Routledge Explorations in Economic History
About the Book Series
This long established series provides a platform for books which break new ground in the understanding of the development of the modern world economy. Equally rooted in economics and history, the series is not limited to any particular period or region. Individual titles focus on particular countries, key industries, themes, or international economic relations.
An Economic History of Spanish Industrialization
1st Edition
Edited
By Jordi Catalan, Marc Prat
June 03, 2026
Spain belongs to the group of European peripheral economies where the diffusion of the British Industrial Revolution failed during the 19th century, as Professor Jordi Nadal underlined half a century ago. This book presents the analysis of leading economic historians on the long-term economic ...
Colonial Commodities in Historical Capitalism: Brazil for Export
1st Edition
Edited
By Gustavo Acioli Lopes, Leonardo Marques, Felipe Souza Melo
February 06, 2026
From the role of sugar in the early history of the colonial era to coffee in the long nineteenth century, commodities have played a crucial role in the development of the Brazilian economy. Drawing on the history of commodities approach, this book explores both the external and internal commodity ...
The Development of European Competition Policy: Social Democracy and Regulation
1st Edition
Edited
By Brian Shaev, Sigfrido M. Ramírez Pérez
December 26, 2025
This book considers a central issue of our time: the relationship between the macroeconomic objectives of political parties in democratic countries and the legal framework of market economies. The impressive panel of contributors examines social-democratic policies on cartels, market concentration ...
Inequality in Preindustrial Latin America: Economic and Social Patterns
1st Edition
Edited
By María Inés Moraes, Amílcar E. Challú
December 02, 2025
Inequality in Preindustrial Latin America is a groundbreaking examination of economic and social disparities in the region, spanning from pre-Columbian times to the nineteenth century. This comprehensive volume with contributions of leading scholars is divided into two parts, offering a ...
Public Finances of a European Dictatorship: Portugal under the Estado Novo Regime
1st Edition
By Ricardo Ferraz
November 28, 2025
Contributing to the renewed interest in economic history in the role played by peripheral or smaller countries, this book provides a detailed analysis of Portuguese public finances during the Estado Novo regime (1933–1974) – a period marked by dictatorship, industrialization, internationalization, ...
Health, Nutrition and Inequality in Latin America: An Anthropometric History
1st Edition
Edited
By Manuel Llorca-Jaña, José Miguel Martínez-Carrión, Ricardo Salvatore
September 30, 2025
Drawing on anthropometric data, this book examines the evolution of biological living standards of Latin American populations and evaluates the inequality of nutrition and health in the region in the modern era. Utilising data from the 19th and 20th centuries, and providing broad coverage of Latin ...
The Political Economy of Interwar Foreign Investment: Economic Nationalism and French Capital in Poland, 1918–1939
1st Edition
By Jerzy Łazor
September 29, 2025
France was interwar Poland’s main ally, and the biggest source of the country’s foreign investment. The two roles were closely connected: Paris used its position in Warsaw to win preferential treatment for its firms, while Polish authorities depended on France to finance their modernization ...
A Global Financial History of Oil Crises
1st Edition
By Carlo Edoardo Altamura
August 22, 2025
In this book, Altamura analyses the oil shocks of 1973 and 1979, considering their impact on the world economy and subsequent reactions to the global instability. In terms of actors, the focus is on how international organisations such as the IMF, World Bank and OECD responded to the crisis, as ...
The Swiss National Bank: An Unconventional History
1st Edition
By Mikael Huber
July 25, 2025
Echoing new trends in central banking history, this book traces the story of the Swiss National Bank from the end of World War II, going beyond monetary policy and inflation to explore the full scope of the bank’s activities. Drawing on extensive archival research, it examines the broader landscape...
Tourism and Economic Development: Southern Europe through the 20th Century
1st Edition
Edited
By Patrizia Battilani, Carlos Larrinaga, Donatella Strangio
June 30, 2025
By the end of the 19th century, there were already some countries in southern Europe whose economies benefitted from the arrival of tourists. But it was during the 20th century, and particularly after the Second World War, that the phenomenon of mass tourism arrived and dramatically impacted the ...
The Economy of Classical Athens: Organization, Institutions and Society
1st Edition
By Emmanouil M. L. Economou
May 06, 2025
In parallel to the development of democracy, the Athenians of the Classical period established a series of sophisticated economic institutions for the time through which they developed a maritime and commercially oriented economy. This book provides a thorough analysis of this transformation and ...
A History of the Global Wheat Trade: Actors and Dynamics (1840-1914)
1st Edition
Edited
By Marco Bertilorenzi, Carlo Fumian, Giovanni Gozzini
April 29, 2025
During the second half of the 19th century, a new global market for wheat came to the fore. Ever since, scarce and perishable food has been transformed into a modern global commodity, millions of tons of which is sold, bought, and transported across the oceans, providing the “daily bread” for a ...