Economic history

This book is an extension of the author's last book (Crisis and Sustainability: The Delusion of Free Markets, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) and sheds light on the evolution of the financial system after the 2007/08 crisis and on changes and developments in the regulatory framework that have taken place concurrently over the last ten years.

This two-volume collection analyses the evolution of wine production in European regions across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

This two-volume collection analyses the evolution of wine production in European regions across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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.

This edited collection examines the formation of urban networks and role of gateways in Europe from the Middle Ages to the modern world.

Recent decades have seen many economic history books and articles published about working men and women, small and big entrepreneurs, guilds and state manufactures, farmers and journeymen, and children and citizens.

This book is the first of two volumes that aim to provide an up-to-date overview of the key data and techniques necessary for analysing the historical behaviour of business and financial cycles in the United Kingdom.

This book has a dual purpose.

At the center of sweeping change to food retailing practices in Victorian and Edwardian England lies one man: John Pearce.

Innovation in money is just as important as innovation in any other sphere of activity; money is always a "e;work in progress.

This book provides numerous examples that apply the modern theory of bureaucracy developed in Breton and Wintrobe (1982 and 1986) to the Nazi Holocaust.

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

This book provides an in-depth account of the politics of the Eurozone crisis in Italy, Spain, Greece, Portugal, Cyprus and Malta, mapping the positions expressed by the governments of Southern EU countries during the Eurozone crisis negotiations, including Greece's bailout deal, the so-called "e;Six Pack"e; and the "e;Fiscal Compact"e; and exploring the process of domestic preference formation.

This edited collection explores the historical determinants of the rise of mass schooling and human capital accumulation based on a global, long-run perspective, focusing on a variety of countries in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa and the Americas.

Using the basic economic principle of making decisions using a cost-benefit framework-and how changes in one or the other can result in a different decision-this book uncovers how various groups responded to incentives provided by the Prohibition legislation.

This book seeks to deepen readers' understanding of world history by investigating urbanization and the evolution of urban systems, as well as the urban world, from the perspective of historical analysis.

This book offers insights into the behaviour of the Portuguese economy in relation to economic growth from the twentieth century to the present.

Focusing on the transition from political economy to economics, this volume seeks to restore social content to economic abstractions through readings of nineteenth-century British and American literature.

This volume documents recent efforts to track the transformation and trajectory of silver during the early modern period, from its origins in ores located on either side of the Atlantic to its use as currency in the financial centres of continental Europe.

In 2021 Coventry celebrates being the national City of Culture.

Very little has been written on the economy of East Timor since the country's independence in 2002, and no comprehensive account exists of the economic history of the country.

The evolution of inequality and its causes are of crucial importance to all scholars working in the social sciences.

This book offers a new perspective on the financialisation of the economy and its profound technological transformation in an increasingly interdependent and globalised world.

This book adds a crucial focus on morality to the growing literature on the history of capitalism by exploring social and cultural perspectives on the economic order that has dominated the modern world.

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

This two-volume study explores the economy of East Timor, of which very little has been written since the country gained independence in 2002.

This book argues that inequality is not just about numbers, but is also about lived, historical experience.

This book focuses on the significant role of West African consumers in the development of the global economy.

In the course of the twentieth century, Italy succeeded in establishing itself as one of the world's preeminent fashion capitals, despite the centuries-old predominance of Paris and London.

This Palgrave Pivot revisits the topic of how British colonialism moulded work and life in India and what kind of legacy it left behind.

This monograph explores traditional farming communities in French-speaking areas of the western Alps for the period 1500-1914 and how they endured in such an environment despite the many problems and risks which it posed for their subsistence and welfare.

This book discusses the 1918 European socialization debate, its consequences, and its relevance a century later.

This book considers the cultural legacy of the Keynesian Revolution in economics.

This book is one of the first historical revisions of the Latin American debt crisis of 1982, exploring recently disclosed archival sources for a number of creditor and debtor institutions.

This interdisciplinary edited collection explores the dynamics of global capitalist expansion through the concept of the 'commodity frontier'.

This edited collection demonstrates how economic history can be analysed using both quantitative and qualitative methods, connecting statistical research with the social, cultural and psychological aspects of history.

While there is an extensive historiography which explores English agriculture in the nineteenth century, there has been less attention paid to individual estates and in particular the role of the land agent within their management, administration and participation in rural community relationships.

Looking at the precedents set by the panic of 1907 and the Great Depression in America, this book investigates the causes of the 2007-2008 financial crisis.

This book reviews the profound transformation to the Greek political economy in recent years and considers the reasons that have led to this transformation.

'This is a desperately needed book.

This monograph provides a comprehensive analysis of the political economy of the Turkish Cypriot governance in the northern part of Cyprus after 1974.

This book applies the contents of a working economist's tool-kit to explain, clearly and intuitively, when and why over the course of four centuries individuals, families, and enterprises decided to locate in or around the lower Hudson River Valley.

This edited volume analyzes land utilization data from farm surveys taken in China between 1929 and 1933.

 This book addresses the causes and consequences of the international financial crisis of 2008.

This monograph puts a focus on the fundamental role of timber, in the European industrialization process.

This Palgrave Pivot explores the recent financial crisis from a new perspective.

The papers in this proceedings volume were presented at the 9th international conference "e;The Economies of the Balkan and Eastern European Countries in the Changing World"e; (EBEEC) held in Athens, Greece, in April 2017.

Bankers are administrators of other people's money, and they are responsible both to their depositors and to other stakeholders.

This book is the third installment in a series of volumes looking at episodes in American economic history from a public choice perspective.

This edited collection explores the ways in which the 2008/2009 social and economic crisis in Southern Europe affected the interpretation of the transitional past in Spain, Greece and Portugal.