The First Century of Welfare

Jonathan Healey

• Paperback | Engels | People, Markets, Goods: Economies and Societies in History | nr. 4
• The first major regional study of poverty and its relief in the seventeenth century: the first century of welfare. The English 'Old Poor Law' was the ... Lees meer

Family Firms in Postwar Britain and Germany

David Paulson

• Paperback | Engels | People, Markets, Goods: Economies and Societies in History | nr. 20
• Examines the culture and conduct of six small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in England and West Germany from 1945 to the late-1970s, drawing on ... Lees meer

Globalized Peripheries

• Paperback | Engels | People, Markets, Goods: Economies and Societies in History | nr. 16
• Globalized Peripheries examines the commodity flows and financial ties within Central and Eastern Europe in order to situate these regions as importan... Lees meer

Servants in Rural Europe

• Paperback | Engels | People, Markets, Goods: Economies and Societies in History | nr. 11
• This is the first book to survey the experience of servants in rural Europe from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century. This is the first book to su... Lees meer

Cameralism in Practice

• Paperback | Engels | People, Markets, Goods: Economies and Societies in History | nr. 10
• The first book that acknowledges cameralism as a European rather than just a German historical phenomenon. This book discusses the impact of cameralis... Lees meer

Population, Welfare and Economic Change in Britain, 1290-1834

• Paperback | Engels | People, Markets, Goods: Economies and Societies in History | nr. 5
• Presents the latest research on the causes and consequences of British population change from the medieval period to the eve of the Industrial Revolut... Lees meer

Labour Laws in Preindustrial Europe

• Paperback | Engels | People, Markets, Goods: Economies and Societies in History | nr. 21
• Explores the variety of legal and regulatory regimes that existed in Western Europe to control labour and how workers experienced those controls. Many... Lees meer

Publishing Business in Eighteenth-Century England

James Raven

• Paperback | Engels | People, Markets, Goods: Economies and Societies in History | nr. 3
• Publishing Business assesses the contribution of the business press and the publication of print to the economic transformation of England in the long... Lees meer

The Great Famine in Ireland and Britain's Financial Crisis

Charles Read

• Paperback | Engels | People, Markets, Goods: Economies and Societies in History | nr. 19
• Rich in archival detail and offering a ground-breaking analysis, this book presents a radically new interpretation of British politics and policy fail... Lees meer

Almshouses in Early Modern England

Angela Nicholls

• Paperback | Engels | People, Markets, Goods: Economies and Societies in History | nr. 8
• Addresses a neglected element of English welfare history, examining the role and significance of English almshouses in the period 1550 - 1725 and the ... Lees meer

Women and the Land, 1500-1900

• Paperback | Engels | People, Markets, Goods: Economies and Societies in History | nr. 15
• Women and the Land examines English women's legal rights to land and the reality and consequences of their land ownership over four centuries. Women a... Lees meer

Landlords and Tenants in Britain, 1440-1660

• Paperback | Engels | People, Markets, Goods: Economies and Societies in History | nr. 1
• Provides for a new interpretation of the agrarian economy in late Tudor and early modern Britain. This volume revisits a classic book by a famous hist... Lees meer

Crises in Economic and Social History

• Paperback | Engels | People, Markets, Goods: Economies and Societies in History | nr. 6
• Exploring how crises have shaped economic and social life from the thirteenth century to the twenty-first. This collection of essays brings together h... Lees meer

Slavery Hinterland

• Paperback | Engels | People, Markets, Goods: Economies and Societies in History | nr. 7
• Contributors from the US, Britain and Europe explore a neglected aspect of transatlantic slavery: the implication of a continental European hinterland... Lees meer

Quakers in the British Atlantic World, C.1660-1800

Esther Sahle

• Paperback | Engels | People, Markets, Goods: Economies and Societies in History | nr. 18
• Examines the two largest Quaker communities in the early modern British Atlantic World, and scrutinizes the role of Quaker merchants and the business ... Lees meer

The Age of Machinery

Gillian Cookson

• Paperback | Engels | People, Markets, Goods: Economies and Societies in History | nr. 12
• An engagingly written account of textile engineering in its key northern centres, rich with historical narrative and analysis. The engineers who built... Lees meer

Financing Cotton

Steven Toms

• Paperback | Engels | People, Markets, Goods: Economies and Societies in History | nr. 17
• This book links the world of finance directly to the fate of the cotton and textile industry, long a metaphor for the rise and fall of Britain as a ma... Lees meer

Money and Markets

• Paperback | Engels | People, Markets, Goods: Economies and Societies in History | nr. 14
• This book explores the changing boundaries and relationships between market and state from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. Money and Markets... Lees meer

People, Places and Business Cultures

• Paperback | Engels | People, Markets, Goods: Economies and Societies in History | nr. 9
• Inspired by the work and legacy of Francesca Carnevali, this collection brings together new research into nineteenth- and twentieth-century British an... Lees meer

Shoplifting in Eighteenth-Century England

Shelley Tickell

• Paperback | Engels | People, Markets, Goods: Economies and Societies in History | nr. 13
• As a new consumer culture took root in eighteenth-century England and shops proliferated, the crime of shoplifting leaped to public prominence. Shopli... Lees meer