Labor Before the Industrial Revolution

• Paperback | Engels | Perspectives in Economic and Social History
• One cannot conceive of capitalism without labor. Yet many of the current debates about economic development leading to industrialization fail to direc... Lees meer

Jewish Immigrants in London, 1880-1939

Susan L Tananbaum

• Hardcover | Engels | Perspectives in Economic and Social History
• Between 1880 and 1939, a quarter of a million European Jews settled in England. Tananbaum explores the differing ways in which the existing Anglo-Jewi... Lees meer

The Determinants of Entrepreneurship

• Hardcover | 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

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

Sex in Japan's Globalization, 1870-1930

Bill Mihalopoulos

• Hardcover | Engels | Perspectives in Economic and Social History
• Based on archival research undertaken in Japan, Britain and the United States, Mihalopoulos offers a new perspective on the relations between gender h... Lees meer

Jewish Immigrants in London, 1880-1939

Susan L Tananbaum

• Paperback | Engels | Perspectives in Economic and Social History
• Between 1880 and 1939, a quarter of a million European Jews settled in England. Tananbaum explores the differing ways in which the existing Anglo-Jewi... Lees meer

Credit and Debt in Eighteenth-Century England

Alexander Wakelam

• Hardcover | Engels | Perspectives in Economic and Social History
• Throughout the eighteenth century hundreds of thousands of men and women were cast into prison for failing to pay their debts. This apparently illogic... Lees meer

Residential Institutions in Britain, 1725-1970

Jane Hamlett

• Paperback | Engels | Perspectives in Economic and Social History
• The essays in this collection explore both organizational intentions and inhabitants' experiences in a diverse range of British residential institutio... Lees meer

Merchants and Profit in the Age of Commerce, 1680-1830

• Hardcover | Engels | Perspectives in Economic and Social History
• Merchant activity across Europe, America and China during the long eighteenth century is explored in this collection of essays. Using a unique data se... Lees meer

The Nordic Economic, Social and Political Model

• Paperback | Engels | Perspectives in Economic and Social History
• The Nordic Model is the 20th-century Scandinavian recipe for combining stable democracies, individual freedom, economic growth and comprehensive syste... 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

Philanthropy and the Funding of the Church of England, 1856-1914

Sarah Flew

• Hardcover | Engels | Perspectives in Economic and Social History
• The changing relationship between the church and its supporters is key to understanding changing religious and social attitudes in Victorian Britain. ... Lees meer

Rural-Urban Relationships in the Nineteenth Century

• Hardcover | Engels | Perspectives in Economic and Social History
• The essays in this collection seek to challenge accepted scholarship on the rural-urban divide. Using case studies from the UK, Europe and America, co... Lees meer

The World of Carolus Clusius

Florike Egmond

• Hardcover | Engels | Perspectives in Economic and Social History
• Egmond's study investigates horticultural techniques, fashions in the collection of rare plants, botanical experimentation and methods of scientific e... Lees meer

Agriculture and the Great Depression

• Hardcover | Engels | Perspectives in Economic and Social History
• What role did the agricultural sector play in the economic crash of 1929? Taking evidence from country cases across Europe and the Americas, this edit... 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

Conflict, Commerce and Franco-Scottish Relations, 1560-1713

Siobhan Talbott

• Hardcover | Engels | Perspectives in Economic and Social History
• Using untapped archival sources from Britain, France and America, Talbott presents a comparative view of British relations with France over the long s... Lees meer

Consuls and the Institutions of Global Capitalism, 1783-1914

Ferry De Goey

• Paperback | 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

Female Economic Strategies in the Modern World

• Paperback | Engels | Perspectives in Economic and Social History
• This collection of essays looks at the various ways in which women have coped financially in a male-dominated world. Chapters focus on Europe and Lati... Lees meer

Markets and Growth in Early Modern Europe

Victoria N Bateman

• Paperback | Engels | Perspectives in Economic and Social History
• This is the first study to analyze a wide spread of price data to determine whether market development led to economic growth in the early modern peri... Lees meer

Merchants and Trading in the Sixteenth Century

Jeroen Puttevils

• Paperback | Engels | Perspectives in Economic and Social History
• Sixteenth-century Europe was powered by commerce. Whilst mercantile groups from many areas prospered, those from the Low Countries were particularly s... Lees meer

Welfare and Old Age in Europe and North America

• 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

Property Rights in Land

• Paperback | Engels | Perspectives in Economic and Social History
• Property Rights in Land widens our understanding of property rights by looking through the lenses of social history and sociology, discussing mainstre... Lees meer

Drink in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

• Hardcover | Engels | Perspectives in Economic and Social History
• This collection of essays covers the representation and practice of drinking a variety of beverages across eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain ... Lees meer