Economic history

Medium-Sized Cities in the Age of Globalisation provides a brand-new perspective on academic discussions of globalisation through exploring urban development outside of select global cities including Paris, Tokyo, and London, and instead focuses on medium-sized cities in the context of a globalising world.

This book offers a comprehensive assessment of Friedrich List's economic and political thinking.

The history of the economic contacts between Asia and Europe dates back to at least the early years of the Common Era.

This book offers a comprehensive assessment of Friedrich List's economic and political thinking.

Dieses Buch verknüpft am Beispiel von acht Fallbeispielen aus Deutschland und der Schweiz erstmals die Krisenfestigkeit von Unternehmerfamilien historisch fundiert mit Befunden aus der Entwicklungspsychologie, Managementforschung und Ressourcenökonomik.

Banks are frequently considered usurers.

This book explores the development of the gas industry within Latin Europe (France, Italy, Portugal, and Spain).

This book analyzes the economic impact of the early development of railways in different Asian countries, linking the inlands with port cities and with a global network of connections.

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

This book depicts the Early Modern book markets in Europe and colonial Latin America.

This book asks anew whether there really was European integration before 1914.

This book examines the development of social support systems in the Modern age in the rural areas of the city-states of Northern Italy.

A sweeping history of the American invention of modern money.

A sobering excavation of how deeply nineteenth-century American banks were entwined with the institution of slavery.

An intimate account of the eighteenth-century Bank of England that shows how a private institution became "e;a great engine of state"e;The eighteenth-century Bank of England was an institution that operated for the benefit of its shareholders-and yet came to be considered, as Adam Smith described it, "e;a great engine of state.

A sweeping intellectual history of the welfare state's policy-in-waiting.

Bhotia is an exclusive ethnic community, different both from the Hindus and the Tibetans who inhabit the eastern and central Himalaya regions.

Understanding Economic Transitions explains the genesis, operation, and transformation of the centrally-planned socialist economy, which figured prominently in the lives of billions of people in twentieth-century Europe and Asia.

An illuminating history of America's original credit market.

Wongsurawat looks at the history of Thailand since the mid-nineteenth century and uses events to elucidate basic economic models and concepts.

Wongsurawat looks at the history of Thailand since the mid-nineteenth century and uses events to elucidate basic economic models and concepts.

The book examines how the outgrowth of the financial industry has contributed to the recent tendencies towards inequality and stagnation.

An essential origin story of modern society's most influential economic doctrine.

Exploring the movement of peoples, perfumes, and spices across vast distances in this period of medieval history across Asia, the Middle East, and Europe, this book examines the role of Arab merchants in trade between and among the Caliphal and Carolingian elites.

Seizing opportunities, inventing new products, transforming markets--entrepreneurs are an important and well-documented part of the private sector landscape.

First published in 1975, South Wales Miners starts with the War of Empires, when nearly 50,000 Welsh miners, almost one-fifth of the total manpower of their coalfield, responded to the call and voluntarily enlisted in the British armed forces.

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.

The interrelationship among development, environment, and human needs is one of the key issues being faced by the world today.

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.

** WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2024 **** LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024 **This is the authoritative history of South Asia in the 20th century.

This book reassesses the actual effects of the Bubble Act, still popularly associated with the bursting of the South Sea Bubble.

This book reassesses the actual effects of the Bubble Act, still popularly associated with the bursting of the South Sea Bubble.

This book argues that the prevailing view of colonialism - that it was a negative and destructive phenomenon - needs to be rethought.

As the first volume of a two-volume set on Chinese economic history, this book investigates Chinese economic development between 1912 and 1949 and unravels the overall level during that time.

This book investigates the mixed economy of welfare that assisted socially marginalised people in interwar Europe, namely the state, local authorities, and a combination of voluntary and informal actors.

The second edition of this successful and pioneering textbook takes a thematic approach to the subject, resulting in a comprehensive understanding of the historic development of economic issues in the United States.

As the second volume of a two-volume set on the Chinese economic history, this book investigates Chinese economic development since 1949, uncovering the momentum, unique models, and general laws of economy in China.

Covering figures, events, policies, and organizations, this comprehensive reference tool enhances readers' appreciation of the role economics has played in U.

"Llegaron entonces los movimientos revolucionarios independentistas y con ello la conformación de la República de Colombia durante el siglo XIX, una centuria turbulenta, precaria y experimental.

"e;A fascinating, exciting story.

This book challenges the binary distinction of developed and underdeveloped in the categorization of any country while proposing to erase this binary with a yardstick of parity.

The customary treatment of Mediterranean trade from the 11th to the mid-15th century emphasizes the predominance of western merchants and the commercial exchange of spices and eastern raw materials for western woollens and other finished products.

As the first volume of a two-volume set on Chinese economic history, this book investigates Chinese economic development between 1912 and 1949 and unravels the overall level during that time.

This book explores the functioning of coal markets and their influence on ports and maritime economics since the second half of the nineteenth century.

This book explores the functioning of coal markets and their influence on ports and maritime economics since the second half of the nineteenth century.

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

Getting divorced and remarried are now common practices in European societies, even if the rules differ from one country to the next.

This book challenges the binary distinction of developed and underdeveloped in the categorization of any country while proposing to erase this binary with a yardstick of parity.