Economic History category: 3271 books
by William Ashworth
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
This is a comprehensive account of a decisive epoch in England's economic development by a leading economic historian.
'Works of economic history often get bogged dwon in figures - so many machines, so much unemployment, often, too, they are histories of technology, not of economic organization....
Crises in Economic and Social History
A Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
This collection of essays brings together historians examining social and economic crises from the thirteenth century to the twenty-first. Crisis is an almost ubiquitous concept for historians, applicable across (amongst others) the histories of agriculture, disease, finance and trade. Yet there has...
The South Sea Bubble
An Economic History of its Origins and Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
The book is an economic history of the South Sea Bubble. It combines economic theory and quantitative analysis with historical evidence in order to provide a rounded account. It brings together scholarship from a variety of different fields to update the existing historical work on the Bubble. Up...
by Tirthankar Roy
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
The death of the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb in 1707 until the annexation of Maratha territories by the British East India Company in 1818 was a period of transition for the economy of India. This book focuses on these transitions, and shows how a study of this period of Indian history contributes to...
Ireland's Economic History
Crisis and Development in the North and South
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2011
This book explores the complex developments that have shaped Ireland's economic development, north and south, and led to recurring crises and instability. *BR**BR*The Irish economy has been traditionally portrayed as a product of its political divisions and the colonial legacy, divided and analysed...
by AA. VV.
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Archives of Italian Economic and Business History starts publication with this issue made up of research on some specifically Italian topics. After a detailed overview of consumption, the book deals with the experiences of small Italian entrepreneurs in Toronto and the movie industry in Italy; then...
The State and Business in the Major Powers
An Economic History 1815-1939
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the state emerged as a major player in the economies of the Western World.
This important new volume provides an economic history for the period 1815-1939 of state/business relations in the major powers: France, Germany, Japan, Russia, UK and the USA. The...
A History of Market Performance
From Ancient Babylonia to the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
This exciting new volume examines the development of market performance from Antiquity until the dawn of the Industrial Revolution.
Efficient market structures are agreed by most economists to serve as evidence of economic prosperity, and to be prerequisites for further economic growth. However,...
An Economic History of Nineteenth-Century Europe
Diversity and Industrialization
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Why did some countries and regions of Europe reach high levels of economic advancement in the nineteenth century, while others were left behind? This new transnational survey of the continent's economic development highlights the role of regional differences in shaping each country's economic path...
Technology and the Environment in State-Socialist Hungary
An Economic History
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
This book explains how and why the state-socialist regime in Hungary used technology and propaganda to foster industrialization and the conservation of natural resources simultaneously. Further, this book explains why this process was ultimately a failure. By exploring the environmental pre-history...
Large Databases in Economic History
Research Methods and Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
‘Big data’ is now readily available to economic historians, thanks to the digitisation of primary sources, collaborative research linking different data sets, and the publication of databases on the internet. Key economic indicators, such as the consumer price index, can be tracked over long periods,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
A new edition of the leading textbook on the economic history of Britain since industrialization. Combining the expertise of more than thirty leading historians and economists, Volume 2 tracks the development of the British economy from late nineteenth-century global dominance to its early twenty-first...
by AA. VV.
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2019
This second issue of Archives of Italian economic and business history is dedicated to Franco Bonelli, a scholar who made an invaluable contribution to understanding Italian economic development thanks to his studies in economic and business history. A collection of essays by Amatori, Ciocca, Carparelli,...
The Economic Thought of William Petty
Exploring the Colonialist Roots of Economics
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
William Petty (1623-1687), long recognised as a founding father of English political economy, was actively involved in the military-colonial administration of Ireland following its invasion by Oliver Cromwell, and to the end of his days continued to devise schemes for securing England’s continued...