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

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

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

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

Commerce and Culture

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Economic and Social History
• Considerable attention has recently been focused on the importance of social networks and business culture in reducing transaction costs, both in the ... Lees meer

The Seaside, Health and the Environment in England and Wales Since 1800

John Hassan

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Economic and Social History
• The seaside has always held a special position in British history as a place of rest, relaxation and recuperation. Over the last 200 years many have m... 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

Insuring the Industrial Revolution

Robin Pearson

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Economic and Social History
• Fire had always been one of the greatest threats to an early modern British society that relied on the naked flame as the prime source of heating, lig... 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

An Affluent Society?

Lawrence Black, Hugh Pemberton

• Paperback | 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

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

Mining Tycoons in the Age of Empire, 1870-1945

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Economic and Social History
• The years of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, aptly described by Mark Twain as the 'Gilded Age' witnessed an unprecedented level of ... Lees meer

Arms and the State

Marshall J Bastable

• Hardcover | 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

British Conservatism and Trade Unionism, 1945-1964

Peter Dorey

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Economic and Social History
• For most of the twentieth century, the Conservative Party engaged in an ongoing struggle to curb the power of the trade unions, culminating in the rad... Lees meer

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

A Decent Provision

John Murphy

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Economic and Social History
• A Decent Provision is a narrative history of how and why Australia built a distinctive welfare regime in the period from the 1870s to 1949. At the beg... 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

Raleigh and the British Bicycle Industry

Roger Lloyd-Jones, M J Lewis

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Economic and Social History
• This book is the first comprehensive history of the development of the British bicycle industry from the perspective of business and economic history.... Lees meer

The International Order of Asia in the 1930s and 1950s

Nicholas J White

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Economic and Social History
• This book reconsiders the nature and formation of Asia's economic order during the 1930s and 1950s in light of the new historiographical developments ... Lees meer

Demons of Domesticity

Anne Clendinning

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Economic and Social History
• Women first found employment with the English gas industry, not as clerical workers, but as professional demonstrators and publicists. Nicknamed 'lady... Lees meer

The Skilled Compositor, 1850-1914

Patrick Duffy

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Economic and Social History
• For the first time since its invention over 500 years ago, the print medium is being challenged as the primary means of recording and communicating id... 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

Mining Tycoons in the Age of Empire, 1870-1945

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Economic and Social History
• The years of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, aptly described by Mark Twain as the 'Gilded Age' witnessed an unprecedented level of ... Lees meer

Across the Borders

Günter Dinhobl

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Economic and Social History
• Until now we have only had relatively narrow economic studies comparing investments in railways with investments in other fields of individual economi... Lees meer