Economic history

Technical changes in the first half of the nineteenth century led to unprecedented economic growth and capital formation throughout Western Europe; and yet Ireland hardly participated in this process at all.

This book seeks to understand why almost all commentators on the Irish economy were unprepared for the scale of the recent economic crisis.

At what stage of their careers do great artists produce their most important work?

This volume of the Collected Writings of Modern Western Scholars on Japan brings together the work of Ben-Ami Shillony on modern history, crisis and culture, Japan and the Jews.

India in the 1950s and 1960s, with its diversity of economic structures and different levels of regional development, offers a unique opportunity to explore a wide range of agrarian evolution within a multiform society.

From chatelaines to whale blubber, ice making machines to stained glass, this six-volume collection will be of interest to the scholar, student or general reader alike - anyone who has an urge to learn more about Victorian things.

This book explores the formation and evolution of Scandinavian central banks.

This book is the first systematic scholarly study on the business history of Turkey from the nineteenth century until the present.

One Way Ticket (1983) examines the 'hidden armies' of migrant women workers who have since the 1950s fulfilled a demand for low-skilled, low paid and insecure work in both the formal and informal economies of Western Europe.

This book and its companion volume offer a better understanding of the lessons that Indian policymakers can learn from China's economic experience over the last 40 years.

A revised and updated edition of the leading overview of economic regimes and economic performance in twentieth-century Europe.

Published in the year 1975, Study of Economic History is a valuable contribution to the field of Military and Strategic Studies.

The Economic Development of the USSR (1982) examines the economic advances the Soviet Union made as the first major economy to adopt full-scale socialist planning.

Merchant networks generated trade and the exchange of goods between the cities of early modern Europe.

First published in 1927, Economics and Human Behaviour is a defence of orthodox economics against the attacks of social psychology.

Most economic theory is based on the assumption that economies grow in a linear fashion.

From the workings of financial markets to our response to the ecological crisis, economic theory shapes the world.

The Global Lives of Things considers the ways in which 'things', ranging from commodities to works of art and precious materials, participated in the shaping of global connections in the period 1400-1800.

This book reconsiders the nature and formation of Asia's economic order during the 1930s and 1950s in light of the new historiographical developments in Britain and Japan.

The Indian economy has undergone dramatic changes over recent decades encompassing episodes of rapid growth and stagnation.

A definitive reframing of the economic, institutional, and intellectual history of the managerial eraThe twentieth century was the managerial century in the United States.

The Routledge Handbook of Heterodox Economics presents a comprehensive overview of the latest work on economic theory and policy from a 'pluralistic' heterodox perspective.

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.

Winner of the 1990 Best Book Award from the New England Council on Latin American StudiesThis study of Bolivia uses Cochabamba as a laboratory to examine the long-term transformation of native Andean society into a vibrant Quechua-Spanish-mestizo region of haciendas and smallholdings, towns and villages, peasant markets and migratory networks caught in the web of Spanish imperial politics and economics.

The nineteenth century was a time of rapid change in forms of organization of economic activity.

FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2022 THE TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2021 'A complex story, which Tooze tells with clarity and verve.

This work, first published in 1977, is a reissue of a trailblazing work; the first textbook of economic history to deal comprehensively with the economic development of the whole continent in this period and to do so from a continental rather than a British perspective.

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This volume focuses on the life of Joseph Rowntree of York, a renowned Quaker businessman from 1836 to 1925.

This book is the culmination of and a collection of distinguished scholar Lawrence Officer's principal research over 50 years of scholarly activity.

Drawing on an array of archival evidence from court records to the poems of Chaucer, this work explores how medieval thinkers understood economic activity, how their ideas were transmitted and the extent to which they were accepted.

The alliance made between Cromwell and John IV in 1654, cemented by the Articles of Marriage between Charles II and Catherine of Braganza in 1661 lasted for 156 years.

This work traces the development of residential natural gas markets in the United States from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present.

This paper investigates the impact of political interventions made by Beijing and Taipei in recent years on the development of cross-Straits economic relations.

Challenges the myth that the American national state was weak in the early days of the republic and provides a new narrative of American expansionism.

How did banking in early nineteenth-century Massachusetts evolve?

How does one package and sell confidence in the stability of a nation riven by civil strife?

This is the first modern study of the Fellowship of Merchant Adventurers - England's most important trading company of the sixteenth century - in its final century of existence as a privileged organisation.

Post-Keynesian and heterodox economics challenge the mainstream economics theories that dominate the teaching at universities and government economic policies.

This volume presents a systematic and fresh interpretation of a mid-second-century AD papyrus - the so-called Muziris papyrus - which preserves on its two sides fragments of a unique pair of documents: on one side, a loan agreement to finance a commercial enterprise to South India and, on the other, an assessment of the fiscal value of a South Indian cargo imported on a ship named the Hermapollon.

Featuring essays on topics ranging from the pandemic to antideflationist paranoia and the crisis of classical liberalism, this volume explores the various ways in which socialism statism is the 'deadliest virus' which constantly endangers the spontaneous process of social cooperation.

The decision to initiate a High Tide of agricultural co-operativisation in 1955 in China, is documented in this text.

As we tour the 400 year history of capitalism through its various phases of development, financial system instability is always there lurking in the shadows.

This book deals with the period when iron became the dominant 'high-technology' material, increasingly taking over from timber and masonry.

This innovative new book is overtly and explicitly about female agency in eighteenth-century European towns.

The 38 selections in the volume include complete texts of all of Veblen's major articles and book reviews from 1882 to 1914, plus key chapters from his books The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899), The Theory of Business Enterprise (1904) and The Instinct of Workmanship (1914).

From Angkor Wat to Agent Orange, Southeast Asia An Environmental History tells the story of some of the most dramatic effects humans have had on the natural and developed environment anywhere in the world and examines the ways in which environmental factors have helped shape the culture, politics, and societies of the region.

This book provides insight into the remarkable life and work of the Italian economist Antonio de Viti de Marco (1858-1943).