Nation, State and the Industrial Revolution

Lars Magnusson

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Explorations in Economic History | nr. 45
• The industrial revolution and the creation of the modern (national) state are two of the most important historical processes to have occurred in Europ... Lees meer

Ireland and the Industrial Revolution

Andy (University College Cork, Ireland) Bielenberg

• Hardcover | Routledge Explorations in Economic History
• This multi-disciplinary monograph provides the first comprehensive analysis of industrial development in Ireland and its impact on Irish society betwe... Lees meer

Production Efficiency in Domesday England, 1086

John McDonald

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Explorations in Economic History | nr. 7
• This fascinating study uses Domesday book data and Management Science methods to examine manorial production efficiency in Medieval Essex in 1086. Thi... Lees meer

The Political Economy of Disaster

Mats Lundahl

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Explorations in Economic History | nr. 61
• Haiti, one of the least developed and most vulnerable nations in the Western Hemisphere, made the international headlines in January 2010 when an eart... Lees meer

The History of Migration in Europe

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Explorations in Economic History
• The History of Migration in Europe belies several myths by arguing, for example, that immobility has not been the "normal" condition of people before ... Lees meer

War, Power and the Economy

A González Enciso

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Explorations in Economic History
• War, Power and the Economy contains a comparative history of Great Britain, France and Spain, the three rival empires of the 1700s. It explores how th... Lees meer

The Economy of Classical Athens

Emmanouil M L Economou

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Explorations in Economic History
• In parallel to the development of democracy, the Athenians of the Classical period established a series of sophisticated economic institutions for the... Lees meer

Innovation and Technological Diffusion

Harry Kitsikopoulos

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Explorations in Economic History
• This book deals with two key aspects of the history of steam engines, a cornerstone of the Industrial Revolution, specifically the road that led to it... Lees meer

The Role of Banks in Monitoring Firms

Elisabeth Paulet

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Explorations in Economic History
• This book addresses issues in the current literature on corporate finance using historical evidence. In particular it looks at the role of universal b... Lees meer

An Economic History of London 1800-1914

Professor Michael Ball, David T Sunderland

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Explorations in Economic History
• In 1800 London was already the largest city in the world, and over the course of the next century its population grew rapidly, reaching over seven mil... Lees meer

The Rise of Planning in Industrial America, 1865-1914

Richard Adelstein

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Explorations in Economic History
• Central economic planning is often associated with failed state socialism, and modern capitalism celebrated as its antithesis. This book shows that ce... Lees meer

Ideas and Economic Crises in Britain from Attlee to Blair (1945-2005)

Matthias M Matthijs

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Explorations in Economic History | nr. 49
• During the period from 1945 to 2005, Britain underwent two deep-seated institutional transformations when political elites successfully challenged the... Lees meer

Political Competition and Economic Regulation

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Explorations in Economic History
• Organized, readable, technically sound and comprehensive from both theoretical and empirical standpoints, this book summarizes a vast amount of instit... Lees meer

Bengal Industries and the British Industrial Revolution (1757-1857)

Indrajit Ray

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Explorations in Economic History
• This book seeks to enlighten two grey areas of industrial historiography. Although Bengal industries were globally dominant on the eve of the industri... Lees meer

The Foreign Exchange Market of London

John Atkin

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Explorations in Economic History | nr. 27
• Foreign Exchange is big business in the City of London. At the last official count, turnover on the London foreign exchange market averaged a staggeri... Lees meer

Paper and the British Empire

Timo Särkkä

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Explorations in Economic History
• Paper and the British Empire examines the evolution of the paper industry within British organisational frameworks and highlights the role of the Empi... Lees meer

Production and Consumption in English Households 1600-1750

Darron Dean, Andrew Hann, Mark Overton, Jane Whittle

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Explorations in Economic History
• This economic, social and cultural analysis of the nature and variety of production and consumption activities in households in Kent and Cornwall yiel... Lees meer

European Banks and the Rise of International Finance

Carlo Edoardo Altamura

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Explorations in Economic History
• The banking and financial sector has expanded dramatically in the last forty years, and the consequences of this accelerated growth have been felt by ... Lees meer

The Political Economy of Mercantilism

Lars Magnusson

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Explorations in Economic History
• Since the days of Adam Smith, Mercantilism has been a hotly debated issue. Condemned at the end of the 18th century as a "false" system of economic th... Lees meer

The Role of Banks in Monitoring Firms

Elisabeth Paulet

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Explorations in Economic History
• This book is a timely examination of banks and corporate finance. It addresses such issues as credit constraints, the supervisions of managers and the... Lees meer

An Economic History of Modern Sweden

Lennart Schön

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Explorations in Economic History
• The book is based on a rich and detailed quantitative material from research over the past decades with consecutive time series over production volume... Lees meer

Industrial Development in Postwar Japan

Hirohisa Kohama

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Explorations in Economic History
• Structured into sub-sector by sub-sector analyses, this book provides a clear and accessible examination of industrial development, without over-gener... Lees meer

Inequality and Nutritional Transition in Economic History

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Explorations in Economic History
• Food consumption and nutrition are historically among the most characteristic features of inequality in living standards driven by socioeconomic, gend... Lees meer

Europe's Green Revolution and Its Successors

Jonathan Harwood

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Explorations in Economic History
• How best to foster agricultural development in the Third World has long been a subject of debate and from a European perspective the persistent failur... Lees meer