical and historical examination of the evolution of money.

The Development of International Monetary Policy traces the development of international monetary policy from mercantilism to quantitative easing.

An insightful portrait of junk-bond powerhouse Drexel Burnham Lambert and infamous financier Michael Milken, one of the most brilliant minds ever to have been dedicated to Wall Street's money games.

Originally published in 1984.

First published in 1968.

In 1929-30, the 'spinal year' of the first five-year plan, a vast investment programme began the transformation of the Soviet Union from a peasant country into a great industrial power.

This book looks at how the fledgling British East India Company state of the 1760s developed into the mature Anglo-Indian empire of the 19th century.

The Human Geography of East Central Europe examines the geography of the transition economies that were not formerly part of the Soviet Union: Albania, Bosnia & Hercegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, The Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Yugoslavia and East Germany.

The Occupation era (1945-1952) witnessed major change in Japan and the beginnings of its growth from of the ashes of defeat towards its status as a developmental model for much of the world.

This volume deals with issues of widespread interest including, the origins of investor rights in different markets, the political, legal and economic conditions that determine levels of shareholder participation, and the implications of variation in investor rights.

One of the most persistent, powerful, and dangerous notions in the history of the Jews in the diaspora is the prodigious talent attributed to them in all things economic.

Peter Groenewegen is one of the world's foremost scholars of eighteenth century economics - the era that saw the effective 'mainstreaming' of the discipline in the work of Smith, Turgot and Quesnay.

This book examines one of the most important economic outcomes in American history-the breakdown of the Keynesian Revolution.

It is commonly held that the inter-war era marked little more than a ceasefire between two world wars, with the improvement in German-Allied relations forged at Locarno in 1925 cut short by the global economic turmoil that followed the 1929 Wall Street Crash.

This book presents the history of the British Empire as the "e;Bridge"e; for creating a Global History, especially emphasizing its connections with Asian regions.

Countries that have suffered ethnic or religious conflict and become segregated societies reflect these divisions in education provision for their children.

This second volume on the political and social economy of financialization in the US focuses on the consequences of the rise of finance for the American macroeconomy, household inequality, and the management of nonfinancial business enterprises.

This book is the first systematic study of how the interdependence of fiscal and monetary policies and the interaction of party governments and central banks affect the fiscal-policy mix in eighteen industrial democracies in North America, Western Europe, Japan and Oceania.

The economy of ancient Rome, with its long-range trade, widespread moneylending, and companies of government contractors, was surprisingly modern.

The economics of the movie industry has been curiously neglected by scholars, especially given the material circumstances in which film has been produced, distributed and exhibited in capitalist economies and its central importance in the lives of the huge numbers attracted to it as a commodity.

This engaging survey of the Space Age links science and technology with politics and popular culture, war and peace, and crises and controversies.

This book illuminates the work of Werner Sombart, a key contemporary of Max Weber, showing how his writing and thinking laid the groundwork for concepts of modern capitalism.

This book reflects China's experience, model and theory of successful inflation control.

First published in 1965.

Who were the great thinkers on international finance in the mid-twentieth century?

Since the 16th century, Paris has been a leading arbiter of taste and the ultimate source of luxury goods for Europe and the world.

First Published in 1968.

A Silent Revolution?

This book explains how and why the state-socialist regime in Hungary used technology and propaganda to foster industrialization and the conservation of natural resources simultaneously.