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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An Economic History of Europe 1760-1930
1st Edition
By a. Birnie
November 09, 2010
A history of the rise of industrialism in modern Europe, containing a description of the revolutionary changes which transformed industry, commerce and agriculture at the beginning of the last century, with an account of their reactions on the political and economic condition of the chief European ...
Economic Growth in Japan and the USSR
1st Edition
By Angus Maddison
November 08, 2010
In terms of output, the USSR and Japan account for one-fifth of the world's economy, occupying second and third places behind the United States. Japan has the world's fastest growth of per capita income and the USSR has not lagged far behind. But a century ago they were static feudal societies. ...
An Economic History of the Middle East and North Africa
1st Edition
By Charles Issawi
November 03, 2010
The economic history of the Middle East and North Africa is quite extraordinary. This is an axiomatic statement, but the very nature of the economic changes that have stemmed directly from the effects of oil resources in these areas has tended to obscure longterm patterns of economic change and ...
An Introduction to Quantitative Methods for Historians
1st Edition
By Roderick Floud
November 03, 2010
Many statements made by historians are quantitative statements, involving the use of measurable historical evidence. The historian who uses quantitative methods to analyse and interpret such information needs to be well acquainted with the particular methods and techniques of analysis and to be ...
Economic Progress and Policy in Developing Countries
1st Edition
By Angus Maddison
November 03, 2010
First published in 2005. The central issue of our times is the unequal income of nations. Its importance outweighs most of the domestic problems in rich countries, and the division of the world into rich and poor has become more significant than the ideological cleavage between communism and ...
The Economic and Social Foundations of European Civilization
1st Edition
By Alfons Dopsch
November 03, 2010
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally ...
The Postwar International Money Crisis: An Analysis
1st Edition
By Victor Argy
November 03, 2010
First Published in 2005. The book has two principal aims. First, to provide a description of the major international monetary developments in the industrial world in the post-war years. Second, to evaluate and analyse these developments by reference to a theoretical framework and, in addition, to ...
The Rise of Merchant Banking
1st Edition
By Stanley Chapman
November 03, 2010
This is the first serious history of merchant banking, based on the archives of the leading houses and the records of their activities throughout the world. It combines scholarly insight with readability, and offers a totally new assessment of the origins of one of the most dynamic sectors of the ...
The Rise of the Corporate Economy
1st Edition
By Leslie Hannah
November 03, 2010
First published in 1976, this much acclaimed book looks at the story of how today's large corporations have superseded the small competing firms of the nineteenth century. The long-run analysis confirms that the crucial periods in the formulation of the modern corporate system were the 1920's and ...
Why Ireland Starved: A Quantitative and Analytical History of the Irish Economy, 1800-1850
1st Edition
By Joel Mokyr
November 03, 2010
Technical changes in the first half of the nineteenth century led to unprecedented economic growth and capital formation throughout Western Europe; and yet Ireland hardly participated in this process at all. While the Northern Atlantic Economy prospered, the Great Irish Famine of 1845–50 killed a ...
A Monetary History of the United Kingdom: 1870-1982
1st Edition
By Forrest Capie, Alan Webber
November 02, 2010
This book is the culmination of a major research programme on the monetary history of the United Kingdom. This volume contains monetary series ranging from detailed balance sheet material to monetary aggregates such as M3 and are in monthly, quarterly and annual form. The data are drawn ...
Class Structure and Economic Growth: India and Pakistan Since the Moghuls
1st Edition
By Angus Maddison
November 02, 2010
This book was first published in 1971....