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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The Birth of the Western Economy: Economic Aspects of the Dark Ages
1st Edition
By Robert Latouche
February 13, 2013
First Published in 2005. The Carolingian Empire, short-lived as it was, is the central feature of those centuries of European history which are usefully if now somewhat unfashionably known as the Dark Ages. This book looks at complexity and diversity of economic conditions and economic aspects of...
The Reconstruction of Western Europe 1945-1951
1st Edition
By Alan S. Milward
October 29, 2012
First Published in 2005. The remarkable success and duration of the economic and political reconstruction of Western Europe after the Second World War have exercised a generation of historians. Few could have predicted, in 1945, that the shattered nations of Western Europe were on the brink of one ...
An Economic History of Western Europe 1945-1964
1st Edition
By M.M Postan
July 26, 2012
This book includes the economic history of some of Western Europe with a focus on the United Kingdom, Germany and France from 1945 to a few years before original date of publishing in 1967....
Social Change in the Industrial Revolution: An Application of Theory to the British Cotton Industry
1st Edition
By Neil J. Smelser
June 21, 2012
First Published in 2005. The following study analyses several sequences of differentiation and a attempt to apply social theory to history. Such an analysis naturally calls for two components: (1) a segment of social theory; and (2) an empirical instance of change. For the first the author has ...
Economy and Society in Early Modern Europe: Essays from Annales
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Burke
December 09, 2011
In 1929 two French historians, Lucien Febvre and Marc Bloch, founded Annales, a historical journal which rapidly became one of the most influential in the world. They believed that economic history, social history and the history of ideas were as important as political history, and that historians ...
History of the Trade Between the United Kingdom and the United States: With Special Reference to the Effects of Tarriffs
1st Edition
By Sydney J. Chapman
December 09, 2011
First published in 1899, this book looks at the history of Anglo-American trade with a special focus on the effect of tariffs and forms part of the essay that won the Cobden Prize at Cambridge in 1898....
Introduction to the Economic History of China
1st Edition
By Stuart Kirby
December 09, 2011
First Published in 2005. The following pages provide an extensive introduction to the study of the Economic History of China, together with a carefully selected bibliography of some 800 books and articles. The text is intended to define, in the first place, the nature and importance of the subject,...
Science and Industry in the Nineteenth Century
1st Edition
By J.D. Bernal
December 09, 2011
Published in 2005, Science and Industry in the Nineteenth Century is a valuable contribution to the field of Economic History....
Economic History of Transport in Britain
1st Edition
By Christopher Savage, T.C. Barker
September 12, 2011
Published in 2005, Economic History of Transport Britain is a valuable contribution to the field of Economic History....
Short History of Economic Progress: A Course in Economic History
1st Edition
By Y.S. Brenner
September 12, 2011
Y. S. Brenner is an economist whose main concern is with development, and this attitude is reflected in his approach to economic history. He begins this seminal study in the era of the Reformation in Europe, and bases it on the hypothesis that once started, economic progress will spread over ...
The Development of Japanese Business: 1600-1973
1st Edition
By Johannes Hirschmeier, Tusenehiko Yui
March 11, 2011
First Published in 2005. This book has been written as an outline history of the development of Japanese business. A good deal of literature exists on some aspects, and some periods, but this is the first attempt to follow the entire course from the Tokugawa period to the present, and to analyse ...
The Economic Decline of Empires
1st Edition
Edited
By Carlo M. Cipolla
February 09, 2011
The question of why empires decline and fall has attracted the attention of historians for centuries, but remains fundamentally unsolved. This unique collection is concerned with the purely economic aspects of decline. It can be observed of empires in the process of decline that their economies are...