Perspectives in Economic and Social History
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History of Regional Trade in Southeast Asia: Singapore as an Entrepôt
1st Edition
By Atsushi Kobayashi
December 31, 2025
This book explores maritime Southeast Asia’s trade development during the long nineteenth century, with a focus on the role of Singapore as a regional trade hub. Classical literature attributes the trade growth in modern Southeast Asia to the progress of Western colonisation and assumed Singapore’s...
History of Finance Capital in America: The Great Depression and Interwar Years
1st Edition
By Go Tian Kang
December 26, 2025
Go details through institutional analysis how major financial institutions (including banks and insurance companies), industries, and the U.S. government behaved and linked with each other during the Great Depression and interwar period. Drawing on data that has not been widely used since the late ...
Economics, Politics and Prosperity in Restoration England: An Intellectual History of the Works of Sir William Temple
1st Edition
By Juha Haavisto
July 18, 2025
Drawing on key published works, as well as those of his contemporaries, this book explores the political and economic thought of the seventeenth-century diplomat William Temple and his proposals for change in Restoration England and Ireland. Adopting a revisionist approach, the book explores Temple...
National Wealth, Income and the History of Economic Growth: Finland from the Late 19th Century until the Second World War
1st Edition
By Heikki Mikkonen
June 06, 2025
Despite its current dominant status, economic growth emerged as a field of study and as a political objective only after the Second World War. This book provides an alternative perspective to the Anglo-centric historical analysis of growth by turning the focus on Finland and other Nordic countries ...
National Brands and Global Markets: An Historical Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By Nikolas Glover, David M. Higgins
November 28, 2024
Between Brexit, efforts to ‘Make America great again’, and ongoing appeals for patriotic consumption to boost economies, the intersection between national identity, marketing campaigns, and consumer choices has been brought to the fore. This book maps out this terrain and provides a framework for ...
Queer Trades, Sex and Society: Male Prostitution and the War on Homosexuality in Interwar Scotland
1st Edition
By Jeffrey Meek
November 28, 2024
This book is the first scholarly work to explore male homosexual prostitution in interwar Scotland. The male prostitute occupies a contested position within interwar society – depending on the perspective he was representative of a descent into turpitude, of tenacious organised criminality or of ...
A Global Conceptual History of Asia, 1860�1940
1st Edition
By Hagen Schulz-Forberg
October 14, 2024
Contributors to this volume explore the changing concepts of the social and the economic during a period of fundamental change across Asia. They challenge accepted explanations of how Western knowledge spread through Asia and show how versatile Asian intellectuals were in introducing European ...
History of Economic Management in North Korea: From Planned Economy to Socialist Enterprise System
1st Edition
By Phillip H. Park
August 21, 2024
This book seeks to understand how the economic construction of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) evolved, shaped by the formulation and execution of various economic management systems spanning the years 1949 to 2023, in response to numerous challenges faced by the country. Split ...
Agriculture and the Great Depression: The Rural Crisis of the 1930s in Europe and the Americas
1st Edition
Edited
By Gérard Béaur, Francesco Chiapparino
July 29, 2024
What role did the agricultural sector play in the economic crash of 1929? Taking evidence from country cases across Europe and the Americas, this edited volume explores short-, medium- and long- term perspectives on the primary sector. The monograph brings together the voices of an international ...
Social Cohesion and Welfare States: From Fragmentation to Social Peace
1st Edition
Edited
By Christopher Lloyd, Matti Hannikainen
January 29, 2024
Aiming to go beyond reiterating the stereotypical narrative of the rise of welfare states, this interdisciplinary book examines the long-run historical processes of the development of the welfare state. It focuses on the complex political, social, economic and institutional transformations which ...
A History of Cold War Industrialisation: Finnish Shipbuilding between East and West
1st Edition
By Saara Matala
January 09, 2023
This monograph explores the economic consequences of the Cold War, a polarised world order which politicised technology and shaped industrial development. It provides a detailed archival-based history of the Finnish shipbuilding industry (1952–1996), which f lourished, thanks to the special ...
North Eurasian Trade in World History, 1660–1860: The Economic and Political Importance of the Baltic Sea
1st Edition
By Werner Scheltjens
January 09, 2023
This book offers the first long-term analysis of the protracted struggle between Britain, France, Prussia, Russia, and Sweden for economic power and political influence in the northern part of the Eurasian continent between 1660 and 1860. This book shows how their commercial, diplomatic, and ...