Economic history

While Latin expansion stalled in the Eastern Mediterranean in the late Middle Ages, Islam lost ground to Christendom in the west - in the Spanish Levant, the islands of the Western Mediterranean, and even on the Maghribi coast, where conquerors and colonists from the northern shore of the sea established footholds.

Ben Bernanke's history of the Federal Reserve and its response to the 2008 financial crisisIn 2012, Ben Bernanke, chairman of the U.

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Conquering the Fear of Freedom presents an analytical review of Japanese exchange rate policy from the end of World War II to the present.

"e;Timothy Earle has set out to offer the most comprehensive view now available of the economic foundations of early societies, and it may well be that he has succeeded.

This Palgrave Pivot reviews the history of the UK's Retail Prices Index (RPI) from its origins just after the Second World War to its controversial position today.

A book which covers the key period in the history of actuarial science from the mid-17th century to the early 19th century.

Definitive account of England''s transformation through industrial revolution, from one of the nation''s leading historians.

The end of the Cold War in 1989 gave rise to hopes for a new, more peaceful international system and for the redirection of military expenditures-over one-half of annual U.

The forgotten majority of German merchants in London between the end of the Hanseatic League and the end of the Napoleonic Wars became the largest mercantile Christian immigrant group in the eighteenth century.

Regulating Knowledge in an Entangled World uses case studies from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries to study knowledge transfer in early modern knowledge societies.

What determines why some countries succeed and others fall behind?

The uncovering of a great number of cartels in the industrialised world has left an unfortunate, yet significant, mark on global economic developments in recent years.

The industrialization of food preservation and processing has been a dramatic development across Europe during modern times.

This study, first published in 1983, is primarily concerned with what the British economists over the period 1860 to 1914 wrote on a range of economic and non-economic aspects of the British Empire, and the reasons for their conclusions.

This book traces the historical development of the network utilities sector in Australia (communications, rail, gas, electricity, water supply, and sewerage services).

In The Industrial Turn in World History, Peter N.

First published in 1967, this superb collection of essays on trade in the Middle Ages has been a major contribution to modern medieval studies.

This book focuses on how Enlightenment ideas shaped plantation management and slave work routines.

During the nineteenth century, railway lines spread rapidly across Europe, linking the continent in ways unimaginable to previous generations.

Most historical studies of child labour have tended to confirm a narrative which witnesses the gradual disappearance of child labour in Western Europe as politicians and social reformers introduced successive legislation, gradually removing children from the workplace.

Probate inventories provide an unparalleled and intimate glimpse into the lives of the inhabitants of early modern England.

This book provides a systematic account of the development of agriculture and agricultural civilization in ancient China.

Milton Friedman is widely regarded as one of the most influential economists of the twentieth century.

This book discusses the role historical events played in determining the pattern of growth of Indian manufacturing.

Volume 34 contains articles on the economic history of Europe, North America and South America and brings new analysis, and newly created datasets to address issues of interest.

This book examines the 1948 West German economic reforms that ushered in the fabled ''economic miracle''.

The Englishwoman's Review, which published from 1866 to 1910, participated in and recorded a great change in the range of possibilities open to women.

Rejects the perception of Engels as perpetuator of a ''tragic deception'' of Marx, and the body of opinion treating him as ''his master''s voice''.

Peter Burnham presents a detailed, archive-based account of the keys aspects of international monetary relations in the 1950s focusing in particular on Anglo-American policy surrounding the restoration of sterling convertibility.

The income share of the top one percent of the population in the United States has increased from a little over nine percent of national income in the 1970s to 22.

The pamphlets, newspaper articles and tracts in this collection provide source material for the study of the Anti-Corn Law campaigns of the 1830s and 1840s and their role in the formation of popular economics in Britain.

This book explores students' consumer practices and material desires in nineteenth-century Oxford.

Michael Dintenfass provides a challenging account of Britain's economic performance since 1870.

Biographies of Frederick the Great generally emphasise the military and diplomatic events of his reign and neglect to discuss fully the significance of his economic policy.

This critical exposition of Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments, first published in 1971, gives an appreciation of Smith's conception of scientific method as applied to the study of social phenomena.

An inclusive economic history of America describing two centuries of American racial conflicts since the Constitution was written.

This is a multidisciplinary analysis of the relationship between the motor car and popular culture in the 20th century, which brings together original essays by academics in the UK, North America and Australia.

Is the 'natural resource curse' destiny?

This book analyzes the impact of the digital economy on customer satisfaction, shopping experience, resistance to change, script theory, and loyalty.

In the spring of 1992, Deng Xiaoping made a historical tour of south China, popularly known as the Nanxun ("e;southern tour"e;).

Neoclassical economics as-sumes that people are highly rational and can reason their way through even the most complex economic problems.

This book explores the concept of 'the Levant' as a component of the regional and international system during the age of imperialism.

The narrative of China's history in this book is 'theme-led' rather than conventionally chronicle-based.

The book offers a concise account of modern Japanese economic history and the essence of postwar macroeconomic issues and policy.

While ethics has been an integral part of economics since the days of Adam Smith (if not Aristotle), many modern economists dismiss ethical concerns in favor of increasing formal mathematical and computational methods.

Zanasi argues that notions of market and consumption linked to economic liberalism emerged earlier in China than in Europe.