Economic History category: 3271 books
Industries and Global Competition
A History of Business Beyond Borders
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Changes in the dynamics of economic activities since the last decades of the 20th century have yielded major changes in the composition of industries and the division of labor and production across different regions of the world. Despite these shifts in the global economy, some industries have remained...
The Company of Strangers
A Natural History of Economic Life - Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2010
The Company of Strangers shows us the remarkable strangeness, and fragility, of our everyday lives. This completely revised and updated edition includes a new chapter analyzing how the rise and fall of social trust explain the unsustainable boom in the global economy over the past decade and the financial...
The Children of Eve
Population and Well-being in History
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
The Children of Eve is the first book to bring together general material about population and well-being in a single volume. It presents a world history of demographic and economic change that ranges broadly over time and space and which emphasizes the commonality of human experience.
The first...
by Lawrence H. Officer
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
This book presents the lifelong and ongoing research of Lawrence H. Officer in a systematic way. The result is an authoritative treatment of such issues as market structure and economic efficiency where more than one characteristic of a commodity is priced, both in general and in application to shipping...
by Irene Finel-Honigman
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
The world of finance is again undergoing crisis and transformation. This book provides a new perspective on finance through the prism of popular and formal culture and examines fascination and repulsion toward money, the role of governments and individuals in financial crises and how the Crisis of...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
The Routledge International Handbook of Globalization Studies offers students clear and informed chapters on the history of globalization and key theories that have considered the causes and consequences of the globalization process. There are substantive sections looking at demographic, economic,...
by Gurcharan Das
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2001
India today is a vibrant free-market democracy, a nation well on its way to overcoming decades of widespread poverty. The nation’s rise is one of the great international stories of the late twentieth century, and in India Unbound the acclaimed columnist Gurcharan Das offers a sweeping economic history...
A Golden Weed
Tobacco and Environment in the Piedmont South
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
Drew A. Swanson has written an “environmental” history about a crop of great historical and economic significance: American tobacco. A preferred agricultural product for much of the South, the tobacco plant would ultimately degrade the land that nurtured it, but as the author provocatively argues,...
The Rise of the Global Company
Multinationals and the Making of the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2016
This is the first full account of how an influential form of commercial organization - the multinational enterprise - drove globalization and contributed to the making of the modern world. Robert Fitzgerald explores the major role of multinational enterprises in the events of world history, from the...
The Story of Silver
How the White Metal Shaped America and the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
How silver influenced two hundred years of world history, and why it matters today
This is the story of silver’s transformation from soft money during the nineteenth century to hard asset today, and how manipulations of the white metal by American president Franklin D. Roosevelt during the...
A Monetary History of the United Kingdom
1870-1982
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
This book is the culmination of a major research programme on the monetary history of the United Kingdom.
This volume contains monetary series ranging from detailed balance sheet material to monetary aggregates such as M3 and are in monthly, quarterly and annual form. The data are drawn mostly...
Another Marx
Early Manuscripts to the International
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
Following the break-up of the Soviet Union, Marx was regarded as a thinker doomed to oblivion about whom everything had already been said and written. However, the international economic crisis of 2008 favoured a return to his analysis of capitalism, and recently published volumes of the Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe...
Parliament, Inventions and Patents
A Research Guide and Bibliography
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
This book is a research guide and bibliography of Parliamentary material, including the Old Scottish Parliament and the Old Irish Parliament, relating to patents and inventions from the early seventeenth century to 1976. It chronicles the entire history of a purely British patent law before the coming...
The Chinese Journals of L.K. Little, 1943–54
An Eyewitness Account of War and Revolution, Volume I
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Lester Knox Little kept a detailed journal of his time in China and Taiwan. Covering the years 1943 to 1954 it provides important new insights about some of the most dramatic episodes in China’s mid-twentieth century history: Sino-Japanese military and economic competition, China’s domestic political...