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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Britain's Economic Growth 1920-1966
1st Edition
By A.J. Youngson
February 05, 2015
Professor Youngson's book is an ubiased review of Britain's past experience and present difficulties. Few sacred cows are spared. There is no pretence that fundamental problems were resolved at the time of its first publication in 1967. Many econmic historians fail in their assessment of Britian's ...
Britain's Economic Prospects Reconsidered
1st Edition
Edited
By Alec Cairncross
February 05, 2015
This book is a sequal to Britain's Economic Prospects, the report issued in 1968 by the Brookings Institution and universally accepted as the most thorough and comprehensive study of the British Economy to have ever appeared. Two years later, just after the British General election, six fo the ...
British Agriculture: 1875-1914
1st Edition
Edited
By P J Perry
February 05, 2015
Profound Changes took place in British Agriculture between 1875 and 1914. After the prosperous years of the mid-nineteenth century came a period of difficulty for landowners and farmers, with falling prices, lower rents and untenanted farms. Previously attributed to bad seasons and increased food ...
Capital and Steam Power: 1750-1800
1st Edition
By John Lord
February 05, 2015
When it appeared in 1923, John Lord’s Capital and Steam Power 1750–1800 was the first book to be based on the voluminous Boultori and Watt papers in Birmingham since the hey-day of Samuel Smiles. Although Lord’s conclusions have been modified and corrected on various points, this book still ...
Chartist Movement: in its Social and Economic Aspects
1st Edition
By Frank F. Rosenblatt
February 05, 2015
Professor Rosenblatt’s The Chartist Movement was the first serious study of Chartism, using the techniques of modern scholarship, to appear in English. The book comprises a detailed account of the history of the movement, dealing mainly with the period from 1837 until the Chartist riots at Newport,...
Crisis and Change in the Venetian Economy in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
1st Edition
Edited
By Brian Pullan
February 05, 2015
The decline of Venice remains one of the classic episodes in the economic development of modern Europe. Its contrasts are familiar enough: the wealthiest commercial power in fifteenth-century Europe, the strongest western colonial power in the eastern Mediterranean, found its principal fame three ...
Documents of the Industrial Revolution 1750-1850: Select Economic and Social Documents for Sixth forms
1st Edition
Edited
By Richard L. Tames
February 05, 2015
This fascinating collection presents industrialization as a total historical process involving the destruction of one world simultaneously with the creation of another. Divided into two sections, it deals with elements of life such as the organization of labour, the health of the nation, rural and ...
Economic History of the United States
1st Edition
By Francis G. Walett
February 05, 2015
First Published in 2005. This volume offers a summary of all phases of economic growth in the USA. It is based upon the contents of the standard college textbooks in American economic history. It presents in succinct form and in the most common organization the essential facts about the economic ...
England's Foreign Trade in the Nineteenth Century: Its Economic and Social Results
1st Edition
By A.L. Bowley
February 05, 2015
This text offers a short account of England's foreign trade in the nineteenth century and looks at the economic and social results of commerce. First published in 1893, this is a revised version and it includes ten statistical diagrams....
Germany's Comeback in the World Market: the German 'Miracle' explained by the Bonn Minister for Economics
1st Edition
By Ludwig Erhard
February 05, 2015
A great deal has been talked about the economic recovery of Western Germany since the Second World War. It is know htat this recovery was accompanied by the return of the Federal Republic to the markets of the world. Not so much is know abotu the details - about the work effected through the ...
History of English Corn Laws, A: From 1660-1846
1st Edition
By Donald Grove Barnes
February 05, 2015
First Published in 2005. A history of the English Corn Laws 1660-1846 is part of the studies in Economic and Social History series and looks at how the Corn Laws regulated the internal trade, exportation and importation and market development from the twelfth to the eighteenth centuries....
Human Documents of the Industrial Revolution In Britain
1st Edition
By E. Royston pike
February 05, 2015
First Published in 2005. So many books have been written on the Industrial Revolution in Britain that it may be thought that there is hardly room for another. The present volume is an attempt to go some way towards filling what must surely appear to be a somewhat surprising gap in the literature. ...