Economic History category: 3271 books
British Entrepreneurship in Poland
A Case Study of Bradford Mills at Marki near Warsaw, 1883-1939
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Drawing upon an impressive range of international sources, this book explores the late-nineteenth century partnership between Bradford worsted manufacturers the Briggs brothers and the German merchant Ernst Posselt, and their subsequent foreign direct investment in a modern factory and workers’...
by Maurice Dobb
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
In Soviet Economy and the War the author presents a concise factual record of Soviet economic developments during a short period. This book outlines the economic planning and performance that accompanied the military training and preparation to meet the onset of Nazism.
To some extent complementary...
The Great Surge
The Ascent of the Developing World
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
The untold story of the global poor: “Powerful, lucid, and revelatory, The Great Surge…offers indispensable prescriptions about sustaining global economic progress into the future” (George Soros, chairman of Soros Fund Management).
We live today at a time of great progress for the global...
Industrial South Wales 1750-1914
Essays in Welsh Economic History
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
South Wales was one of the main centres of the Industrial Revolution in Britain but the story of the rapid growth of an industrial society there has not yet been fully told, since much of the work done has consisted of articles rather than books.
This volume brings together a selection of important...
Russia's Changing Economic and Political Regimes
The Putin Years and Afterwards
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
The book reveals the interconnection between social, cultural and political protest movements and social and economic changes in a post-communist country like Russia still dominated by bureaucratic rulers and "oligarchs" controlling all basic industries and mining activities. Those interests...
Canadian Agricultural Policy
The Historical Pattern
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1946
First published in 1946, this historical analysis of Canadian agricultural policy from 1600 to 1930 tests the assumption that agriculture has been Canada's basic industry, central in the economic and political life of the nation. Professor Fowke demonstrates that agricultural interests have always...
Empty Mills
The Fight Against Imports and the Decline of the U.S. Textile Industry
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2012
With the economy struggling, there has been much discussion about the effects of deindustrialization on American manufacturing. While the steel and auto industries have taken up most of the spotlight, the textile and apparel industries have been profoundly affected. In Empty Mills, Timothy Minchin...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Is Economics an ‘objective’ or ‘positive’ science, independent of ethical and political positions? The financial crisis that began in 2007 gave rise to renewed doubts regarding the ‘objectivity’ of economics and brought into the public arena a debate that was previously confined to academia....
Mountains of Debt
Crisis and Change in Renaissance Florence, Victorian Britain, and Postwar America
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 1990
Like the United States today, Renaissance Florence and Victorian Britain were the richest, most dynamic economic systems of their times. Yet each succumbed to a fiscal crisis brought on by public debt and taxation and eventually fell into long-term economic decline. Now, public debt and taxation dominate...
The Empire of the St. Lawrence
A Study in Commerce and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
Originally published in 1937 as "The Commercial Empire of the St. Lawrence, 1760-1850" and re-issued in its present form in 1956, Donald Creighton's study of the St. Lawrence became an essential text in Canadian history courses. This, his first book, helped establish Creighton as the foremost...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2017
This is the first book to examine the process of railway development in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and China from historical and comparative perspectives. Moreover, it discusses and compares the East Asian experiences of railway development with cases in Germany, which was a mainstay of railway development...
Order and Control in American Socio-Economic Thought
Social Scientists and Progressive-Era Reform
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
The Progressive Era is generally regarded as a period of extraordinary social, political, and economic change, affecting virtually every aspect of American life. In the last decades of the nineteenth century, American social scientists, drawing on their experiences with the German social welfare system,...
Economies of Desire at the Victorian Fin de Siècle
Libidinal Lives
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
This volume marks the first sustained study to interrogate how and why issues of sexuality, desire, and economic processes intersect in the literature and culture of the Victorian fin de siècle. At the end of the nineteenth-century, the move towards new models of economic thought marked the transition...
by Sidney Pollard
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Sidney Pollard has provided a concise survey of economic issues for students of the European community.
Going back to 1815, he links the progress of industrialisation in Europe to the relative ease with which ideas, men and capital were able to cross national frontiers. European frontiers make...