Economic History Books

New and Published Books

1. The Future of the Soviet Economic Planning System (Routledge Revivals)

   By David A. Dyker

   On its publication in 1985, this book offered a fresh analysis of the problems faced by the Soviet economy by focussing on the key issues in the economic planning system. David Dyker considers the available options for reform during the 1980s and the most likely developments. Discussing the...

   Published March 31st 2013 by Routledge
2. Female Agency in the Urban Economy

   Gender in European Towns, 1640-1830

   Edited by Deborah Simonton, Anne Montenach

   Series: Routledge Research in Gender and History

   This innovative new book is overtly and explicitly about female agency in eighteenth-century European towns. However, it positions female activity and decisions unequivocally in an urban world of institutions, laws, regulations, customs and ideologies. Gender politics complicated and shaped the...

   Published March 25th 2013 by Routledge
3. The Economic Civil Rights Movement

   African Americans and the Struggle for Economic Power

   Edited by Michael Ezra

   Series: Routledge Studies in African American History

   Economic inequalities have been perhaps the most enduring problem facing African Americans since the civil rights movement, despite the attention they have received from activists. Although the civil rights movement dealt successfully with injustices like disenfranchisement and segregated public...

   Published March 25th 2013 by Routledge
4. A Colonial Economy in Crisis

   Burma's Rice Cultivators and the World Depression of the 1930s

   By Ian Brown

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

   The book challenges the orthodox argument that rural populations which abandoned self-sufficiency to become single commodity producers, and were supposedly very vulnerable to the commodity price collapse of the 1930s Depression, did not suffer as much as has been supposed. It shows how the effects...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
5. Colonial Exploitation and Economic Development

   The Belgian Congo and the Netherlands Indies Compared

   Edited by Ewout Frankema, Frans Buelens

   Series: Routledge Explorations in Economic History

   Since many countries in the world at present were European colonies in the not so distant past, the relationship between colonial institutions and development outcomes is a key topic of study across many disciplines. This edited volume, from a leading international group of scholars, discusses the...

   Published March 17th 2013 by Routledge
6. Essays on a Mature Economy: Britain After 1840

   Papers and Proceedings on the New Economic History of Britain 1840-1930

   Edited by Deirdre McCloskey

   Series: Economic History

   These unique papers were originally read at a conference on the new economic history of Britain at Harvard in 1970, and each is accompanied by a summary of the discussion that followed it. The participants of the conference represented a broad range of scholars from both sides of the Atlantic. The...

   Published March 14th 2013 by Routledge
7. Silver in England

   By Philippa Glanville

   Series: Economic History

   Published March 14th 2013 by Routledge
8. Introducing Money

   By Mark Peacock

   Series: Economics as Social Theory

   This book provides a theoretical and historical examination of the evolution of money. It is distinct from the majority of ‘economic’ approaches, for it does not see money as an outgrowth of market exchange via barter. Instead, the social, political, legal and religious origins of money are...

   Published March 12th 2013 by Routledge
9. Case Studies on Modern European Economy

   Entrepreneurship, Inventions, and Institutions

   By Ivan Berend

   The last two centuries have been the scene of dramatic change throughout Europe. And one of the main causes of these tremendous and spectacular changes was the economy. These transformations were achieved by people: scientists and political thinkers, inventors and entrepreneurs, educators, skilled...

   Published March 11th 2013 by Routledge
10. The Rise of Modern Industry

    By J.L. Hammond, Barbara Hammond

    Series: Economic History

    Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge