Economic History
About the Book Series
Routledge Library Editions: Economic History reprints some of the most important works on economic history published in the last century.
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Finance Capital: A study in the latest phase of capitalist development
1st Edition
By Rudolph Hilferding
July 24, 2019
This is the first English translation of one of the classical works of Marxist economic theory. When Rudolf Hilferding’s Finance Capital was first published in 1919 it was acclaimed by reviewers as a continuation of Marx’s Capital, and it has a major influence upon subsequent Marxist thought, ...
A Financial History of Western Europe
1st Edition
By Charles P. Kindleberger
November 16, 2018
This is the first history of finance - broadly defined to include money, banking, capital markets, public and private finance, international transfers etc. - that covers Western Europe (with an occasional glance at the western hemisphere) and half a millennium. Charles Kindleberger highlights the...
The Scientific and Industrial Revolution of Time
1st Edition
By M.E. Beggs Humpreys, D.W. Humphreys
October 12, 2015
An earlier book in this series told the story of the Industrial Revolution which took place between the years 1760 and i860. It was a revolution resulting from the introduction of a new form of power—steam power. This text looks at another industrial revolution which has taken place in the hundred...
A Short History of the World's Shipping Industry
1st Edition
By C. Ernest Fayle
July 16, 2015
This book outlines the story of shipping as a business and describes the way in which, at each period of the world's history, merchant ships were owned and operated. It provides information on the relations between ship-owners and governments, and the conditions of life and work afloat....
Keynesianism vs. Monetarism: And other essays in financial history
1st Edition
Edited
By Charles P. Kindleberger
July 16, 2015
This book was first published in 1985....
The Trade Winds: A Study of British Overseas Trade During the French Wars 1793-1815
1st Edition
Edited
By C.Northcote Parkinson
June 08, 2015
First Published in 2005. The authors of this book have tried to portray, in outline, the background of trade against which the Navy of Nelson's time had to operate. The Tarde Winds is the title they have chosen and the book should serve to remind us of many physical facts which then dominated the ...
Wool Trade in Tudor and Stuart England
1st Edition
By Peter J. Bowden
June 08, 2015
This book was first published in 1962. Until the era of the Industrial Revolution wool was, without question, the most important raw material in the English economic system. The staple article of the country's export trade in the Middle Ages, it remained until the nineteenth century the ...
American Business Cycles 1945-50
1st Edition
By Conrad Blyth
May 21, 2015
After the end of the Second World War businessmen and economists throughout the world feared that the American postwar inflationary boom would end in a serious slump. The slump took a long time to come, and when it did appear in 1949 it was both mild and short lived. In its mildness and brevity it ...
An Economic History of the United States Since 1783
1st Edition
By Francis G. Walett
May 21, 2015
First Published in 2005. This is Volume two of a series on the Economic History of the USA. This book provides a summary of the phases of economic growth. It presents in succinct form and in the most common organization the essential facts about the economic development of the American people. ...
Roots of American Economic Growth 1607-1861: An Essay on Social Causation
1st Edition
By Stuart Bruchey
May 21, 2015
First Published in 2005. In this book, the author seeks to apply a self-described broad approach to American economic growth and to place the process within the mainstream of American history. This approach establishes that economic growth involves far more than economics; most students of growth ...
The American Economy 1860-1940
1st Edition
By A.J. Youngson Brown
May 21, 2015
First Published in 2005. This study looks at the economic history of the United States, taking in such areas as the developing population of America, the impact of the railroads and expansion of industry and Government from 1760 to 1940. It charts the progress, decline and stabilisation of the ...
The Industrial Revolution
1st Edition
By Mary Beggs-Humphreys
May 21, 2015
Between the mid-eighteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries Great Britain changed from a mainly agricultural country into a mainly industrial one. Because the change came about so quickly we can indeed describe it as a revolution. This period of a hundred years might well be called 'the age of steam ...