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.
The Sustainability and Development of Ancient Economies: Analysis and Examples
1st Edition
By Clement A. Tisdell, Serge Svizzero
December 18, 2024
Drawing on modern economic theory, this book provides new insights into the economic development of ancient economies and the sustainability of their development. The book pays particular attention to the economics of hunting and gathering societies and their diversity. New ideas are presented ...
An Economic History of the First German Unification: State Formation and Economic Development in a European Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By Ulrich Pfister, Nikolaus Wolf
November 28, 2024
There is a striking chronological parallel between Germany’s transition from a post-Malthusian regime to modern economic growth and the formation of a modern nation-state between the late 1860s and the early 1880s, which culminated in the events of 1871.The central question of this book is whether ...
Property, Power and the Growth of Towns: Enterprise and Urban Development,1100-1500
1st Edition
By Catherine Casson, Mark Casson
November 28, 2024
Local enterprise, institutional quality and strategic location were of central importance in the growth of medieval towns. This book, comprising a study of 112 English towns, emphasises these key factors. Downstream locations on major rivers attracted international trade, and thereby stimulated the...
The Age of Global Economic Crises: (1929-2022)
1st Edition
Edited
By Juan Manuel Matés-Barco, María Vázquez-Fariñas
November 28, 2024
The frequency and repetition of economic crises over the last hundred years demands an analysis that allows us to discover the root causes of these situations and the problems they have generated in the world economy. This book investigates these cycles throughout the 20th and the early 21st ...
Economic History of Living Standards in Brazil: Policy, Health, and Environment, 1850–1950
1st Edition
By Daniel W. Franken
November 15, 2024
Incorporating political, economic, and environmental factors, this book explores the evolution of health and living standards in Brazil in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It draws on anthropometric data and an interdisciplinary approach to illuminate the profound socioeconomic ...
Networks in the Early History of Capitalism: Merchant Practices in Renaissance Venice
1st Edition
By Stefania Montemezzo
October 31, 2024
Drawing on a detailed examination of Venetian commerce in the Middle Ages, this book explores the business practices and structures that enabled merchants to compete in a challenging international market. Contributing to the literature on the early history of capitalism, this book demonstrates how ...
Inequality and Nutritional Transition in Economic History: Spain in the 19th-21st Centuries
1st Edition
Edited
By Francisco J. Medina-Albaladejo, José Miguel Martínez Carrión, Salvador Calatayud
October 08, 2024
Food consumption and nutrition are historically among the most characteristic features of inequality in living standards driven by socioeconomic, gender, generational and geographical reasons. Nutrition directly impacts mortality, life expectancy, height and illness and thus becomes a good ...
The Economy of Ancient Egypt: State, Administration, Institutions
1st Edition
By Mahmoud Ezzamel
August 21, 2024
Taking ancient records as the starting point for analysis, this book theorises the state, administration and economy of ancient Egypt. The Egyptian state is theorised as an administrative field of material and symbolic powers with emphasis upon the latter because it has received scant attention in ...
Economic History of the European Energy Industry: Lighting up Western Europe, 19th to 21st centuries
1st Edition
Edited
By Alberte Martínez-López, Jesús Mirás-Araujo, Nuria Rodríguez-Martín
August 06, 2024
Global climate change and the war in Ukraine have put energy back on the agenda for Europe in a way that has not been seen since the oil crisis of the 1970s. But the economics and business of supplying energy to Europe has a long and rich history going back to the nineteenth century. This book ...
Industry and Development in Argentina: An Intellectual History, 1914–1980
1st Edition
By Marcelo Rougier, Juan Odisio
July 29, 2024
This book explores the twists and turns in Argentina’s modern economic history and the debates that raged there around a problem common to all former colonies: how to achieve a level of economic growth for its population in a world characterized by unequal economic relations between the ...
The Development of European Competition Policy: Social Democracy and Regulation
1st Edition
Edited
By Brian Shaev, Sigfrido M. Ramírez Pérez
June 03, 2024
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 ...
The Political Economy of Interwar Foreign Investment: Economic Nationalism and French Capital in Poland, 1918–1939
1st Edition
By Jerzy Łazor
April 30, 2024
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 ...