Economic History category: 3271 books
Economic Origins of Jeffersonian Democracy
How Hamilton's Merchant Class Lost Out to the Agrarian South
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2017
The sequel to the bestselling An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution, this volume focuses on the nation's early political history from the adoption of the Constitution through the end of the Jefferson administration. This period saw the rise and triumph of Jefferson's agrarian, slave-holding...
Capital and Steam Power
1750-1800
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
When it appeared in 1923, John Lord’s Capital and Steam Power 1750–1800 was the first book to be based on the voluminous Boultori and Watt papers in Birmingham since the hey-day of Samuel Smiles.
Although Lord’s conclusions have been modified and corrected on various points, this book...
Aspects of British Economic History
1918-1925
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Covering the period from November 1918 to the restoration of the Gold Standard in the UK in April 1925, this book, originally published in 1947, sets out and explains the economic facts of the immediate post-war period. There are sections on employment, production, government intervention in industry,...
Modern New York
The Life and Economics of a City
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
The economic history of New York is filled with high-stakes drama and big figures. In Modern New York, renowned economist and political commentator Greg David tells the story of the metropolis's financial highs and lows since the 1960s. He takes a hard look at how Wall Street came to dominate the...
by Robert B. Ekelund Jr., Robert D. Tollison
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
In the global marketplace of ideas, few realms spark as much conflict as religion. For millions of people, it is an integral part of everyday life, reflected by a widely divergent supply of practices and philosophical perspectives. Yet, historically, the marketplace has not always been competitive....
by Barrington Moore Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Barrington Moore, Jr., one of the most distinguished thinkers in critical theory and historical sociology, was long concerned with the prospects for freedom and decency in industrial society. The product of decades of reflection on issues of authority, inequality, and injustice, this volume analyzes...
Economic Studies (Routledge Revivals)
Contributions to the Critique of Economic Theory
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
First published in 1977, David Levine's Economic Studies offers a critique and reconstruction of the theoretical conception of economic life. The premise of the study is that only an investigation of the system of elementary economic relations - value, capital, production - can overcome the confusion...
Mexico’s Merchant Elite, 1590–1660
Silver, State, and Society
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Combining social, political, and economic history, Louisa Schell Hoberman examines a neglected period in Mexico’s colonial past, providing the first book-length study of the period’s merchant elite and its impact on the evolution of Mexico.
Through extensive archival research, Hoberman brings...
Empire and Commerce in Africa
A Study in Economic Imperialism
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
In this title, originally published in 1920, Leonard Woolf traces the history of economic imperialism and explores the relations of Europe and Africa since 1876. This analysis of economic imperialism helped to shape attitudes to colonialism for more than one generation of radicals and socialists, and still has the power to influence and inform today.
The Scourge of Europe (Routledge Revivals)
The Public Debt Described, Explained, and Historically Depicted
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Written during the early 1920s, at a time when Europe was still recovering from the catastrophe of the First World War, L.V. Birck’s The Scourge of Europe examines the economic issues surrounding the existence of public debt, its history, and possible approaches to problems associated with public...
Bureaucrats, Planters, and Workers
The Making of the Tobacco Monopoly in Bourbon Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
A government monopoly provides an excellent case study of state-society relationships. This is especially true of the tobacco monopoly in colonial Mexico, whose revenues in the later half of the eighteenth century were second only to the silver tithe as the most valuable source of government income....
The Political Economy of Disaster
Destitution, Plunder and Earthquake in Haiti
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Haiti, one of the least developed and most vulnerable nations in the Western Hemisphere, made the international headlines in January 2010 when an earthquake destroyed the capital, Port-au-Prince. More than a year later, little reconstruction has taken place, in spite of a strong international funding...
by Jack Rasmus
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
The US in 1913 was one of the last major economies to establish an institution of a central bank. The book examines, however, the history and evolution of central banking in the US from the perspective of central banking functions—i.e. aggregator of private lending to the federal government, fiscal...
Labor Before the Industrial Revolution
Work, Technology and their Ecologies in an Age of Early Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2018
One cannot conceive of capitalism without labor. Yet many of the current debates about economic development leading to industrialization fail to directly engage with labor at all. This collection of essays strives to correct this oversight and to reintroduce labor into the great debates about capitalist...