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 England, 1776-1851
1st Edition
By Dorothy Marshall
September 11, 2014
Dr Dorothy Marshall covers a vital period in English social development, during which the traditional social hierarchy of order and degree was giving place to a class society marked by the growth of a self-conscious working class. The author shows how, between 1776 and 1851, industrialization ...
Economic and Social History of Medieval Europe
1st Edition
By Henri Pirenne
February 13, 2014
First published in 2005. This original study the author writing in 1936 has tried to sketch the character and general movement of the economic and social evolution of Western Europe from the end of the Roman Empire to the middle of the fifteenth century....
Six Centuries of Work and Wages: The History of English Labour
1st Edition
By James E. Thorold Rogers
May 03, 2013
First Published in 2005. This book includes the history of labour and wages from the reign of Henry II in 1258 to the nineteenth century. To give context to the wages of workers it also includes the general prices of the time in order to estimate the purchasing power of those wages, as well as the ...
Agricultural Fluctuations in Europe: From the Thirteenth to twentieth centuries
1st Edition
By Wilhelm Abel
March 28, 2013
Wilhelm Abel's study of economic fluctuations over a period of seven hundred years has long been established as a core text in European agricultural history. Professor Abel was one of the first economic historians to make extensive use of statistical data, and his scholarship and approach have had ...
Ancient Rome at Work: An Economic History of Rome From the Origins to the Empire
1st Edition
By Paul Louis
March 28, 2013
Originally published in 1927 this volume includes an economic history of Rome from the origins to the Empire, with four illustrations and six maps. It is the fourth volume to appear in a section on ancient Rome. A period of nearly 1200 years is covered, tracing the economic life of Rome from the ...
By the Sweat of Their Brow: Women workers at Victorian Coal Mines
1st Edition
By Angela V. John
March 28, 2013
The pit brow lasses who sorted coal and performed a variety of jobs above ground at British coal mines prompted a violent debate about women’s work in the nineteenth century. Seen as the prime example of degraded womanhood, the pit brow woman was regarded as an aberration in a masculine domain, ...
International Money: A Collection of Essays
1st Edition
By Charles P. Kindlerberger
March 28, 2013
This book was first published in 1981....
The Anti-Corn Law League: 1838-1846
1st Edition
By Norman McCord
March 28, 2013
Although the Anti-Corn Law league played a most important part in the politics of the 1840's, there is no modern study of its activities and organization. Based on several years work on the original sources, as well as papers belonging to George Wilson, President of the League for most of its life,...
The Victorian Economy
1st Edition
By Francois Crouzet
March 28, 2013
Britain’s role in the mid-nineteenth century as the world’s greatest economic power was an extraordinary phenomenon, foreshadowed in the Industrial Revolution of the century before and originating from a unique combination of global and indigenous factors. In this study François Crouzet analyses ...
Years of Recovery: British Economic Policy 1945-51
1st Edition
By Alec Cairncross
March 28, 2013
Years of Recovery was the first comprehensive study of the transition from war to peace in the British economy under the Labour government of 1945–51. It includes a full account of the successive crises and turning-points in those hectic years – the coal and convertibility crises of 1947, ...
Essays on a Mature Economy: Britain After 1840: Papers and Proceedings on the New Economic History of Britain 1840-1930
1st Edition
Edited
By Deirdre McCloskey
March 15, 2013
These unique papers were originally read at a conference on the new economic history of Britain at Harvard in 1970, and each is accompanied by a summary of the discussion that followed it. The participants of the conference represented a broad range of scholars from both sides of the Atlantic. The ...
Silver in England
1st Edition
By Philippa Glanville
March 15, 2013
First Published in 2005. Silver is unique among the decorative arts in that its raw material is both inherently valuable and infinitely reusable. Its ownership has been a social bench-mark and its form has exercised the skills of sculptors, designers, chasers and engravers, but ultimately it could ...