Economic history books

In this important study, Patrick Honohan, former governor of the Central Bank of Ireland, calls on central banks...  Read More >>

This book explores India's unique experiment building a socialist economic system alongside a democratic political...  Read More >>

First published in 1960, Pilkington Brothers and the Glass Industry is a comprehensive economic history of the glass...  Read More >>

First published in 1987, International Capitalism and Industrial Restructuring counters the idea that industrial...  Read More >>

A stunning photographic tour of more than twenty sites—both abandoned and operational—that are emblematic of America’s...  Read More >>

The book introduces the work of two key scholars working in Chinese economic history and land property history,...  Read More >>

It is widely known that – at least in current societies - culture depends on money. Less attention has been given...  Read More >>

This a systematic enquiry on the development and growth trajectories of Kerala since state formation. The book engages...  Read More >>

An eye-opening rethinking of nineteenth-century American history that reveals the interdependence of the Northern...  Read More >>

At the crossroads of China and Southeast Asia, The Port (present-day Hà Tiên), under the autonomous rule of the...  Read More >>

Analyses how bankruptcy was litigated within the court to gain a more nuanced understanding of early modern bankruptcy....  Read More >>

This a systematic enquiry on the development and growth trajectories of Kerala since state formation. The book engages...  Read More >>

At the crossroads of China and Southeast Asia, The Port (present-day Hà Tiên), under the autonomous rule of the...  Read More >>

Sarah Palmer's authoritative work is the first to treat the history of London and its port as one subject. She brings...  Read More >>

Ricardo's Dream tells the fascinating story of David Ricardo, Adam Smith's only real rival as the 'founder of economics':...  Read More >>

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This volume provides a new commercial perspective on contraception in modern Britain. It examines contraceptives...  Read More >>

Dieses Buch befasst sich mit einer kurzen Wirtschaftsgeschichte Deutschlands seit der Wiedervereinigung im Jahre...  Read More >>

The pioneering and still relevant Marxist studies of the transition from feudalism to capitalism in this collection...  Read More >>

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This book seeks to bridge a gap in the historiography of Spain and Great Britain by arguing that while the 18th...  Read More >>

Starting from the idea that economic relations are all social relations, and every economic fact is first a social...  Read More >>

The clear-eyed definitive history of the modern American economy and the decline of the American dream.  Read More >>

Latin American Economic History: An Introduction to Daily Life, Debt, and Development guides readers through significant...  Read More >>

Three Consuls examines American ambitions in the Mediterranean in the generations after independence through the...  Read More >>