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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Industrial Britain Under the Regency: The Diaries of Escher, Bodmer, May and de Gallois 1814-18
1st Edition
By W.O. Henderson
February 05, 2015
In this book W. O. Henderson has brought together in English translation the journals of four foreign visitors who travelled in England and Scotland in the years immediately following the Napoleonic wars, in a way which may be regarded as a sequel to his recent book on J. C. Fischer’s diaries of ...
Industries of London Since 1861
1st Edition
By P.G. Hall
February 05, 2015
This book is a study in economic geography, treated historically. Its primary purpose is to describe and explain the industrial geography of London since 1861, using the most recent statistics available for that purpose, noting that this work was originally published in 1962....
Living Through the Industrial Revolution
1st Edition
By Stella Davies
February 05, 2015
First published in 1966, this revealing study looks closely into the lives of the men, women and children working in mines, workshops, factories and farms during the industrial revolution. It investigates the inventors whose new machines made the industrial revolution possible, and reflects on the ...
Mints, Dies and Currency: Essays dedicated to the memory of Albert Baldwin
1st Edition
Edited
By R.A.G. Carson
February 05, 2015
The studies assembled in this volume are dedicated to the memory of Albert Baldein, a professional numismatist whose chief interest lay in helping other numismatists, professionals, students and collectors alike, some of whom record their appreciations here. The contributions, though they are drawn...
Open-Field Farming in Medieval Europe: A Study of Village By-laws
1st Edition
By Warren Ault
February 05, 2015
This book presents a detailed account of the co-operative practice of agriculture in medieval England, shedding much light on how medieval villagers governed their own affairs. During this period co-operation was essential in ploughing, sowing and reaping, with communal control of the pasturing of ...
Quaker Lloyds in the Industrial Revolution
1st Edition
By Humphrey Lloyd
February 05, 2015
First Published in 2005. This book is about the Quaker Lloyds in the time of the industrial Revolution from 1660 to 1860. Inspired at first by several finds of unpublished letters, it was foreseen as the biography of a family, but progressive researches while work on the material was being carried ...
Realms of Silver: One Hundred Years of Banking in the East
1st Edition
By Compton Mackenzie
February 05, 2015
Originally published in 1954 this volume looks at the difficulties encountered by the founders of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China in seeking, a hundred years ago, to establish the awakening countries of the East, British standard of financial probity and commercial integrity and ...
Studies in the Economic Policy of Frederick the Great
1st Edition
By W.O. Henderson
February 05, 2015
Biographies of Frederick the Great generally emphasise the military and diplomatic events of his reign and neglect to discuss fully the significance of his economic policy. In this series of essays Dr. Henderson deals with various aspects of the Prussian economy in Frederick the Great’s reign...
The Banks and the Monetary System in the UK, 1959-1971
1st Edition
Edited
By J.E. Wadsworth
February 05, 2015
The annual Monetary Surveys published in the Midland Bank Review have become an established and authoritative source of reference for all students of money and banking and related topics, and for those concerned with general economics and current affairs. This superb volume brings together ...
The Contemporary Spanish Economy: A Historical Perspective
1st Edition
By Sima lieberman
February 05, 2015
First Published in 2005. This title studies the 1981 insurrection of the Spanish 'Guardia Civil', motivated by political and economic factors. The politico-economic causes of the February incident have been succinctly summarized and traced the institutional causality which explains the ...
The Development of the West of Scotland 1750-1960
1st Edition
By Anthony Slaven
February 05, 2015
The economic and social problems of modern Scotland are at the centre of current debate about regional economic growth, social improvement and environmental rehabilitation. In this book, as relevant today as when it was first published in 1975, Anthony Slaven argues that the extent and causes of ...
The Early English Tobacco Trade
1st Edition
By C.M Macinnes
February 05, 2015
First Published in 2005. The present volume is concerned with the beginnings of the English Tobacco trade, and therefore does not extend beyond the first few years of the eighteenth century or the manufacturing process...