Economic History category: 3271 books
Current Approaches to Business and Institutional Translation Enfoques actuales en traducción económica e institucional
Proceedings of the international conference on economic, business, financial and institutional translation Actas del congreso international de traducción económica, commercial, financiere e institucional
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
The aim of this publication is to disseminate some of the talks given at the International Conference on Economic, Business, Financial and Institutional Translation, which took place at the University of Alicante on 29–31 May 2014 and was organised by the University’s Department of Translation...
Trade and Institutions in the Medieval Mediterranean
The Geniza Merchants and their Business World
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2012
The Geniza merchants of the eleventh-century Mediterranean - sometimes called the 'Maghribi traders' - are central to controversies about the origins of long-term economic growth and the institutional bases of trade. In this book, Jessica Goldberg reconstructs the business world of the Geniza merchants,...
Gambling on War
Confidence, Fear, and the Tragedy of the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
The First World War left a legacy of chaos that is still with us a century later. Why did European leaders resort to war and why did they not end it sooner? Roger L. Ransom sheds new light on this enduring puzzle by employing insights from prospect theory and notions of risk and uncertainty. He reveals...
by R. W. Davies, Mark Harrison, Oleg Khlevniuk
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
This book concludes The Industrialisation of Soviet Russia, an authoritative account of the Soviet Union’s industrial transformation between 1929 and 1939. The volume before this one covered the ‘good years’ (in economic terms) of 1934 to 1936. The present volume has a darker tone: beginning...
Hitler's Shadow Empire
Nazi Economics and the Spanish Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
The Nazis provided Franco’s Nationalists with planes, armaments, and tanks in their civil war against the Communists but behind this largesse was a Faustian bargain. Pierpaolo Barbieri makes a convincing case that the Nazis hoped to establish an economic empire in Europe, and in Spain they tested the tactics intended for future subject territories.
Regions, Industries, and Heritage.
Perspectives on Economy, Society, and Culture in Modern Western Europe
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
The industrial age has proved to be a formative period for Europe. Industrial heritage nowadays bears witness to the development that took place in differently structured regions. This volume presents different paths of industrial development and gives an overview of the concepts of regions, used among economic, social and cultural historians.
by Gottfried Feder
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2019
Gottfried Feder’s Manifesto for Breaking the Financial Slavery to Interest is one of a series of three books by the important, albeit now obscure German campaigner against parasitic debt-finance-capitalism. It was Feder who gave opposition to debt-finance and a demand for a new banking system a...
by David Thoms, Tom Donnelly
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
This book, originally published in 1985, examines the development of the car industry in Coventry within both its local context and the wider economic environment. It is a study of expansion and adjustment which reflects the broader pattern of Britain's industrial history. The book analyses the emergence...
by Prof. Larry Neal
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
Two of the greatest financial fiascos of all time took place at the same time and were instigated by two acquaintances: the Mississippi Bubble, on which John Law at first made a vast fortune and gained sway over French finances; and the South Sea Bubble, launched by Law and Thomas Pitt, Jr., Lord Londonderry,...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Port cities were the means through which cultural and economic exchange took place between continental societies and the maritime world. In examining the ports of Brazil, the Caribbean and West Africa, this volume will provide fresh insight into the meaning of the 'First Globalisation'.
Including a Symposium on Latin American Monetary Thought
Two Centuries in Search of Originality
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
Volume 36C of Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology features a symposium edited by Andrés Álvarez on monetary economics in post-independence Latin America. The symposium features contributions from Matías Vernengo and Esteban Pérez Caldentey, Ricardo Solis Rosales, Florencia...
The Impact of Price Uncertainty
A Study of Brazilian Exchange Rate Policy
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Originally published in 1979. This book addresses three questions regarding uncertainty in economic life: how do we define uncertainty and use the concept meaningfully to provide conclusions; how can the level of uncertainty associated with a particular variable of economic interest be measured; and...
A Compendium of Italian Economists at Oxbridge
Contributions to the Evolution of Economic Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2016
This study examines five decades of Italian economists who studied or researched at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge between the years 1950 and 2000. Providing a detailed list of Italian economists associated with Hicks, Harrod, Bacharach, Flemming, Mirrlees, Sen and other distinguished dons,...
by Thomas Widlok
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
This book examines the economy of sharing in a variety of social and political contexts around the world, with consideration given to the role of sharing in relation to social order and social change, political power, group formation, individual networks and concepts of personhood. Widlok advocates...