Financial History
Gambling on the American Dream: Atlantic City and the Casino Era
1st Edition
By James R Karmel
January 20, 2016
Provides a historical perspective for understanding the exponential growth of casinos in the United States since 1990, by telling the story of Atlantic City, New Jersey since the 1970s. This work uses oral history to focus on the human stories of the region in addition to the broader story of ...
Government Debts and Financial Markets in Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Fausto Piola Caselli
January 20, 2016
Contains essays by historians of economic and financial history. It illuminates the relationships between government indebtedness and the development of financial markets in Europe from the late Middle Ages to the late twentieth century....
Guilty Money: The City of London in Victorian and Edwardian Culture, 1815-1914
1st Edition
By Ranald C Michie
January 20, 2016
This is an engaging study of the place occupied by the City of London within British cultural life during the Victorian and Edwardian periods. Michie uses both literary and popular novels to examine socio-economic representations during this period....
Money in the Pre-Industrial World: Bullion, Debasements and Coin Substitutes
1st Edition
Edited
By John H Munro
January 20, 2016
The papers in this edited volume discuss key elements of monetarism, including coin denominations, the role of bullion and case studies of substitute moneys....
Reforming the World Monetary System: Fritz Machlup and the Bellagio Group
1st Edition
By Carol M Connell
January 20, 2016
Focusing on Fritz Machlup, Connell presents the story of the Bellagio Group and its contribution to modern finance. Initiated by Machlup the Bellagio Group was made up of thirty-two non-government academic economists. During the years between 1964 and 1977 the Group met eighteen times and made a ...
Slave Agriculture and Financial Markets in Antebellum America: The Bank of the United States in Mississippi, 1831-1852
1st Edition
By Richard Holcombe Kilbourne Jr
January 20, 2016
Offers the study of Antebellum southern slavery and the credit system. This work explains how the Bank of the United States supported the government's and the nation's credit abroad by providing seemingly limitless credit facilities to southern planters, especially in the territories along the ...
Taxation and Debt in the Early Modern City
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael Limberger, José Ignacio Andrés Ucendo
January 20, 2016
Fiscal relations between states and cities in early modern Europe is a major concern for economic and financial historians. This collection of eleven essays is based on new research using documentary evidence from local and national archives from across Europe....
The Development of International Insurance
1st Edition
Edited
By Robin Pearson
January 20, 2016
Despite their economic and social importance, there are relatively few book-length studies of national insurance industries. This collection of nine essays by a group of international experts redresses this balance; providing an extensive geographical and thematic spread, linked via an extensive ...
The Development of the Art Market in England: Money as Muse, 1730–1900
1st Edition
By Thomas M Bayer, John R. Page
January 20, 2016
This book gives a comprehensive account of the history and underlying economics of the modern art market in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain....
The Political Economy of Sentiment: Paper Credit and the Scottish Enlightenment in Early Republic Boston, 1780-1820
1st Edition
By Jose R Torre
January 20, 2016
Situates changes in the nature of money and the rise of sophisticated financial structures at the centre of the Enlightenment. This work argues that paper credit instruments were causal - critical to the larger epistemological and psychological changes associated with the Enlightenment's ...
The Revenue Imperative: The Union's Financial Policies During the American Civil War
1st Edition
By Jane S Flaherty
January 20, 2016
Provides a comprehensive overview of the Union financial policies during the American Civil War. This work argues that the revenue imperative, the need to keep pace with the burgeoning expenses of the conflict, governed the development of fiscal policy....
The Rise and Fall of the American System: Nationalism and the Development of the American Economy, 1790-1837
1st Edition
By Songho Ha
January 20, 2016
The American System was implemented by the US government after the American-British War of 1812 to develop a national domestic market. This study explores the rise and fall of the system between its inception in 1790 and the Panic of 1837....