Perspectives in Economic and Social History
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Early Modern Trading Networks in Europe: Cooperation and the case of Simon Ruiz
1st Edition
By Ana Sofia Ribeiro
September 30, 2020
In the early modern period, trade became a truly global phenomenon. The logistics, financial and organizational complexity associated with it increased in order to connect distant geographies and merchants from different backgrounds. How did these merchants prevent their partners from dishonesty in...
Labor Before the Industrial Revolution: Work, Technology and their Ecologies in an Age of Early Capitalism
1st Edition
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By Thomas Max Safley
September 30, 2020
One cannot conceive of capitalism without labor. Yet many of the current debates about economic development leading to industrialization fail to directly engage with labor at all. This collection of essays strives to correct this oversight and to reintroduce labor into the great debates about ...
Labour and Living Standards in Pre-Colonial West Africa: The case of the Gold Coast
1st Edition
By Klas Rönnbäck
September 30, 2020
Sub-Saharan Africa is the poorest region in the world. But its current status has skewed our understanding of the economy before colonization. Rönnbäck reconstructs the living standards of the population at a time when the Atlantic slave trade brought money and men into the area, enriching our ...
Mercantilism, Account Keeping and the Periphery-Core Relationship
1st Edition
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By Cheryl Susan McWatters
September 30, 2020
Mercantilism and accounting remain two dynamic and debated concepts in terms of definition and scope. This volume brings together the research of international scholars from a wide variety of disciplines – accounting, anthropology, native studies, economic geography, economic history and management...
Merchant Communities in Asia, 1600–1980
1st Edition
By Madeleine Zelin
September 30, 2020
This book is the first to use local primary sources to explore the interaction between foreign and native merchants in Asian countries. Contributors discuss the different economic, political and cultural conditions that gave rise to a variety of merchant communities in Korea, China, Japan, Taiwan, ...
Merchants and Trading in the Sixteenth Century: The Golden Age of Antwerp
1st Edition
By Jeroen Puttevils
September 30, 2020
Sixteenth-century Europe was powered by commerce. Whilst mercantile groups from many areas prospered, those from the Low Countries were particularly successful. This study, based on extensive archival research, charts the ascent of the merchants established around Antwerp....
Philanthropy and the Funding of the Church of England, 1856–1914
1st Edition
By Sarah Flew
September 30, 2020
The changing relationship between the church and its supporters is key to understanding changing religious and social attitudes in Victorian Britain. Using the records of the Anglican Church’s home-missionary organizations, Flew charts the decline in Christian philanthropy and its connection to the...
Prostitution and Social Control in Eighteenth-Century Ports
1st Edition
By Marion Pluskota
September 30, 2020
In the last third of the eighteenth-century, Bristol and Nantes were two of the most active commercial ports of England and France, despite a slowdown of their economy. Their economies were based primarily on the maritime trade, but they developed alongside Atlantic industries that attracted many ...
Sanitation in Urban Britain, 1560-1700
1st Edition
By Leona J. Skelton
September 30, 2020
Popular belief holds that throwing the contents of a chamber pot into the street was a common occurrence during the early modern period. This book challenges this deeply entrenched stereotypical image as the majority of urban inhabitants and their local governors alike valued clean outdoor public ...
Small and Medium Powers in Global History: Trade, Conflicts, and Neutrality from the 18th to the 20th Centuries
1st Edition
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By Jari Eloranta, Eric Golson, Peter Hedberg, Maria Cristina Moreira
September 30, 2020
This volume brings together a leading group of scholars to offer a new perspective on the history of conflicts and trade, focusing on the role of small and medium, or "weak", and often neutral states. Existing historiography has often downplayed the importance of such states in world trade, during ...
A History of Professional Economists and Policymaking in the United States: Irrelevant genius
1st Edition
By Jonathan S. Franklin
December 12, 2019
Over the course of the twentieth century, professional economists have become a feature in the policymaking process and have slowly changed the way we think about work, governance, and economic justice. However, they have also been a frustrating, paradoxical, and in recent years, controversial ...
Merchants and Trade Networks in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, 1550-1800: Connectors of commercial maritime systems
1st Edition
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By Manuel Sánchez, Klemens Kaps
December 12, 2019
This collective volume explores the ways merchants managed to connect different spaces all over the globe in the early modern period by organizing the movement of goods, capital, information and cultural objects between different commercial maritime systems in the Mediterranean and Atlantic basin. ...