Economic history

Money is more than just a medium of financial exchange: across time and place, it has performed all sorts of cultural, political, and social functions.

A concise and clear introduction to the new institutional economics that summarizes current knowledge whilst addressing its gaps and weaknesses.

World exhibitions have been widely acknowledged as important sources for understanding the development of the modern consumer and urbanized society, yet whilst the function and purpose of architecture at these major events has been well-studied, the place of food has received very little attention.

This is Volume 1 of the Papers of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Alexander Milner 1806-1896.

Railway expansion was the great industrial project of the late 19th century, and the Great Powers built railways at speed and reaped great commercial benefits.

Originally published between 1920-70,The History of Civilization was a landmark in early twentieth century publishing.

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Electronics is an ever-changing field with an entrepreneurial spirit and a rich history, populated by some of the world's most famous companies and personalities.

In his study of Golden Age and hard-boiled detective fiction from 1890 to 1950, Yan Zi-Ling argues that these two subgenres can be distinguished not only by theme and style, but by the way they structure knowledge, value, and productive labour.

Commercial Relations between India and England (1924) is a comprehensive study of the beginnings of the English relations with India and the East.

An overview of socialist planning that explains the underlying theory and its limitations, also placing developments in their historical perspective.

Winner of the 2025 Ellen Meiksins Wood Prize In the vein of The Shock Doctrine and Evil Geniuses, this timely and ';galvanizing' (Naomi Klein, New York Times bestselling author) manifesto illustrates how corporate and political power brokers have used capitalism to advance their own interests at the expense of the rest of usand how we can take back our economy.

This title was first published in 2001.

The Later Tudors is an authoritative and comprehensive study of England between the accession of Edward VI and the death of Elizabeth I--a turbulent period of conflict amongst European nations, and between warring Catholics and Protestants.

First published in 1974, Authors, Publishers and Politicians describes the efforts to secure an Anglo-American copyright agreement.

The Roman conquest of Italy in the Republican period (from c.

This ground-breaking work overturns accepted historical dogma on how World War II strategy was planned and implemented.

Now in its fifth edition, this book explores the ways in which the industrial revolution reshaped world history, covering the international factors that helped launch the industrial revolution, its global spread and its impact from the end of the eighteenth century to the present day.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Glashütte 1878, Beginn der Deutschen Rechenmaschinenfertigung" verfügbar.

The book looks at the National incomes of 1924 to 1931 was originally published in 1932 before the publication of the Age and Occupation 1931 Census but after the 1930 Census of Production.

In this study, first published in 2004, Nobel laureate Robert Fogel examines health, nutrition and technology over the last three centuries.

This new volume explores two alternative economic theories - the classical theory and the marginalist or neoclassical theory- through a discussion between two eminent economists, Pierangelo Garegnani and Paul Samuelson.

This book pleads for a new orientation of government economic policy, as well as central bank policy, rejecting the traditional government stabilization policy that leads to a dead-end of economic instability and social inequality in the long run.

This book brings together leading scholars of the history of economic thought to demonstrate the vitality and richness of a discipline that welcomes both practitioners of intellectual, contextual history, as well as specialists in the historical explanation of the analytical and theoretical dimension of economic science.

This volume examines the Meiji Restoration through a global history lens to re-interpret the formation of a globally-cast, Japanese nation-state.

Development has remained elusive in Africa.

By the end of the 19th century, there were already some countries in southern Europe whose economies benefitted from the arrival of tourists.

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.

Drawing extensively from agency records, newspaper accounts, sociological studies and court documents, Hough explores the experiences of rural white unwed mothers in Maine and Tennessee.

This book presents a detailed account of the co-operative practice of agriculture in medieval England, shedding much light on how medieval villagers governed their own affairs.

Australia, Wilkommen (1990) documents the rich and varying contribution made by Germans in Australia.

Traditionally economic anthropology has been studied by sociologists, anthropologists, and philosophers seeking to highlight the social foundations of economic action.

In this important new historical study, Mria Kovcs examines the struggle between liberal and anti-Semitic policies among professional groups--doctors, lawyers, engineers--in Hungary.

From the acclaimed author of Britain's War Machine and The Shock of the Old, a bold reassessment of Britain's twentieth century.

In 1850 the Industrial Revolution came to an end.

The fertility of Adam Smith's work stems from a paradoxical structure where the pursuit of economic self-interest and wealth accumulation serve wider social objectives.

In this major scholarly study of the life of Joseph A.

Some of the greatest thinkers in the history of economic thought have been instrumental in advancing the study of development economics.

Perrotta explores and charts the changing place of consumption as a source of investment in production and growth within economic writings from ancient history to the present.

This book is one of the first historical revisions of the Latin American debt crisis of 1982, exploring recently disclosed archival sources for a number of creditor and debtor institutions.

When Chinese women bound their daughters' feet, many consequences ensued, some beyond the imagination of the binders and the bound.

Microeconomic Principles and Problems offers a comprehensive introduction to all major perspectives in modern microeconomics, including mainstream and heterodox approaches.

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

This groundbreaking book examines the history of Spain, England, the United States, and Mexico to explain why development takes centuries.

Although central banking is today often presented as having emerged in the nineteenth or even twentieth century, it has a long and colourful history before 1800, from which important lessons for today's debates can be drawn.

First published in 2000, Trade, Travel, and Exploration: An Encyclopedia covers the people, places, technologies, and intellectual concepts that contributed to trade, travel and exploration during the Middle Ages, from the years C.

This book examines the Westernization Movement in modern Chinese History, in the latter 19th century and the economic impact on manufacturing and enterprise evolution.

English dress in the second half of the sixteenth century has been studied in depth, yet remarkably little has been written on the earlier years, or indeed on male clothing for the whole century.