Perspectives in Economic and Social History
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English Catholics and the Education of the Poor, 1847–1902
1st Edition
By Eric G Tenbus
January 20, 2016
Filling an important gap in the historiography of Victorian Britain, this book examines the English Catholic Church's efforts during the second half of the nineteenth century to provide elementary education for Catholics....
Female Economic Strategies in the Modern World
1st Edition
Edited
By Beatrice Moring
January 20, 2016
This collection of essays looks at the various ways in which women have coped financially in a male-dominated world. Chapters focus on Europe and Latin America, and cover the whole of the modern period....
Female Entrepreneurs in Nineteenth-Century Russia
1st Edition
By Galina Ulianova
January 20, 2016
This pioneering work comprehensively examines the history of female entrepreneurship in the Russian Empire during nineteenth-century industrial development....
Financing India's Imperial Railways, 1875–1914
1st Edition
By Stuart Sweeney
January 20, 2016
The Indian railway network began as a liberal experiment to promote trade and commerce, the distribution of food and military mobility. Sweeney's study focuses on Britain's largest overseas investment project during the nineteenth century, offering a new perspective on the Anglo-Indian experience....
Global Trade and Commercial Networks: Eighteenth-Century Diamond Merchants
1st Edition
By Tijl Vanneste
January 20, 2016
At the heart of this study on cross-cultural trade lies a concrete case-study of a network of diamond merchants operating in the early eighteenth century. All the traders examined in this study are outsiders: an English Catholic in Antwerp, Sephardic and Ashkenazi Jews in London and Amsterdam and ...
Jewish Immigrants in London, 1880–1939
1st Edition
By Susan L Tananbaum
January 20, 2016
Between 1880 and 1939, a quarter of a million European Jews settled in England. Tananbaum explores the differing ways in which the existing Anglo-Jewish communities, local government and education and welfare organizations sought to socialize these new arrivals, focusing on the experiences of ...
London Clerical Workers, 1880–1914: Development of the Labour Market
1st Edition
By Michael Heller
January 20, 2016
This study is based on a wide range of business sources as well as newspapers, journals, novels and oral history, allowing Heller to put forward a new interpretation of working conditions for London clerks, highlighting the ways in which clerical work changed and modernized over this period....
Markets and Growth in Early Modern Europe
1st Edition
By Victoria N Bateman
January 20, 2016
This is the first study to analyze a wide spread of price data to determine whether market development led to economic growth in the early modern period....
Meat, Commerce and the City: The London Food Market, 1800–1855
1st Edition
By Robyn S Metcalfe
January 20, 2016
This study examines the struggle between Smithfield market's supporters and detractors and argues that this demonstrates a major shift in the way the urban landscape came to be used....
Merchant Colonies in the Early Modern Period
1st Edition
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By Victor N Zakharov, Gelina Harlaftis, Olga Katsiardi-Hering
January 20, 2016
Merchant colonies were a significant factor for economic growth in Europe during the early modern period. The essays in this collection look at merchant colonies across Europe, assessing their function, legal status, interaction with local traders and assimilation into their host countries....
Merchants and Profit in the Age of Commerce, 1680–1830
1st Edition
Edited
By Dominique Margairaz, Yannick Lemarchand, Pierre Gervais
January 20, 2016
Merchant activity across Europe, America and China during the long eighteenth century is explored in this collection of essays. Using a unique data set from accounts and correspondence, contributors are able to show the fragmented nature of merchant activity and the importance of trust-based social...
Migrants and Urban Change: Newcomers to Antwerp, 1760-1860
1st Edition
By Anne Winter
January 20, 2016
Taking the Belgian city of Antwerp as a case-study, this book argues that the direction of nineteenth century societal change was such as to make some groups of people better suited to reap the benefits of new opportunities....