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 Study of Economic History: Collected Inaugural Lectures 1893-1970
1st Edition
By N.B. Harte
May 21, 2015
First Published in 2005. This volume collects together the twenty-one inaugural lectures in economic history, eighteen of them delivered by professors of the subject in British universities between 1929 and 1970. To these, three earlier lectures have been appropriately added....
Victorian Working Women: An historical and literary study of women in British industries and professions 1832-1850
1st Edition
By Wanda F. Neff
May 21, 2015
This book was first published in 1929. The working woman was not, a Victorian institution. The word spinster disproves any upstart origin for the sisterhood of toil. Nor was she as a literary figure the discovery of Victorian witers in search of fresh material. Chaucer included unmemorable working ...
Economic and Social Change in a Midland Town: Victorian Nottingham 1815-1900
1st Edition
By Roy A. Church
April 09, 2015
This book was first published in 1966. The city of Nottingham grew from the nucleus of a smaller and older town to become one of the nation's leading industrial centres, and although it was not a product of the industrial revolution Nottingham was completely transformed by it. For most of the...
Foreign Finance in Continental Europe and the United States 1815-1870: Quantities, Origins, Functions and Distribution
1st Edition
By D.C.M. Platt
April 09, 2015
First Published in 2005. This study uses the Baring archive to provide a professional and contemporary understanding of the foreign financial history of Continental Europe and the United States from the years 1815 to 1870. The material gathered in this book, for France, Russia, Austria, Spain and ...
Health, Wealth and Population in the Early Days of the Industrial Revolution
1st Edition
By M.C. Buer
April 09, 2015
First Published in 2005.It is the primary object of this study to endeavour to elucidate the main causes of the rapid growth of population in England in the 18th and early 19th centuries, with special reference to the period 1750–1815. This enquiry is narrow in time and place but deals with the ...
Industrial South Wales 1750-1914: Essays in Welsh Economic History
1st Edition
Edited
By W.E Minchinton
April 09, 2015
South Wales was one of the main centres of the Industrial Revolution in Britain but the story of the rapid growth of an industrial society there has not yet been fully told, since much of the work done has consisted of articles rather than books. This volume brings together a selection of important...
J.C. Fischer and his Diary of Industrial England: 1814-51
1st Edition
By W.O. Henderson
April 09, 2015
This book was first published in 1966. It was surprising that so small and so remote a country as Switzerland should have played such an important part in the industrial revolution on the Continent in the nineteenth century. A lack of natural resources and basic raw materials and population of ...
The Irish Pound, 1797-1826: A Reprint of the Report of the Committee of 1804 of the House of Commons on the Condition of the Irish Currency
1st Edition
Edited
By Frank W. Fetter
April 09, 2015
First Published in 2005. The Irish Report is a scarce document, known to comparatively few economists. This reprint of the Report and of portions of the Minutes of Evidence, set against the historical background, will not only be of interest to the student of monetary theory and of monetary history...
Commercial Federation & Colonial Trade Policy
1st Edition
By John Davidson
March 31, 2015
First Published in 2005.This text starts to look at England's Commercial Policy towards her Colonies since the Treaty of Paris and then moves forward to cover Commercial policy, federation, the Empire and Trade....
Commercial Relations of England and Portugal
1st Edition
By A.B.W. Chapman, V.M. Shillinton
March 31, 2015
First Published in 2005. This book looks at the commercial relations between England and Portugal during the mediaeval period, including merchant trading. Due to the relations between Prince Henry the Navigator, and Vasco da Gama, the Anglo - Portuguese alliance, of which the origins can be traced ...
International Competition and Strategic Response in the Textile Industries SInce 1870
1st Edition
Edited
By Mary B. Rose
March 31, 2015
This book of essays, which draws on the expertise of leading textile scholars in Britain and the United States, focuses on the problem of and responses to foreign competition in textiles from the late nineteenth century to the present day. A short introductory essay by the editor is followed by a ...
Problems of British Economic Policy, 1870-1945
1st Edition
By Jim Tomlinson
March 31, 2015
Most historical accounts of economic policy set out to describe the way in which governments have attempted to solve their economic problems and to achieve their economic objectives. Jim Tomlinson, however, focuses on the problems themselves, arguing that the way in which areas of economic policy ...