Economic history

The publication of Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America has kindled interest across disciplines to appraise the exceptional nature of U.

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 second volume of Gyllenbok's encyclopaedia of historical metrology comprises the first part of the compendium of measurement systems and currencies of all sovereign states of the modern World (A-I).

Globalisation is associated with capitalist multinationals dedicated to the enrichment of wealthy, corporate shareholders.

Across seventeen volumes to date, the Collected Works of F.

The Socialist Industrial State (1976) examines the state-socialist system, taking as the central example the Soviet Union - where the goals and values of Marxism-Leninism and the particular institutions, the form of economy and polity, were first adopted and developed.

The Great Irish Famine remains one of the most lethal famines in modern world history and a watershed moment in the development of modern Ireland - socially, politically, demographically and culturally.

Between the ninth and the fifteenth centuries, Central Asia was a major political, economic and cultural hub on the Eurasian continent.

Japanese economists began publishing scientific papers in renowned journals including Econometrica in the 1950s and had made their significant contributions to the sophistication of general equilibrium analysis by intensive use of a variety of mathematical instruments.

Profound Changes took place in British Agriculture between 1875 and 1914.

Using a wide array of published and unpublished sources, McLean examines in detail nine group emigrations that left western Inverness between 1785 and 1802 for Glengarry County in Upper Canada (now Ontario).

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The unlikely beginnings of the East India Company-from Tudor origins and rivalry with the superior Dutch-to laying the groundwork for future British expansion The East India Company was the largest commercial enterprise in British history, yet its roots in Tudor England are often overlooked.

Wrecking Activities at Power Stations in the Soviet Union (1933) is a valuable historical document that presents a verbatim report of the trials of various Soviet and British engineers and workers accused of acts of sabotage against the Soviet energy infrastructure.

This book engages in the long-standing debate on the relationship between capitalism and colonialism.

Since the start of reform two decades ago, China's economy has experienced spectacular growth.

Economic Integration in East and West (1976) explores the logic of economic integration to form free trade areas and common markets, and applies the findings to the European Economic Community and Comecon, and to third countries and the world economic order in general.

English society until the mid-eighteenth century was a predominantly rural and a peasant society.

This book interprets the historical evolution of how and why the international monetary system has been transformed.

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Mexico is the sixteenth largest economy in the world and Latin America's biggest exporter and importer.

This title, first published in 1920, is an excellent introduction to the fundamentals of economics, including explanations of production, distribution, and capital.

In the half millennium of their existence, guilds in the Low Countries played a highly significant role in shaping the societies of which they were a part.

First published in 1969, John Fielden was a businessman, Radical, humanitarian and Parliamentarian, often bored haughty politicians and shocked respectable middle-class opinion.

The Great Irish Famine remains one of the most lethal famines in modern world history and a watershed moment in the development of modern Ireland - socially, politically, demographically and culturally.

This ground-breaking book provides the first English-language survey of economic thought in modern Japan.

An examination of the varied paths of the American inter-city bus industry from its origins in the second decade of the 20th century to deregulation in 1982.

The complex and often turbulent history of Russia over the course of 2,000 years is brought to life in a series of 176 maps by one of the most prolific and successful historian authors today.

This book updates African maritime economic history to analyse the influence of seaports and seaborne trade, processes of urbanization and development, and the impact of globalization on port evolution within the different regions of Africa.

This book examines different dimensions of farmer agitations in Punjab, India.

The globally spreading privatisation wave that occurred in the 1990s deeply changed the structure of economic institutions worldwide.

We remember Thomas Edison as the inventor of the incandescent light bulb, but he deserves credit for something much larger, an even more singular invention that profoundly changed the way the world works: the modern electric utility industry.

Adam Smith wrote in a Scotland where Calvinism, Continental natural law theory, Stoic philosophy, and the Newtonian tradition of scientific natural theology were key to the intellectual lives of his contemporaries.

Looking at the years 1870-2016, this book analyses the reasons behind Colombia's chronically slow economic growth.

Die Frage nach der Überlebensfähigkeit von Unternehmen in schwierigen Zeiten ist spätestens seit der Finanzkrise in den Jahren nach 2007 hochaktuell, doch trat dieses Problem auch in der Geschichte auf, wenn Zeiten bedeutender wirtschaftlicher, politischer und gesellschaftlicher Umbrüche neuartige Herausforderungen an Unternehmen stellten.

Daniel Pope follows the collapse of a small public agency''s attempts to build five nuclear power plants in the 1970s.

Rejecting the idea of an equilibrium business cycle, this book, originally published in 1927, studies those industrial fluctuations which extend over short spans of years: cyclical fluctuations.

After 1688, Britain underwent a revolution in public finance, and the cost of borrowing declined sharply.

This book constitutes an up-to-date treatment of Russia's economic development and economic policies since 2000, when Vladimir Putin became the President of Russia.

This highly original work offers an intellectual history of four central theories underlying the market economic system, focusing on their conception, evolution, and applications.

In a business world predominantly oriented toward the future, it has paradoxically become ever more common that companies turn towards their pasts.

A comparison between the tsarist economy on the eve of the revolution and the Soviet economy in the mid-1920s.

The Mexican economy is a contemporary political flashpoint, and not just in Mexico, but in the United States, as well.

This volume contains all the writings that are grouped around Bentham's boldest idea - the proposal of a 'circulating currency': a government sponsored currency which would be both a kind of savings certificate and a kind of paper money.

The massive inflation and oil crisis of the 1970s damaged Jimmy Carter's presidency.

The Countryside: Planning and Change (1981) examines the relationship between policies and their actual effects on the countryside, throwing light on the problems inherent in a fragmented approach to policy-making.