Economic history

First Published in 1968.

This book seeks to contribute a multi-dimensional, multi-layered and gendered approach to the illicit economy in the historiography of early modern Europe.

Reginald Zelnik uses a single episode-a militant strike at the Kreenholm factory, Europe's largest textile plant-to explore the broad historical moment.

Literary Representations of Precarious Work, 1840 to the Present sheds new light on literary representations of precarious labor from 1840 until the present.

Many accounts of German unification focus on war, diplomacy and Bismarck and on the crucial ten years up to 1871.

First Published in 1970.

During much of the second half of the 20th century advertising in Britain led the world.

What would separate Union and Confederate countries look like if the South had won the Civil War?

NATO is facing a unique crisis questioning its existence and future.

This volume narrates the financial history of the United States during a period of great upheaval in the early part of the 21st century.

This title was first published in 2001.

One cannot conceive of capitalism without labor.

Explores how foreign banks financially connected modern China to international capital markets and the global economy.

The Age of Railways was an era of extraordinary change which utterly transformed every aspect of British life - from trade and transportation to health and recreation.

Monetary law is essential to the functioning of private transactions and international dealings by the state: nearly every legal transaction has a monetary aspect.

This book explores the diversity of restructuring instruments applied to financial institutions in EU countries during the Global Financial Crisis.

For the past two centuries, brewing has been a constantly innovative and evolving industry, subject to changes in technology, taste and industrial structure.

Jeffrey Kopstein offers the first comprehensive study of East German economic policy over the course of the state's forty-year history.

This Palgrave Pivot offers a history of and proof against claims of "e;buying power"e; and the impact this myth has had on understanding media, race, class and economics in the United States.

German economic history in the industrial age has classically formed an important basis for the study of economic growth and industrialisation more generally.

At a time when Congressional investigations have taken on added importance and urgency in American politics, this book offers readers a rare, insider's portrait of the world of US Congressional oversight.

The Scottish miners experienced enormous changes during these sixty-five years.

Originally published in 1954, this book presents the view of nine liberal German historians in reconsideration of the dominant concepts of German political and cultural history in the immediate post-war years.

A ';stimulating' account of the capitalists who changed America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, setting the stage for the 1929 crash and Great Depression (Kirkus Reviews).

The Business of News in England, 1760-1820 explores the commerce of the English press during a critical period of press politicization, as the nation confronted foreign wars and revolutions that disrupted domestic governance.

A major new interpretation of Nazi influence in southeastern Europe through the concepts of soft power and informal empire.

This book provides an analysis of the dramatic shifts in American taxation through crises from the American Revolution through to the ''Great Recession''.

In this fascinating work, Louise Purbrick offers an alternative analysis of contemporary domestic consumption.

First Published in 1970.

How did the United States become the twentieth century's dominant economy?

David Ricardo has been acclaimed - or vilified - for merits he would never have dreamt of, or sins for which he was entirely innocent.

Geopolitical Economy radically reinterprets the historical evolution of the world order, as a multi-polar world emerges from the dust of the financial and economic crisis.

In The End of Economic Man, long recognized as a cornerstone work, Peter F.

This anthology adds to the burgeoning field of settler colonial studies by examining settler colonial narratives in the under analyzed medium of film.

This is the first comprehensive study of loans and debts in Central European countries in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period.

The dramatic story of Hitler and Stalin's marriage of convenience has been recounted frequently over the past 60 years, but with remarkably little consensus.

First published in 1928, The Payment of Wages came out amid the controversies over workshop conditions caused by the Great War.

Cheap street is a lively and scholarly account of London's street markets, which were an overlooked site of urban modernity and the most vigorous outgrowth of the informal economy that flourished below and beyond the recognised institutions of the consumer city.

In the postsoviet decade Russian railways remained highly centralised, evaded the upheavals of mass privatisation, and remained the backbone of a demoralised economy.

We live in an age of economic paradox.

This book intends to renovate the view of social sciences in the German-speaking world.

First published in 1986, this book challenges the notion that the miners' strike of 1984-5 was 'Scargill's Strike'.

A sweeping germ's-eye view of history from human origins to global pandemicsPlagues Upon the Earth is a monumental history of humans and their germs.

This book provides the first comprehensive study of the 'special relationship' between Southern Rhodesia and South Africa.

This groundbreaking account of the development of American business from the colonial period to the present explains that the history of the United States can best be understood not as a search for freedombut as a search for wealth and prosperity.

The 10 essays here are the result of a conference devoted to the study of medieval technology in April 1995.