Economic history

Scholars attribute the collapse of the Soviet Union in part to the militarization of its economy.

This survey of the rise and decline of English watchmaking fills a gap in the historiography of British industry.

The project of global art history calls for balanced treatment of artifacts and a unified approach.

This revision of Professor Goodman's earlier work, The Dutch Impact on Japan, originally published in 1967, was brought up-to-date with much new information in 1986 in response to renewed interest in the Dutch influence on Japan during the so-called 'closed centuries' between 1640 and 1853.

A number of changes in the English economy during the eighteenth century marked the inception of the modern industrialised world.

Originally published in 1976.

Religion and the Early Modern British Marketplace explores the complex intersection between the geographic, material, and ideological marketplaces through the lens of religious belief and practice.

This collection of studies (the eighth by David Jacoby) covers a period witnessing intensive geographic mobility across the Mediterranean, illustrated by a growing number of Westerners engaging in pilgrimage, crusade, trading and shipping, or else driven by sheer curiosity.

This book seeks to diagnose and analyze the social, economic and technological consequences of the 2008 financial crisis, which brought epochal changes to our lives.

This volume of essays builds upon renewed interest in the long-run global development of wealth and inequality stimulated by the publication of Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century.

This book provides a basic outline of the history of the American steel industry, a sector of the economy that has been an important part of the industrial system.

This edited collection addresses concepts of value and its impact on economies and economic decision-making in Mesoamerica.

During an election speech in 1957 the Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan, famously remarked that 'most of our people have never had it so good'.

From West Indian sugar and bottles of Southeast Asian arrack to French red wines, English felt cloth, and Mediterranean lemons, many global wares ended up in the Scandinavian borderlands during the late eighteenth century.

This is the first book to describe the early English woollens' industry and its dominance of the trade in quality cloth across Europe by the mid-sixteenth century, as English trade was transformed from dependence on wool to value-added woollen cloth.

This book explores the Swedish experience of banking development, regulation and financial crisis from 1900 to 2015.

Labor and Imperial Democracy in Prewar Japan examines the political role played by working men and women in prewar Tokyo and offers a reinterpretation of the broader dynamics of Japan's prewar political history.

Dieses unbekannte Kapitel der jüngsten Geschichte handelt vom Mut und der Phantasie der Franzosen, ihre wertvollsten Weine vor der deutschen Besatzung zu retten: Eisenbahner ließen ganze Züge mit Weinlieferungen im Nichts verschwinden.

This pioneering work examines Japan's economic activities in Singapore from 1870 to 1965.

A call to transform the way we think about property, this book examines how capitalism has from its origins sought to enclose or privatize the commons, or land and other forms of property that had been viewed as communally owned, and argues that neoliberal economic policies and the corporate takeovers of urban spaces, prisons, schools, the mass media, farms, and natural resources have failed to serve the public interest.

The Ottoman Empire (1299-1923) existed at the crossroads of the East and the West.

A detailed historical look at how copyright was negotiated and protected by authors, publishers, and the state in late imperial and modern ChinaIn Pirates and Publishers, Fei-Hsien Wang reveals the unknown social and cultural history of copyright in China from the 1890s through the 1950s, a time of profound sociopolitical changes.

This book was first published in 1985.

The objective of this book is to analyze and compare the processes of corporate expansion of postwar Japan and Germany.

First published in 2005.

Many British cities were devastated by bombing during the Second World War and faced stark economic dilemmas concerning reconstruction planning and implementation after 1945.

Brexit is likely to lead to the largest shift in Britain's economic orientation in living memory.

Before the advent of synthetic fibers and cargo containers, jute sacks were the preferred packaging material of global trade, transporting the world's grain, cotton, sugar, tobacco, coffee, wool, guano, and bacon.

By the end of the nineteenth century Belgium was enjoying considerable economic success.

Smith's Wealth of Nations, Marx's Capital, and Keynes's General Theory are three paradigmatic texts which are foundational to any study of economics or political economy.

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Is inclusiveness in the commons and sustainability a paradox?

This book reconstructs the business world of the eleventh-century Geniza merchants and, in doing so, rewrites medieval Islamic and Mediterranean economic history.

Published in the year 1969, Essentials of Petroleum is a valuable contribution to the field of Geography.

This volume focuses on the history and company of Renold Chains and the rise of the Precision Chain Industry between 1879 and 1955.

This book looks at Chester I.

By bridging the gap between linguistics and economics, this book sheds light on a range of mutually valuable topics.

A collection of essays by Nobel laureate Robert W.

James Grants story of Americas last governmentally untreated depression: A bible for conservative economists, this carefully researched historymakes difficult economic concepts easy to understand, and it deftly mixes major events with interesting vignettes (The Wall Street Journal).

Francis Watkins was an eminent figure in his field of mathematical and optical instrument making in mid-eighteenth century London.

Located within the plantation economy model of the "e;New World Group"e; of The University of the West Indies, this book explores how the changes in the European Union's sugar regime impacted a sugar-dependent community in Jamaica.

Business Statistics of the United States is a comprehensive and practical collection of data from as early as 1913 that reflects the nation's economic performance.

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This is the terrifying story of China's vampire economy.

This pamphlet examines recent research into the poor laws of Tudor and Stuart England.

In Out of Stock, Dara Orenstein delivers an ambitious and engrossing account of that most generic and underappreciated site in American commerce and industry: the warehouse.

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