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 Finance of British Industry, 1918-1976
1st Edition
By W.A. Thomas
February 05, 2015
How has British industry financed itself in the past? With the current debate on industry's financial strategy, this study of the past sixty years is a particularly timely contribution to the discussions on the future financing of industry. This book gives, for the inter-war years, a detailed ...
The Growth and Role of UK Financial Institutions, 1880-1966
1st Edition
By D.K. Sheppard
February 05, 2015
First published in 1971, this monetary theory text looks at the United Kingdom's financial institutions and financial statistics as published by the Bank of England or by Government agencies from 1880-1962....
The Growth of the Athenian Economy
1st Edition
By A French
February 05, 2015
First Published in 2005. Between the early sixth and the late fifth century a transformation took place in the fortunes of Athens. Unimportant in the affairs of Greece at the beginning of the sixth century she drew her livelihood from a peasant economy which had become depressed and chaotic. A ...
The Industrial & Commercial Revolutions in Great Britain During the Nineteenth Century
1st Edition
By L.C.A Knowles
February 05, 2015
First Published in 2005. In this book, the author seeks to bring out the causes which led to the coming of machinery and which made Great Britain the workshop of the world for a large part of the nineteenth century. Knowles especially stresses the world position of the United Kingdom during the ...
The Industrial History of Modern England
1st Edition
By George Herbert Perris
February 05, 2015
First Published in 2005. The purpose of this title is to outline the facts and to interpret the spirit of the economic history of Britain one hundred and fifty years prior to original publication. The author chose to focus within such limits of social transformation and, from this, they then ...
The Industrial Revolution in the Eighteenth Century: An outline of the beginnings of the modern factory system in England
1st Edition
By Paul Mantoux
February 05, 2015
This classic volume, first published in 1928, is a comprehensive introduction to all aspects of the Industrial Revolution. Arranged in three distinct parts, it covers: * Preparatory Changes* Inventions and Factories* The Immediate Consequences. A valuable reference, it is, as Professor T. S. ...
The London Weaver's Company 1600 - 1970
1st Edition
By Alfred Plummer
February 05, 2015
The Worshipful Company of Weavers, the oldest of all the London Livery Companies, can trace its origins to a twelfth-century craft guild. Largely based upon original records never before studied in depth, this authorized history of the company covers the period from the end of the reign of ...
The Portugal Trade: A study of Anglo-Portugeuse Commerce 1700-1770
1st Edition
By H.E.S Fisher
February 05, 2015
Historians have long considered the ways in which the expansion of English trade beyond Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries contributed to the growth of English overseas trade as a whole, and to the coming of the Industrial Revolution. Their concentration on trade between England and...
Towards the Managed Economy: Keynes, the Treasury and the fiscal policy debate of the 1930s
1st Edition
By Roger Middleton
February 05, 2015
This is a major study of economic policy making in Britain between the wars. It provided the first full-length analysis of the early development of fiscal policy as a tool of modern economic management. The central question addressed is how Keynesian fiscal policies came to be adopted by the ...
Trade Union and Social History
1st Edition
By A.E. Musson
February 05, 2015
There is perhaps no area of British life where attitudes are more strongly influenced by shared traditions and past experiences than the trade union movement; the memory of the working-class movements is a long one. It is therefore all the more important in the light of recent events to examine the...
Tropical Development: 1880-1913
1st Edition
Edited
By William Arthur
February 05, 2015
First Published in 2005. Part of a series on Economic History, this book looks at Tropical Development from 1880 to 1913. These essays were prepared during the year 1967-8 for the tropics modern economic development began in the last quarter of the nineteenth century with its revolutionary ...
W.D. & H.O. Wills and the development of the UK tobacco Industry: 1786-1965
1st Edition
By B.W.E Alford
February 05, 2015
This independent and critical study in economic and social history is based on free access to the records of W.D. & H.O. Wills. Dr Alford traces the history of the firm from its origin to its transformation into a constituent part of a larger company. Having played such a leading role in the ...