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 Famine Resilience
1st Edition
Edited
By Jessica Dijkman, Bas van Leeuwen
April 01, 2021
Food crises have always tested societies. This volume discusses societal resilience to food crises, examining the responses and strategies at the societal level that effectively helped individuals and groups to cope with drops in food supply, in various parts of the world over the past two ...
Money, Currency and Crisis: In Search of Trust, 2000 BC to AD 2000
1st Edition
Edited
By R.J. van der Spek, Bas van Leeuwen
September 30, 2020
Money is a core feature in all discussions of economic crisis, as is clear from the debates about the responses of the European Central Bank and the Federal Reserve Bank of the United States to the 2008 economic crisis.This volume explores the role of money in economic performance, and focuses on ...
The Development of Modern Industries in Bengal: ReIndustrialisation, 1858–1914
1st Edition
By Indrajit Ray
September 30, 2020
Bengal’s traditional industries, once celebrated worldwide, largely decayed under the backwash effects of the British Industrial Revolution in the first half of the nineteenth century. Although colonial ambivalence is often cited as an explanation, this study also shows that a series of new ...
The Economic Development of Europe's Regions: A Quantitative History since 1900
1st Edition
Edited
By Joan Ramón Rosés, Nikolaus Wolf
September 30, 2020
This book is the first quantitative description of Europe’s economic development at a regional level over the entire twentieth century. Based on a new and comprehensive set of data, it brings together a group of leading economic historians in order to describe and analyze the development of ...
A History of Market Performance: From Ancient Babylonia to the Modern World
1st Edition
Edited
By R.J. Van der Spek, Jan Luiten van Zanden, Bas van Leeuwen
December 12, 2019
This exciting new volume examines the development of market performance from Antiquity until the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. Efficient market structures are agreed by most economists to serve as evidence of economic prosperity, and to be prerequisites for further economic growth. However, ...
Central Banking in a Democracy: The Federal Reserve and its Alternatives
1st Edition
By John Wood
December 12, 2019
The Federal Reserve System, which has been Congress’s agent for the control of money since 1913, has a mixed reputation. Its errors have been huge. It was the principal cause of the Great Depression of the 1930s and the inflation of the 1970s, and participated in the massive bailouts of financial ...
European Banks and the Rise of International Finance: The post-Bretton Woods era
1st Edition
By Carlo Edoardo Altamura
December 12, 2019
The banking and financial sector has expanded dramatically in the last forty years, and the consequences of this accelerated growth have been felt by people around the world.European Banks and the Rise of International Finance examines the historical origins of the financialised world we live in by...
Famines in European Economic History: The Last Great European Famines Reconsidered
1st Edition
Edited
By Declan Curran, Lubomyr Luciuk, Andrew Newby
December 12, 2019
This volume explores economic, social, and political dimensions of three catastrophic famines which struck mid-nineteenth and early-twentieth century Europe; the Irish Famine (An Gorta Mór ) of 1845–1850, the Finnish Famine (Suuret Nälkävuodet) of the 1860s and the Ukrainian Famine (Holodomor) of ...
Innovation and Technological Diffusion: An economic history of early steam engines
1st Edition
By Harry Kitsikopoulos
December 12, 2019
This book deals with two key aspects of the history of steam engines, a cornerstone of the Industrial Revolution, specifically the road that led to its discovery and the process of diffusion of the early steam engines. The first part of the volume outlines the technological and scientific ...
Regulating Competition: Cartel registers in the twentieth-century world
1st Edition
Edited
By Susanna Fellman, Martin Shanahan
December 12, 2019
Cartels, trusts and agreements to reduce competition between firms have existed for centuries, but became particularly prevalent toward the end of the 19th century. In the mid-20th century governments began to use so called ‘cartel registers’ to monitor and regulate their behaviour. This book ...
The History of Migration in Europe: Perspectives from Economics, Politics and Sociology
1st Edition
Edited
By Francesca Fauri
December 12, 2019
The History of Migration in Europe belies several myths by arguing, for example, that immobility has not been the "normal" condition of people before the modern era. Migration (far from being an income-maximizing choice taken by lone individuals) is often a household strategy, and local wages ...
The Second Bank of the United States: �Central� banker in an era of nation-building, 1816�1836
1st Edition
By Jane Ellen Knodell
December 12, 2019
The year 2016 marks the 200th anniversary of the founding of the Second Bank of the United States (1816-1836). This book is an economic history of an early central bank, the Second Bank of the United States (1816-36). After US President Andrew Jackson vetoed the re-chartering of the Bank in 1832, ...