Economic history books

First published in 1956, The Post-War Condition of Britain measures the extent of changes in Britain since the thirties....  Read More >>

First published in 1979, The Miners: A History of the National Union of Mineworkers 1939-46 describes the events...  Read More >>

First published in 1955, A History of the Scottish Miners recounts the peculiar circumstances of the seventeenth...  Read More >>

First published in 1961, The Miners in Crisis and War: A History of Miners’ Federation of Great Britain from 1930...  Read More >>

First published in 1969, Advising Ministers is a general account of the arrangements for ‘advising Ministers’, based...  Read More >>

First published in 1986, Denmark seeks to show the way in which modern Denmark, with its high standard of living,...  Read More >>

First published in 1930, New Zealand in the Making is an economic history of the democratic experiments in New Zealand....  Read More >>

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This book analyses the transformation in 16th- and 17th-century English economic life that overturned the traditional...  Read More >>

An advantageous location and entrepreneurial passion helped fuel Chicago's transformation from a fur trading post...  Read More >>

By the end of the nineteenth century, there were already some countries in southern Europe whose economies benefitted...  Read More >>

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Commemorating the 250th anniversary of James Mill’s birth and the 150th of John Stuart Mill’s death, this volume...  Read More >>

Contested commodities range from labour to votes, to human organs, to parks and emissions. But in the context of...  Read More >>

This book challenges the foregoing consensus by showing that the French economy performed poorly relative to its...  Read More >>

This book starts with an assumption that actors are controlled by diverse, inconsistent forces and shows that introducing...  Read More >>

This book seeks to contribute a multi-dimensional, multi-layered and gendered approach to the illicit economy in...  Read More >>

This book sheds new light on the general equilibrium theory of Léon Walras (1834–1910) from a historical perspective....  Read More >>

The 1970s are widely seen as a turning point for the world economy and a transformative decade for the international...  Read More >>

Showing how the history of the apple goes far beyond the orchard and into the social, cultural and technological...  Read More >>

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Starting from the Knights Templar and ending with contemporary national banking champions, it presents several case...  Read More >>

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This book offers an in-depth examination of the institutional framework within which money operated as an economic...  Read More >>