Economic history

First published in 1943, this work contains five interconnected essays presenting the author's renowned additions to the business cycle theory.

First Published in 1966.

The elemental power of food politics has not been fully appraised.

Historians are used to studying the origins of war.

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.

South Wales was one of the main centres of the Industrial Revolution in Britain but the story of the rapid growth of an industrial society there has not yet been fully told, since much of the work done has consisted of articles rather than books.

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A historical look at the early evolution of global trade and how this led to the creation and dominance of the European business corporationBefore the seventeenth century, trade across Eurasia was mostly conducted in short segments along the Silk Route and Indian Ocean.

An up to date short study which examines the key debates on British economic performance since 1914.

A revolutionary account of the ancient Greek economyThis comprehensive introduction to the ancient Greek economy revolutionizes our understanding of the subject and its possibilities.

An unprecedented global account of the emergence of modern economic growth and its spread across the world from 1700 to 1870.

Why do countries differ so greatly in their patterns of political cleavage and coalition?

Ulbe Bosma details how the British and Dutch introduced the sugar plantation model in Asia and refashioned it over time.

First published in 1985, Theories of Modern Capitalism provides a succinct study of Marxist and non-Marxist theories of Capitalism, its recent development, and the prospects of a transition to socialism.

This book offers a comparative and polycentric approach to the formation of global trade networks and goods that circumnavigated China, America, and Europe in the so-called process of "e;early globalization"e; during the early modern period.

Dass die bislang geltende Weltordnung an ihr Ende gekommen ist, zeigt sich nicht nur an zunehmenden Kriegen und Eskalationen, sondern auch an sich verschärfenden Handelskonflikten – am dramatischsten und weitreichendsten zwischen China und den USA, jüngst aber vor allem mit Russland, der Zuspitzung des globalen «Chipkriegs» oder Donald Trumps radikaler Zollpolitik unter anderem gegen die EU.

Ever since the time of his early interpreters, beginning with David Hume, Adam Smith's theory of value has been the subject of confusion and misunderstanding-including a controversy which still rages over whether Smith held a labour theory of value, and, if so, whether he held to it throughout Wealth of Nations, or if it was confined to the "e;Early and Rude State"e;?

An accessible introduction to global economic development since 1500, complete with case studies of key themes, individuals, processes and events.

Economists and Societies is the first book to systematically compare the profession of economics in the United States, Britain, and France, and to explain why economics, far from being a uniform science, differs in important ways among these three countries.

First Published in 1977.

Reissuing the epic undertaking of Dr S.

This book provides an overview of monetary history from the perspectives of the financial intermediaries who shaped it.

The book examines female entrepreneurship in the nineteenth century.

Black business activity has been sustained in America for almost four centuries.

As the world's political and economic leaders struggle with the aftermath of the Financial Debacle of 2008, this book asks the question: have financial crises presented opportunities to rebuild the financial system?

The overall historical perspective sheds new light on the events of the 1980s and analyses the efforts to rehabilitate the industry in the 1990s.

Das älteste Linzer Bürgerbuch verzeichnet nicht nur 844 Aufnahmen von Personen in die Stadtgemeinschaft im Zeitraum zwischen 1658 und 1707, es ist gleichzeitig ein Spiegel der Daseinsumstände und Entscheidungen der Menschen.

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

The last available census estimated around 10 per cent of total urban working women in India are concentrated in the low paid domestic services such as cleaning, cooking, and taking care of the children and the elderly.

This book traces the history of international news agencies and associations around the world from 1848 to 1947.

This expanded and enlarged third edition of Theodore Pelagidis and Michael Mitsopoulos' popular Who's to Blame for Greece?

Following the Brexit vote, this book offers a timely historical assessment of the different ways that Britain's economic future has been imagined and how British ideas have influenced global debates about market relationships over the past two centuries.

The survival of Edmund Harrold's diary for the years 1712-1715 is a remarkable piece of luck for historians.

This book takes a comparative approach to economic history to offer ways to increase our understanding of the divergence between South America and Scandinavia.

Secrets played a central role in transformations in medical and scientific knowledge in early modern Europe.

Korea, one of the original 'Tiger Economies', experiences a traumatic and largely unanticipated economic crisis in 1997-98 from which the country is still recovering.

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

Originally published in 1954.

This book examines the cultural relations between the Spanish and Austrian Habsburg monarchies in the seventeenth century and explores the central role of transnational aristocratic networks in cultural transfer processes between Spain and Central Europe.

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.

The most comprehensive work on China's education reform available--from one of the nation's most influential figures in educationIn Advice on the Education of China, Zhu Yongxin explores points of view from both educational researchers and government officials and policymakers, thus providing a broader range of topics any other book available to Western audiences.

The activities of central banks are relevant to everyone in society.

Enmeshed in the exploitative world of racial slavery, overseers were central figures in the management of early American plantation enterprises.

This book, the second of two volumes, explores India's economic development from the Gupta Empire (400AD) through to modern day India.

This is an analysis of the monetary growth in France between 1897-1984.

Here is a bold history of economics - the dramatic story of how the great economic thinkers built today's rigorous social science.

In the first half of the seventeenth century the Dutch Republic emerged as one of Europe's leading maritime powers.

Geology is the most historical of all sciences.

Although Portugal was one of the first European states with stable borders, the process of the making of a Portuguese fiscal state still remains to be studied in detail.