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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Commercial Crises of the Nineteenth Century
1st Edition
By H.M. Hyndman
March 07, 2013
Introduction Chapter 1. The crisis of 1815 Chapter 2. The crisis of 1825 Chapter 3. The crisis of 1836-1839 Chapter 4. The crisis of 1847 Chapter 5. The crisis of 1857 Chapter 6. The crisis of 1866 Chapter 7. The crisis of 1873 Chapter 8. The crisis of 1882 Chapter 9. The crisis of 1890 Chapter 10....
Medieval Merchant Venturers: Collected Studies
1st Edition
By E.M Carus-Wilson
March 07, 2013
First published in 1967, this superb collection of essays on trade in the Middle Ages has been a major contribution to modern medieval studies. Professor Carus-Wilson examines: * fifteenth-century Bristol* trade with Iceland* the Merchant Adventurers of London* the thirteenth-century cloth ...
Population Malthus: His Life and Times
1st Edition
By Patricia James
March 07, 2013
This is a fascinating insight into the work of one of our greatest thinkers. Thomas Robert Malthus (1766–1834) is best remembered today for his theories on the menace of over-population; this first ever full-length biography shows him also in his role as one of the founders of classical ...
The Malthusian Controversy
1st Edition
By Kenneth Smith
March 07, 2013
This book, first published in 1951, focuses on the hitherto ignored contemporary critics of Malthus, giving them the attention they so rightly deserve. Dr Smith traces the Malthusian controversy step by step, from 1798, the date of the First Essay, to the death of Malthus in 1834. Investigating ...
The Rise of Modern Industry
1st Edition
By J.L. Hammond, Barbara Hammond
March 07, 2013
First Published in 2005. This book is written for the general reader and not for the specialist. It is an attempt to put the Industrial Revolution in its place in history, and to give an idea both of its significance and of the causes that determined the age and the society in which it began. The ...
Economic Development in the Long Run
1st Edition
Edited
By A.J. Youngson
February 28, 2013
This book enlarges our understanding of economic development by bringing together items or aspects of historical experience relevant to the present-day problems of developing countries; by looking at the problems over a longer period than is usual in development economics, so that the ...
Economic Development in the Nineteenth Century: France, Germany, Russia and the United States
1st Edition
By L.C.A. Knowles
February 28, 2013
Taken in conjunction the author’s earlier Industrial and Commercial Revolutions in Great Britain during the Nineteenth Century, this classic volume provides a thoroughly workmanlike study of the rise and progress of industrialism. Here she surveys the main developments in the agricultural, ...
English Peasant Farming: The Agrarian history of Lincolnshire from Tudor to Recent Times
1st Edition
By Joan Thirsk
February 28, 2013
English society until the mid-eighteenth century was a predominantly rural and a peasant society. Yet we know surprisingly little about peasant life. This volume originally published in 1957, presents the agrarian history of Lincolnshire from Tudor to recent times....
Money, Finance and Empire: 1790-1960
1st Edition
By A.N. Porter, R.F. Holland
February 28, 2013
This book was first published in 1985....
The Dynamics of Victorian Business
1st Edition
Edited
By Roy Church
February 28, 2013
First Published in 2005. This volume looks at the problems and perspectives of Victorian Business in the 1870s.The purpose of this collection of essays is to explore further that part of the thesis, tentatively advanced in interrogative mode in 1975, concerning the course of industrial development ...
Industrial Revolution
1st Edition
By Charles Austin Beard
February 13, 2013
First published in 2005. Taking a look at the Industrial Revolution from 1760 in English Agriculture, Manufacturing and politics and also discussing the mechanical revolution and its economic and social effects., this book puts forward that the civilised world has been changed, and social duties, ...
The Agricultural Revolution
1st Edition
By Eric Kerridge
February 13, 2013
First Published in 2005. This book argues that the agricultural revolution took place in England in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and not in the eighteenth andnineteenth....