Economic history

Globalization is a phenomenon which has attracted much attention in the past, but there are still many questions that remain unanswered.

First Published in 1968.

Church and Manor (1913) examines the unit of English territorial organisation known as the manor.

Local Government in West Africa (1964) examines colonial and independent local government in Nigeria, Ghana and Sierra Leone.

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

This book provides detailed systematic micro-level analysis of the historical development of the Chinese banking industry, focusing in particular on the development of the Bank of China (BOC) in the period 1905 to 1949.

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.

Prosper from the profitable opportunities of the next financial market super boom In 1976, Yale Hirsch predicted a fifteen-year super boom a move in the stock market of 500% or more.

This book provides a fully revised and up-to-date analysis of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU).

Historians, since the 1960s, argue that the French economy performed as well as did any economy in Europe during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries thanks to the opportunities for profit available on the market, especially the large consumer market in Paris.

More than 40 years after its publication, the 1963 Beeching Report on British railways remains controversial for recommending the closure of a third of Britain's railways.

Examines debt insecurity in eighteenth-century Britain, a period of famously rapid economic growth when many people nevertheless experienced financial failure.

War Berlin als Reichshauptstadt 1871-1945 finanziell besser gestellt als heute?

In the immediate aftermath of the global financial crisis of 2008, governments around the developed world coordinated policy moves to stimulate economic activity and avert a depression.

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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.

Domesday: Book of Judgement provides a unique study of the extraordinary eleventh-century survey, the Domesday Book.

Emerging relatively unscathed from the banking crisis of 2008, China has been viewed as a model of both rampant success and fiscal stability.

The Cultural Work of Corporations argues that corporate culture - the values, customs, and conventions of a business organization - has altered how workers conduct themselves both inside and outside the workplace.

This collection of studies (the eighth by David Jacoby) covers a period witnessing intensive geographic mobility across the Mediterranean, illustrated by a growing number of Westerners engaging in pilgrimage, crusade, trading and shipping, or else driven by sheer curiosity.

At the heart of this study on cross-cultural trade lies a concrete case-study of a network of diamond merchants operating in the early eighteenth century.

This book explores the vital role of merchants within early modern China.

Following a study on the world flows of American products during early globalization, here the authors examine the reverse process.

This book examines the origins of the IS-LM model, one of the most significant innovations in the history of economic thought.

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.

How only violence and catastrophes have consistently reduced inequality throughout world historyAre mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality?

Money is usually understood as a valuable object, the value of which is attributed to it by its users and which other users recognize.

The models in mainstream game theory generally assume that actors act according to a single, consistent utility function.

How to sustain an international system of cooperation in the midst of geopolitical struggleCan the international economic and legal system survive today's fractured geopolitics?

As a food, milk has been revered and ignored, respected and feared.

How medieval Dutch society laid the foundations for modern capitalismThe Netherlands was one of the pioneers of capitalism in the Middle Ages, giving rise to the spectacular Dutch Golden Age while ushering in an era of unprecedented, long-term economic growth.

The euro's life, while only slightly more than a decade long, has been riddled by a series of challenges and crises.

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.

This important new book, widely praised in hardcover (Yale UP) redefines the economic history of early modern Britain for a new generation of readers.

This book is a sequal to Britain's Economic Prospects, the report issued in 1968 by the Brookings Institution and universally accepted as the most thorough and comprehensive study of the British Economy to have ever appeared.

Soviet foreign policy in the Stalin era is commonly assumed to have been a direct product of either Marxist ideology or the leader's whims.

Adam Smith's contribution to economics is well recognised, but scholars have recently been exploring anew the multidisciplinary nature of his works.

During Reconstruction, an alliance of southern planters and northern capitalists rebuilt the southern railway system using remnants of the Confederate railroads that had been built and destroyed during the Civil War.

Economics for Alfred Marshall, the last of the classical economists, is concerned with activities in the ordinary business of life.

Based on unparalleled access to those involved, and told with compelling pace and drama, The Bank that Lived a Little describes three decades of boardroom intrigue at one of Britain's biggest financial institutions.

The book is a study of the emergence of market economy with modern economic institutions in the early civilizations of Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt from the third and early second millennium B.

There is perhaps no area of British life where attitudes are more strongly influenced by shared traditions and past experiences than the trade union movement; the memory of the working-class movements is a long one.

This comprehensive study traces the history of over forty royal free towns from the sixteenth-century to 1848 in the territories of what today are Hungary, Slovakia, and Romania.

This book is intended for policy-makers, academics and students of development studies, area studies, political economy, geography and political science.