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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A History of Industrial Life Assurance
1st Edition
By D. Morrah
February 05, 2015
First Published in 2005. This book is an attempt by a layman to explain to other laymen the purposes and processes of industrial assurance, an institution which exercises a far-reaching influence upon the life of the community, and in which for that reason the community, through its political ...
A Social and Economic History of Medieval Europe
1st Edition
By Gerald A. Hodgett
February 05, 2015
This excellent and concise summary of the social and economic history of Europe in the Middle Ages examines the changing patterns and developments in agriculture, commerce, trade, industry and transport that took place during the millennium between the fall of the Roman Empire and the discovery of ...
African Slave Trade and Its Suppression: A Classified and Annotated Bibliography of Books, Pamphlets and Periodical Articles
1st Edition
By Peter C. Hogg
February 05, 2015
First Published in 2005. The task of compiling a bibliography of the African slave trade is a difficult one as the literature comprises books, pamphlets and periodical articles in a variety of languages from the sixteenth century to the present day. This title aspires to present a representative ...
Agrarian Change and Economic Development: The Historical Problems
1st Edition
Edited
By E.L. Jones, S.J. Woolf
February 05, 2015
Agrarian Change and Economic Development is a landmark volume that examines the historical experience of the relationship between agrarian change and economic development. Because agriculture was until recently man's dominant occupation, scholars have traditionally drawn little attention to its ...
Agrarian Problems in the Sixteenth Century and After
1st Edition
By Eric Kerridge
February 05, 2015
Presenting a full and precise description of all legal ties between landlord and tenant in early modern England, Agrarian Problems in the Sixteenth Century and After re-examines one of the key issues in English agrarian history - the question of the legal security of the copyholder. Comparing ...
Alexander Dalrymple and the Expansion of British Trade
1st Edition
By Howard T. Fry
February 05, 2015
Alexander Dalrymple was once described as the man who, after Hakluyt, had done most for the spread of Britain’s commerce. In this important new work, Dr. Fry discusses Dalrymple’s extensive contribution to knowledge about New Guinea and his pioneer attempt to establish a free port on Balambangan, ...
An Economic History of England 1870-1939
1st Edition
By William Ashworth
February 05, 2015
This is a comprehensive account of a decisive epoch in England's economic development by a leading economic historian. 'Works of economic history often get bogged dwon in figures - so many machines, so much unemployment, often, too, they are histories of technology, not of economic ...
An Economic History of England: the Eighteenth Century
1st Edition
By T.S. Ashton
February 05, 2015
T.S. Ashton has sought less to cover the field of economic history in detail than to offer a commentary, with a stress on trends of development rather than on forms of organization or economic legislation. This book seeks to interpret the growth of population, agriculture, maufacture, trade and ...
An Economic History of Italy: From the Fall of the Empire to the Beginning of the 16th Century
1st Edition
By Gino Luzzatto
February 05, 2015
This book is the first to provide English readers with a brief and comprehensive survey of economic life in Italy during the period of its greatest splendour: the Middle Ages and Renaissance. The wealth of Renaissance Italy was the product of centuries of growth, and the great Renaissance cities, ...
An Economic History of the British Isles
1st Edition
By Arthur Birnie
February 05, 2015
First Published in 2005. Economic History has been briefly defined as the study of material progress. Economic History deals primarily with the material side of human progress, but it is not therefore a materialistic study....
Aspects of Capital Investment in Great Britain 1750-1850: A preliminary survey, report of a conference held the University of Sheffield, 5-7 January 1969
1st Edition
Edited
By S. Pollard, J.P.P Higgins
February 05, 2015
These six papers were originally delivered to a conference at Sheffield University in 1969 and represent an overview of a research project led by Professor Pollard, which aimed to construct a series of annual figures of capital formation for the Industrial Revolution in Britain - both in aggregate ...
Banker's World: The Revival of the City 1957-1970
1st Edition
Edited
By Richard Fry
February 05, 2015
First Published in 2005. In the decade of the sixties, which brought so many disappointments to the British people, one signal achievement stands out: the revival of "The City"—London's financial district—as a major centre of international finance. To work in the City now seems to hold the promise ...