Economic history

Living continuously in Iran for over 2700 years, Jews have played an integral role in the history of the country.

The lasting effects of corporate fiascos on business and the economy have spurred investigations, panel discussions, and research in an attempt to find out why these events happen and ways to prevent them.

Over the last two centuries, artists, critics, philosophers and theorists have contributed significantly to such representations of "e;the economy"e; as sublime.

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

Situates changes in the nature of money and the rise of sophisticated financial structures at the centre of the Enlightenment.

During the twentieth century 'affluence' (both at the level of the individual household and that of society as a whole) became intimately linked with access to a range of prestige consumer durables.

This collection brings together a range of case studies by both established and early career scholars to consider the nexus between business and development in post-colonial Africa.

This book deconstructs a series of myths surrounding China's economic rise.

Relative to the other habited places on our planet, Hawai'i has a very short history.

This book examines the economic and business history of Sudan, placing Sudan into the wider context of the impact of imperialism on economic development in sub-Saharan Africa.

The Big Problem of Small Change offers the first credible and analytically sound explanation of how a problem that dogged monetary authorities for hundreds of years was finally solved.

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

This is the first modern study of the Fellowship of Merchant Adventurers - England's most important trading company of the sixteenth century - in its final century of existence as a privileged organisation.

History of the Conquest of Peru (1959) contains a detailed analysis of the political, religious and social organisation of the Incas prior to the arrival of the Spanish colonisers, and then moves on to look at the story of the conquest and subjugation of the Incan Empire, the largest in South America.

To provide an understanding of financial globalization from a historical point of view, this book sheds light on international banking in Asia before World War II.

Property is central to any historical analyses of production, reproduction and consumption.

China has undergone a remarkable transition over the past thirty years from a centrally-planned economy to a more market oriented one.

First Published in 1990.

First Published in 2005.

This book analyses the contribution of Eugen (Jeno) Varga (1879-1964) on Marxist-Leninist economic theory as well as the influence he exercised on Stalin's foreign policy and through the Comintern on the international communist movement.

This history of sterling shows how the Bank of England defended the pound and managed foreign exchange.

This book examines Nordic cities from 1850 and their transformation from traditional, oligarchic towns to modern, inclusive welfare cities.

In this first comparative study of Chinese and Zimbabwean railway experiences, Gao examines the role played by technological progress in generating significant social change.

This general introduction to the theory of money and of balance of payments adjustment was originally published in 1969.

Why does capitalism triumph in the West but fail almost everywhere else?

One of the most persistent, powerful, and dangerous notions in the history of the Jews in the diaspora is the prodigious talent attributed to them in all things economic.

In 1943, Lebanon gained its formal political independence from France; only after two more decades did the country finally establish a national central bank.

Volume 41A of Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology features a symposium on "e;Religion, the Scottish Enlightenment, and the Rise of Liberalism,"e; a new research essay by Syed Mohib Ali, and a roundtable on the institutionalist economics of Geoffrey Hodgson.

This title is part of UC Presss Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.

A historical assessment of recent relations between the British Government and the City of London.

The fifth edition of The European Economy provides a succinct and lucid account of the development and problems of the European economy since the first world war.

World War II and its aftermath brought devastating material losses to millions of West Germans.

The Global Great Depression and the Coming of World War II demonstrates the ways in which the economic crisis of the late 1920s and early 1930s helped to cause and shape the course of the Second World War.

Dieses Heft widmet sich dem Verhältnis von Zeit und Region.

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The first discussion of Aztec economy to include cross-cultural comparisons with other ancient and premodern societies around the world.

This monograph provides the first comprehensive analysis of industrial development in Ireland and its impact on Irish society between 1801-1922.

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

This volume presents a systematic and fresh interpretation of a mid-second-century AD papyrus - the so-called Muziris papyrus - which preserves on its two sides fragments of a unique pair of documents: on one side, a loan agreement to finance a commercial enterprise to South India and, on the other, an assessment of the fiscal value of a South Indian cargo imported on a ship named the Hermapollon.

Es läuft ganz und gar nicht rund in unserer Wirtschaft: Kam bereits vor der Pandemie der Wohlstand nicht mehr bei allen an, wurde die soziale Ungleichheit durch Corona noch weiter verschärft.

First published in 1998, this book explores the physical and technological changes which occurred in the growing bureaucracies of big-business and of government as well as in the small and mid-size business of the city.

This title, first published in 1984, focuses primarily on the early Industrial Revolution (c.

Contemporary methodologies include the "e;cliometric"e; style of historical analysis, econometrics, labour and regional study, and the changing parameters of government spending and public finance.

The first long-term analysis of the process of structural change and productivity growth in Asia, Europe, Latin America and the USA.

This monograph is the first book-length study of foreign direct investment in Southeast Asia during both the late colonial period and in the contemporary period.