Economic history

This book traces the development of the standard property rights over five kinds of natural resource - inland rivers, ocean fisheries, petroleum resources, gold and base metals and forest resources - from classical times through to the 19th century.

The urgent demand for housing after World War I fueled a boom in residential construction that led to historic peaks in home ownership.

The 1960s were a turning point for postwar economic policy.

In 1943, Lebanon gained its formal political independence from France; only after two more decades did the country finally establish a national central bank.

In this collection of essays David A Dyker explores some of the most difficult and fascinating aspects of the process of transition from autocratic "e;real socialism"e; to a capitalism that is sometimes democratic, sometimes authoritarian.

Unilever is one of the world's largest suppliers of fast moving consumer goods in foods, home and personal care.

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.

The first articles in this volume focus on sources for the history of Baltic commerce and the evaluation of their data on prices.

What modern economics can tell us about ancient RomeThe quality of life for ordinary Roman citizens at the height of the Roman Empire probably was better than that of any other large group of people living before the Industrial Revolution.

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.

Tale of Four Indian Cities presents a vivid picture of how the British political regime reorganized the structure of the Indian economy to suit its own objectives.

This book demonstrates how the political economy of mercantilism was not simply a Western invention by various cities and kingdoms during the Renaissance, but was the natural by-product of perpetually limited growth rates and rulers' relentless pursuits of bullion.

An accessible account of the role of the modern university in the creation of economics During the late nineteenth century concerns about international commercial rivalry were often expressed in terms of national provision for training and education, and the role of universities in such provision.

'This book tackles some of the most important educational questions of the day.

The Political Economy of International Commodity Cartels examines how international commodity cartels in the 1930s were impacted not only by commercial rivalry, but also by international trade political and diplomatic concerns.

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This book analyses the changing nature of the British economy and the consequences of Brexit upon its place within the European economic space.

First published in 1921, this book is intended to provide a comprehensive overview of economics to beginners, with only the more intricate and controversial subjects - such as economic rent - being omitted for the sake of clarity.

First published in 1966.

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 title was first published in 2000.

This volume explores the Industrial Age (1860-1914), bringing together published and archival primary sources with introductory essays that contextualize a period of extraordinary social, cultural, and economic transformation.

A thought-provoking study of how knowledge of provenance was not transferred with enslaved people and goods from the Portuguese trading empire to Renaissance ItalyIn the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Renaissance Italy received a bounty of goods from Portuguese trading voyagesfruits of empire that included luxury goods, exotic animals and even enslaved people.

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While the outcomes of the tumultuous uprisings that continue to transfix the Arab world remain uncertain, the root causes of rebellion persist.

Franziska Neumanns Studie untersucht Formalisierungsprozesse und die Ausbildung formaler Organisationen in frühneuzeitlichen Verwaltungen.

Are there feminist, economic utopian visions amongst feminist economists?

A major study of local identities across early modern and modern British history.

A reconstruction of the creation of game theory in the twentieth century by John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern.

This book presents a comprehensive study of the most famous and spectacular instance of inflation in modern industrial society--that in Germany during and following World War I.

Translated from the original Russian, this book analyzes the economic development of leading European empires and the United States of America.

Now in its second edition, The Atlantic Slave Trade in World History has been updated to include recent scholarship, and an analysis of how debates have changed in light of recent key events such as the Black Lives Matter movement.

This book examines the history of empire and its influence on capitalism.

While dating from post-Classical economists such as Thorstein Veblen and Joseph Schumpeter, the inception of the modern field of evolutionary economics is usually dated to the early 1980s.

El primer objetivo de este libro es trazar la trayectoria que ha seguido la tradición neoclásica para construir sus teorías económicas.

This book, the first of two volumes, examines ancient civilizations to explore the ethical foundations of modern economic systems.

First Published in 2005.

Economists have not always been on friendly terms with scientists from other fields.

Peter Mathias's subject is the creation in late eighteenth-century England of the industrial system - and thereby the present world.

Indonesia is now the fourth largest country in the world, but many aspects of its economic history remain poorly understood.

Ever since Adolph Berle and Gardiner Means wrote their classic 1932 analysis of the American corporation, The Modern Corporation and Private Property, social scientists have been intrigued and challenged by the evolution of this crucial part of American social and economic life.

An in-depth examination of the economic and social transition from slavery to capitalism during ReconstructionAt the center of the upheavals brought by emancipation in the American South was the economic and social transition from slavery to modern capitalism.

A colorful introduction to one of the most influential businessmen in history (The New York Times Book Review), Jacob Fuggerthe Renaissance banker who wrote the playbook for everyone who keeps score with money (Bryan Burrough, author of Days of Rage).

This volume explores the relationship between cities and railways over three centuries.

Dundee had an interesting role to play in the jute trade, but the main player in the story of jute was Calcutta.

Challenges the dominant narrative of an agricultural ''enlightenment'', showing how farming books appropriated traditional knowledge in pre-industrial Britain.

This collection of 13 essays deals with a range of topics concerning Portuguese, Dutch and Chinese merchants, commodities and commerce in maritime Asia in the early modern period from c.

The theory of costs is a cornerstone of economic thinking, and figures crucially in the study of human action and society.