Economic History category: 3271 books
German Industry and German Industrialisation
Essays in German Economic and Business History in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Originally published in 1991 this book brings together 9 essays which address a number of central issues relating to the nature of German industrialisation, including the role of foreign competition in fostering technological change, the importance of market integration for economic development and...
Rethinking Canadian Economic Growth and Development since 1900
The Quebec Case
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
This book upturns many established ideas regarding the economic and social history of Quebec, the Canadian province that is home to the majority of its French population. It places the case of Quebec into the wider question of convergence in economic history and whether proactive governments delay...
by Ranjit S. Dighe
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2016
Putting Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in historical context, connecting it to pivotal issues like slavery, class, money, and American economic expansion, this book engages readers by presenting American history through the lens of a great novel.
• Presents Twain's book as a...
by Victor Bulmer-Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012
This book examines the economic history of the Caribbean in the two hundred years since the Napoleonic Wars and is the first analysis to span the whole region. It is divided into three parts, each centered around a particular case study: the first focuses on the nineteenth century ('The Age of Free...
Justice in the Marketplace in Early Modern Spain
Saravia, Villalon and the Religious Origins of Economic Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Justice in the Marketplace in Early Modern Spain examines two late scholastic economic treatises, the Provechoso tratado de cambios of Cristóbal de Villalón (1542) and the Instrución de mercaderes of Saravia de la Calle (1544). It does this in the context of the two principal questions that economic...
British-Owned Railways in Argentina
Their Effect on the Growth of Economic Nationalism, 1854-1948
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
During the nineteenth century, British-owned railways grew under the protection of an Argentine ruling elite that considered railways both instruments and symbols of progress. Under this program of support for foreign enterprise, Argentina had by 1914 built the largest railway network in Latin America....
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology is an annual research series which presents materials in two fields, both broadly considered: the history of economic thought and the methodology of economics. The annual A-volume contains peer-reviewed articles comparable to other academic...
The Italians Who Built Toronto
Italian Workers and Contractors in the Citys Housebuilding Industry, 19501980
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
After World War II, hundreds of thousands of Italians emigrated to Toronto. This book describes their labour, business, social and cultural history as they settled in their new home. It addresses fundamental issues that impacted both them and the city, including ethnic economic niching, unionization,...
The First Export Era Revisited
Reassessing its Contribution to Latin American Economies
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
This book challenges the wide-ranging generalizations that dominate the literature on the impact of export-led growth upon Latin America during the first export era. The contributors to this volume contest conventional approaches, stemming from structuralism and dependency theory, which portray a...
Central Asia and the Silk Road
Economic Rise and Decline over Several Millennia
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
This book offers a comprehensive overview of the pre-modern economic history of Central Asia and the Silk Road, covering several millennia. By analyzing an abundance of sources and materials, it illustrates the repeated economic heydays of the Silk Road, during which it linked the Orient and Occident...
Forging Ahead, Falling Behind and Fighting Back
British Economic Growth from the Industrial Revolution to the Financial Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
To what extent has the British economy declined compared to its competitors and what are the underlying reasons for this decline? Nicholas Crafts, one of the world's foremost economic historians, tackles these questions in a major new account of Britain's long-run economic performance. He argues that...
by Ranald Michie
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
First published in 1987, this is a reissue of the first book to offer a detailed comparison of two of the foremost stock exchanges in world before 1914. It is not only an exercise in comparative economic history but it also relates these institutions to wider world markets, thereby clarifying...
Cameralism in Practice
State Administration and Economy in Early Modern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
This book discusses the impact of cameralism on the practices of governance, early modern state-building and economy in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe. It argues that the cameralist conception of state and economy - a form of 'science' of government dedicated to reforming society while...
John Stuart Mill
Political Economist
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
John Stuart Mill: Political Economist is a revised version of the part of Samuel Hollander's The Economics of John Stuart Mill (1985) treating the theory of economic policy. In this book, Professor Hollander offers a critical yet sympathetic analysis of Mill's quest to accomplish thorough reform of...