The Eclipse of 'Elegant Economy'

Martin Cohen

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Economic and Social History
• Elizabeth Gaskell might have been amused to learn that the Victorian 'elegant economy' she mocked so poignantly in Cranford reached a new apogee in th... Lees meer

Industrial Clusters and Regional Business Networks in England, 1750-1970

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Economic and Social History
• Although economists have long recognised industrial districts as one of the key features of many economies, it is only recently that attention has bee... Lees meer

Across the Borders

Günter Dinhobl

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Economic and Social History
• Across the Borders explores the transnational history of railway economics in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It is the first systematic histo... Lees meer

Governance, Growth and Global Leadership

Espen Moe

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Economic and Social History
• This book focuses on the role of the state in promoting a country's long-term technological progress and industrial leadership. Throughout history, a ... Lees meer

Industrial Clusters and Regional Business Networks in England, 1750-1970

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Economic and Social History
• Although economists have long recognised industrial districts as one of the key features of many economies, it is only recently that attention has bee... Lees meer

Eastern European Railways in Transition

Henry Jacolin

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Economic and Social History
• In this volume, leading transport history scholars take a fresh look at the impact of the Cold War upon European railways both before and after 1989. ... Lees meer

Memory and Memorials

William Kidd, Brian Murdoch

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Economic and Social History
• The twentieth century, perhaps more than any other, was shaped by war and conflict. In particular, the two world wars have had a profound influence on... Lees meer

Personal Capitalism and Corporate Governance

Myrddin John Lewis, Roger Lloyd-Jones, Mark David Matthews

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Economic and Social History
• This book is specifically aimed at addressing a gap in the study of the evolution of corporate governance in Britain. In particular its key theme, the... Lees meer

Eastern European Railways in Transition

Henry Jacolin

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Economic and Social History
• During the nineteenth century, railway lines spread rapidly across Europe, linking the continent in ways unimaginable to previous generations. By the ... Lees meer

Trade Unions and the Economy: 1870-2000

Derek H Aldcroft, Michael J Oliver

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Economic and Social History
• What do unions do and why do they do it? Do they seek to maximise profit for their members, or to obtain better working conditions that benefit societ... Lees meer

Vicarious Consumers

Manuel Perez-Garcia

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Economic and Social History
• The birth of a mass consumer society in Western Europe has been the subject of much scholarly debate in recent years. In order to come to a further un... Lees meer

Rethinking Nineteenth-Century Liberalism

Simon Morgan

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Economic and Social History
• Richard Cobden (1804-65) rose from humble beginnings to become the leading advocate of nineteenth-century free-trade and liberalism. As a fierce oppon... Lees meer

British Mail Steamers to South America, 1851-1965

Robert E Forrester

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Economic and Social History
• During the nineteenth century Britain's maritime, commercial and colonial interests all depended upon a regular and reliable flow of seaborne informat... Lees meer

Taste, Trade and Technology

Richard Perren

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Economic and Social History
• Focusing on the interactions of producers, sellers and consumers of meat across the world, Richard Perren elucidates aspects of the evolution of the i... Lees meer

The River Pollution Dilemma in Victorian England

Leslie Rosenthal

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Economic and Social History
• Nineteenth-century Britain witnessed a dramatic increase in its urban population, as a hitherto largely rural economy transformed itself into an urban... Lees meer

Arms and the State

Marshall J Bastable

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Economic and Social History
• Arms and the State is a history of Britain's first and foremost modern armaments company, the Armstrong Whitworth Company, from its origins in 1854 to... Lees meer

Northern Identities

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Economic and Social History
• Recent years have witnessed an explosion of academic and popular interest in the issue of social identity. Yet the subject areas of regional and sub-r... Lees meer

Britain and the Economic Problem of the Cold War

Till Geiger

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Economic and Social History
• Many accounts of British development since 1945 have attempted to discover why Britain experienced slower rates of economic growth than other Western ... Lees meer

An Affluent Society?

Lawrence Black, Hugh Pemberton

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Economic and Social History
• During an election speech in 1957 the Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan, famously remarked that 'most of our people have never had it so good'. Althoug... Lees meer

Governance, Growth and Global Leadership

Espen Moe

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Economic and Social History
• This study investigates the question of what allows certain nations to rise to industrial leadership; and why some retain that pre-eminence for so muc... Lees meer

Land, Proto-Industry and Population in Catalonia, c. 1680-1829

Julie Marfany

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Economic and Social History
• This monograph makes a fresh contribution to a longstanding but far from exhausted debate concerning the transition to capitalism in Europe. The work ... Lees meer

The Popularization of Malthus in Early Nineteenth-Century England

James P Huzel

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Economic and Social History
• The political economist Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834) has gained increasing and deserved scholarly attention in recent years. As well as the repub... Lees meer

Estates, Enterprise and Investment at the Dawn of the Industrial Revolution

David Oldroyd

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Economic and Social History
• At the beginning of the eighteenth century the landed estate represented the largest and most clearly defined type of business organisation in existen... Lees meer

Economics in Russia

Joachim Zweynert

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Economic and Social History
• The history of Russian economic ideas from the sixteenth century to contemporary times is a fascinating, tumultuous yet neglected topic among Western ... Lees meer