A Global Conceptual History of Asia, 1860-1940

Hagen Schulz-Forberg

• Hardcover | Engels | Perspectives in Economic and Social History
• Contributors to this volume explore the changing concepts of the social and the economic during a period of fundamental change across Asia. They chall... Lees meer

Global Trade and Commercial Networks

Tijl Vanneste

• Paperback | Engels | Perspectives in Economic and Social History
• At the heart of this study on cross-cultural trade lies a concrete case-study of a network of diamond merchants operating in the early eighteenth cent... Lees meer

Workers, Unions and Payment in Kind

Christopher Frank

• Paperback | Engels | Perspectives in Economic and Social History
• Despite the dramatic expansion of consumer culture from the beginning of the eighteenth century onwards and the developments in retailing, advertising... Lees meer

Meat, Commerce and the City

Robyn S Metcalfe

• Paperback | Engels | Perspectives in Economic and Social History
• This study examines the struggle between Smithfield market's supporters and detractors and argues that this demonstrates a major shift in the way the ... Lees meer

Mining and the State in Brazilian Development

Gail D Triner

• Paperback | Engels | Perspectives in Economic and Social History
• 'Mining and the State' examines the fundamental economic institutional structure of Brazil through the prism of its mineral endowment. Lees meer

Merchant Communities in Asia, 1600-1980

Madeleine Zelin

• Hardcover | Engels | Perspectives in Economic and Social History
• This book is the first to use local primary sources to explore the interaction between foreign and native merchants in Asian countries. Contributors d... Lees meer

Merchant Colonies in the Early Modern Period

Victor N Zakharov

• Hardcover | Engels | Perspectives in Economic and Social History
• Merchant colonies were a significant factor for economic growth in Europe during the early modern period. The essays in this collection look at mercha... Lees meer

A History of Professional Economists and Policymaking in the United States

Jonathan S Franklin

• Hardcover | Engels | Perspectives in Economic and Social History
• Over the course of the twentieth century, professional economists have become a feature in the policymaking process and have slowly changed the way we... Lees meer

Respectability and the London Poor, 1780-1870

Lynn MacKay

• Paperback | Engels | Perspectives in Economic and Social History
• The population of London soared during the Industrial Revolution and the poorer areas became iconic places of overcrowding and vice. Focusing on the c... Lees meer

Female Entrepreneurs in Nineteenth-Century Russia

Galina Ulianova

• Hardcover | Engels | Perspectives in Economic and Social History
• This pioneering work comprehensively examines the history of female entrepreneurship in the Russian Empire during nineteenth-century industrial develo... Lees meer

Consuls and the Institutions of Global Capitalism, 1783-1914

Ferry De Goey

• Hardcover | Engels | Perspectives in Economic and Social History
• The nineteenth century saw the expansion of Western influence across the globe. A consular presence in a new territory had numerous advantages for bus... Lees meer

Early Modern Overseas Trade and Entrepreneurship

Kaarle Wirta

• Paperback | Engels | Perspectives in Economic and Social History
• Drawing on an impressive range of archival material, this monograph delves into the careers of two businessmen who worked for Nordic chartered monopol... Lees meer

Development Economics in the Twenty-First Century

• Paperback | Engels | Perspectives in Economic and Social History
• Development Economics has been identified as a homogeneous body of theory since the 1950s, concerned both with the study of development issues and wit... Lees meer

Welfare and Old Age in Europe and North America

Bernard Harris

• Paperback | Engels | Perspectives in Economic and Social History
• Over the last twenty years, historians have become increasingly interested in the role of non-state organizations in the development of welfare servic... Lees meer

Prostitution and Social Control in Eighteenth-Century Ports

Marion Pluskota

• Paperback | Engels | Perspectives in Economic and Social History
• In the last third of the eighteenth-century, Bristol and Nantes were two of the most active commercial ports of England and France, despite a slowdown... Lees meer

The Economic and Business History of Occupied Japan

• Hardcover | Engels | Perspectives in Economic and Social History
• The Occupation era (1945-1952) witnessed major change in Japan and the beginnings of its growth from of the ashes of defeat towards its status as a de... Lees meer

Mining and the State in Brazilian Development

Gail D Triner

• Hardcover | Engels | Perspectives in Economic and Social History
• 'Mining and the State' examines the fundamental economic institutional structure of Brazil through the prism of its mineral endowment. Lees meer

English Catholics and the Education of the Poor, 1847-1902

Eric G Tenbus

• Hardcover | Engels | Perspectives in Economic and Social History
• Filling an important gap in the historiography of Victorian Britain, this book examines the English Catholic Church's efforts during the second half o... Lees meer

Franco Modigliani and Keynesian Economics

Antonella Rancan

• Hardcover | Engels | Perspectives in Economic and Social History
• This book follows the intellectual path of Franco Modigliani, Nobel Prize winner and one of the most influential Keynesian economists of the twentieth... Lees meer

North Eurasian Trade in World History, 1660-1860

Werner Scheltjens

• Hardcover | Engels | Perspectives in Economic and Social History
• This book offers the first long-term analysis of the protracted struggle between Britain, France, Prussia, Russia, and Sweden for economic power and p... Lees meer

Crime and Community in Reformation Scotland

J R D Falconer

• Paperback | Engels | Perspectives in Economic and Social History
• Based on church and state records from the burgh of Aberdeen, this study explores the deeper social meaning behind petty crime during the Reformation.... Lees meer

Merchants and Trade Networks in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, 1550-1800

• Paperback | Engels | Perspectives in Economic and Social History
• This collective volume explores the ways merchants managed to connect different spaces all over the globe in the early modern period by organizing the... Lees meer

A History of Professional Economists and Policymaking in the United States

Jonathan S Franklin

• Paperback | Engels | Perspectives in Economic and Social History
• Over the course of the twentieth century, professional economists have become a feature in the policymaking process and have slowly changed the way we... Lees meer

The Determinants of Entrepreneurship

• Paperback | Engels | Perspectives in Economic and Social History
• This study looks at entrepreneurial history from three angles: Entrepreneurial Typologies; Business Leaders; and Culture vs Institutions. The previous... Lees meer