Scandinavia and South America--A Tale of Two Capitalisms

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Economic History
• This book takes a comparative approach to economic history to offer ways to increase our understanding of the divergence between South America and Sca... Lees meer

Work in Early Modern Italy, 1500-1800

Luca Mocarelli, Giulio Ongaro

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Economic History
• Recent decades have seen many economic history books and articles published about working men and women, small and big entrepreneurs, guilds and state... Lees meer

Catalonia in Spain

Gabriel Tortella

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Economic History
• Explores the Catalan perspective and it's relationship with Spain from withinEngages with debate on nationalism, regionalism and European integrationA... Lees meer

The Urban Logistic Network

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Economic History
• This edited collection examines the formation of urban networks and role of gateways in Europe from the Middle Ages to the modern world. In the past, ... Lees meer

Seven Centuries of Unreal Wages

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Economic History
• The quality of life experienced by people in the past is one of the most important areas of historical enquiry, and the standard of living of populati... Lees meer

The Economies of Imperial China and Western Europe

Patrick Karl O'Brien

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Economic History
• This book is a critical interpretation of a seminal and protracted debate in comparative global economic history. Since its emergence, in now classic ... Lees meer

The Economy of South Asia

Tirthankar Roy

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Economic History
• This book explores the historical roots of rapid economic growth in South Asia, with reference to politics, markets, resources, and the world economy.... Lees meer

Twilight of an Industry in East Africa

Katharine Frederick

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Economic History
• Cotton textile industries vanished from much of East Africa during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This book investigates the underlying... Lees meer

The Modern Portuguese Economy in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

Luciano Amaral

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Economic History
• This book offers insights into the behaviour of the Portuguese economy in relation to economic growth from the twentieth century to the present. How d... Lees meer

The Portuguese Escudo Monetary Zone

Maria Eugénia Mata

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Economic History
• This monograph examines the failure of the Portuguese Escudo Monetary Zone and the birth of new monetary and financial systems in Portuguese-speaking ... Lees meer

Endogenous Growth in Historical Perspective

Ramesh Chandra

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Economic History
• In recent decades, new endogenous growth theory has become popular but the ideas are not new. They go back at least as far as Adam Smith, and the subs... Lees meer

The Creation of the East Timorese Economy

Mats Lundahl, Fredrik Sjöholm

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Economic History
• Very little has been written on the economy of East Timor since the country's independence in 2002, and no comprehensive account exists of the economi... Lees meer

The Neapolitan Creative Economy

Rossella del Prete

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Economic History
• This book analyses the emergence and growth of the creative sector in Naples between the early modern and modern eras, focusing particularly on the de... Lees meer

Capital and Colonialism

Klas Rönnbäck, Oskar Broberg

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Economic History
• This book engages in the long-standing debate on the relationship between capitalism and colonialism. Specifically, Rönnbäck and Broberg study the int... Lees meer

Freedom and Capitalism in Early Modern Europe

Philipp Robinson Rössner

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Economic History
• This book hinges upon ideas and discourses variously known under labels such as "Mercantilism" and "Cameralism". Often viewed as antithesis of capital... Lees meer

The Development of the Hotel and Tourism Industry in the Twentieth Century

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Economic History
• This edited collection explores the pivotal role of the hotel industry in building Western Europe's tourism economy during the 20th century. The book ... Lees meer

Landscape History and Rural Society in Southern England

Eric L Jones

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Economic History
• This book applies an economic and environmental perspective to the history of landscape and the rural economy, highlighting their inter-connections th... Lees meer

Freedom and Capitalism in Early Modern Europe

Philipp Robinson Rössner

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Economic History
• This book hinges upon ideas and discourses variously known under labels such as "Mercantilism" and "Cameralism". Often viewed as antithesis of capital... Lees meer

A History of Wine in Europe, 19th to 20th Centuries, Volume I

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Economic History
• This two-volume collection analyses the evolution of wine production in European regions across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. France and Ita... Lees meer

30 Years Since the Fall of the Berlin Wall

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Economic History
• The first part addresses the progress of post-communist transition in comparative terms, including regional focus on Eastern and South Eastern Europe,... Lees meer

Socialism with a Human Face

Gary B Magee, Wayne Geerling

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Economic History
• East Germany's economic history is typically told as a story of the unravelling of an inherently flawed system. Yet, while the system's inefficiency i... Lees meer

Economic Growth and Development

Lei Sun

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Economic History
• This book analyses the important role of agribusiness and rural enterprises in economic growth and development. China's inclusive development of agrib... Lees meer

Bangladesh at Fifty

Mustafa K Mujeri, Neaz Mujeri

• Hardcover | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Economic History
• This book explores the diverse experience of Bangladesh's development over the last fifty years and provides systematic explanations of its success in... Lees meer

Agricultural Development in the World Periphery

• Paperback | Engels | Palgrave Studies in Economic History
• Reviews the diverse arguments of the potential role of agriculture within the realm of development theory Analyses periphery countries in the 19th and... Lees meer