Economic History category: 3271 books
War in the History of Economic Thought
Economists and the Question of War
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Even after the experience of WWII and despite the existence of various institutions such as United Nations to avoid conflict between nations, we have not succeeded in making a world free from war. The Cold War, the Vietnam War, the intervention of the superpowers in local conflicts and the spread...
Gentlemanly Capitalism and British Imperialism
The New Debate on Empire
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2014
The publication by Longman of P J Cain and A.G. Hopkins two-volume study of "British Imperialism" (1688-1914; 1914-1994) caused a sensation amongst historians of European imperialism and economic international history. The theory of `gentlemanly capitalism' - the complex of economic, social...
New World Gold
Cultural Anxiety and Monetary Disorder in Early Modern Spain
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2010
The discovery of the New World was initially a cause for celebration. But the vast amounts of gold that Columbus and other explorers claimed from these lands altered Spanish society. The influx of such wealth contributed to the expansion of the Spanish empire, but also it raised doubts and insecurities...
by Henri Pirenne
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
by Vernon Fowke
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1957
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1957
First published in 1957, this study traces the development of the national policy as it affected the growth of the Canadian trade and discusses the grain marketing problems of Western Canada in the decades that followed, with detailed attention to legislation and moves by various growers' groups in...
Monetary Regimes and Inflation
History, Economic and Political Relationships, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Exploring the characteristics of inflations and comparing historical cases from Roman times up to the modern day, this book provides an in depth discussion of the subject. It analyses the high and moderate inflations caused by the inflationary bias of political systems and economic relationships, as...
The Political Economy of Sugar Production in Colonial Kenya
The Asian Initiative in Central Nyanza
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
This book describes the Asian agency in sugar production in colonial Nyanza and additionally examines the Asian initiative and the development of commercial cane farming in Central Nyanza. It provides a different perspective on the Asian initiative in agriculture by showing how Asians were involved...
Coping with Financial Crises
Some Lessons from Economic History
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
This edited volume is based on original essays first presented at the World Economic History Conference, Kyoto, Japan, in August 2015. It also includes three essays subsequently written especially for this volume. All of the essays focus on financial markets in the periods leading up to, during, and...
The Study of Economic History
Collected Inaugural Lectures 1893-1970
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
by Richard Jones
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
In 1831 Jones published his Essay on the Distribution of Wealth and on the Sources of Taxation, his most important work. In it he showed himself a thorough-going critic of the Ricardian system. Jones's method is inductive; his conclusions are founded on a wide observation of contemporary facts, aided...
A Destiny of Choice?
New Directions in American Consumer History
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
In the twentieth century, Americans thought of the United States as a land of opportunity and equality. To what extent and for whom this was true was, of course, a matter of debate, however especially during the Cold War, many Americans clung to the patriotic conviction that America was the land of...
by Brian Silverman
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2012
Business historians and economic historians frequently contribute to our understanding of strategic management, and strategy scholars often rely on a deep understanding of historical context to make sense of classic strategy issues. Historically, the two sets of scholars have not always communicated...
by Stuart Kirby
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
This book focuses on the production of low-quality goods, the rise of markets for imitations and shoddy goods, and dishonest trading practices which developed along with the expansion of global trade in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in East Asia. Fake, imitation, counterfeit, and adulterated...