Economic history

This book offers an original analysis of the problem of the authority of the state in democracies.

The purpose of this collection is to bring together representative examples of the most recent work that is taking an understanding of children and childhood in new directions.

Focusing on the ports, dockyards and garrison towns of Kent, this study examines the social and economic factors that could cause a woman to turn to prostitution, and how such women were policed.

Leading academics and senior policy makers provide an international perspective on the changing role of the US Federal Reserve System.

This title was first published in 2000: This work provides a new insight into china's township and village enterprises (TVEs).

This book puts the legacies of slavery squarely back into modern British history.

China has experienced tremendous developmental success since its reform and opening-up policy in 1978.

First published in 1998, this author illustrates clearly how, on the threshold of the new millennium, the world is entering a post-economic era.

As one of the first academic monographs on Keith Haring, this book uses the Pop Shop, a previously overlooked enterprise, and artist merchandising as tools to reconsider the significance and legacy of Haring's career as a whole.

This volume examines the ecological consequences of European expansion as a result of land use and resource exploitation.

This book advances a new theory of why nationalism emerged in the modern world.

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We are pleased to announce that A Critical History of Financial Crises has been included in CHOICE Magazine's Outstanding Academic Title list.

The starting point of this volume is the scathing attack, far-reaching in its consequences, launched in 1942 by J.

When Government Helped systematically evaluates some parallels between The Great Depression and the 2007-2008 global economic meltdown, not only in terms of their economic causes and consequences, but also in terms of their political and cultural contexts and the environmental crises that afflict both periods.

This book explores the development of the gas industry within Latin Europe (France, Italy, Portugal, and Spain).

Friedrich Hayek was the 20th century's most significant free market theorist.

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The Mediterranean was one of Napoleon's greatest spheres of influence.

Indusrialisation and Society provides an essential introduction to the effects of industrialisation on British society, from Queen Victoria's reign to the birth of the welfare state in the 1940s.

This is the first full-scale anthropometric history of Imperial Russia (1700-1917).

This book surveys the development of the Italian economy over the 150 years since unification, integrating economic analysis with an economic and social history of Italian society.

This book will take the reader on a journey through the economic thought of Europe, spanning from ancient Greece to the modern day.

This book offers a socio-historical analysis of migration and the possibilities of regional integration in Southern Africa.

For many decades economists have disputed with economic anthropologists over the origins of money.

The plebeians of Buenos Aires were crucial to the success of the revolutionary junta of May 1810, widely considered the start of the Argentine war of independence.

Immanuel Wallerstein's highly influential, multi-volume opus, The Modern World-System, is one of this century's greatest works of social science.

This monograph is devoted to a modern theory of capital cost and capital structure created by this book's authors, called the Brusov-Filatova-Orekhova (BFO) theory, and its application to the real economy.

In A History of Global Consumption: 1500 - 1800, Ina Baghdiantz McCabe examines the history of consumption throughout the early modern period using a combination of chronological and thematic discussion, taking a comprehensive and wide-reaching view of a subject that has long been on the historical agenda.

Sweeping changes have taken place in the financial sector during the twentieth century.

Following the peaceful dissolution of Czechoslovakia, the Slovak Republic emerged as an independent nation and embarked on a journey of economic transition and reform.

Shopping in Ancient Rome provides the first comprehensive account of the retail network of this ancient city, an area of commerce that has been largely neglected in previous studies.

Multinational Enterprise and Transnational Regions offers an innovative approach to the study of the history of transnational economic regions.

As analysis of the revenue available to Qing garrisons in Xinjiang reveals, imperial control over the region in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries depended upon sizeable yearly subsidies from China.

How can Turkey increase its medium- and long-term growth potential?

In 2021 Coventry celebrates being the national City of Culture.

First published in 1962.

An eye-opening interpretation of the infamous Gallipoli campaign that sets it in the context of global trade.

The themes of this study are the exchange rate regimes chosen by policy makers in the twentieth century, the means used to maintain these regimes, and the impact of these decisions on individual national economies and the world economy in general.

Drawing on years of research, Gerald Steele delves into the diverse ideas of Henry Simons, a neglected economist whose work in the 1930s on monetary and financial instability is extremely relevant to today's debates about commercial bank credit, the interdependence of fiscal and monetary policy, and financial regulation.

Die Wirtschaft des "Dritten Reichs" war zu weiten Teilen ausgerichtet auf Rüstung und Kriegsführung.

The originators of classical political economy-Adam Smith, David Ricardo, James Steuart, and others-created a discourse that explained the logic, the origin, and, in many respects, the essential rightness of capitalism.

The European Rescue of the Franco Regime, 1950-1975 explores how the governments of the founding members of the European Coal and Steel Community and the European Economic Community, acting collectively via the European Communities, assisted in the consolidation of the Franco regime.

For a number of years scholars who are concerned with issues of poverty and the poor have turned away from the study of charity and poor relief, in order to search for a view of the life of the poor from the point of view of the poor themselves.

This volume offers a comprehensive treatment of the development of Keynes's economic ideas in the General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money , using archival material, the historical record of the economics of Keynes's time and place and the scholarship available on Keynes's biography and philosophy.

The aim of this book, first published in 1977, is to use the tools developed by modern microeconomics to provide a framework for the analysis of policies towards the allocation of land and the control of activities using land.