Economic History Books

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1. Alan S. Milward and a Century of European Change

   Edited by Frances Lynch, Fernando Guirao, SIGFRIDO M. RAMIREZ PEREZ

   Alan Steele Milward’s work on 19th- and 20th-century history remains at the forefront of numerous contemporary debates. It covers many disciplines: economic, political, and diplomatic history; political science; economics; international relations; and European Studies in general. Professor Milward...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-87853-1 | Hardback (Routledge)

2. Port-Cities and their Hinterlands: Migration, Trade and Cultural Exchange from the early seventeenth-century to 1939

   Edited by Robert Lee

   Port cities played a critical role in urban development, whether in Europe, North America, or the developing world. Even in the pre-industrial period, trade was an important factor which affected the pattern of urban expansion and ports, after capital cities, often registered the greatest growth...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-58052-6 | Hardback (Routledge)

3. Globalization and the World Oil Industry: A History

   By Paul Chastko

   Globalization and the World Oil Industry explains the dramatic transformation to the world petroleum industry in the 20th century from its modest beginnings as a source of illumination to its status today as the driving force behind the world economy. The book places the development of the industry...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-80648-0 | Hardback (Routledge)

4. Women and Work in Postwar Japan

   By Helen Macnaughtan

   This book provides a comprehensive analysis of women working in the Japanese post-war economy. It shows how the role of women in the economy developed in the years of rapid economic growth when women workers were increasingly in demand to alleviate labour shortages; considers the role of women in...

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-32806-7 | Hardback (Routledge)

5. An Economic History of Organized Crime: A National and Transnational Approach

   By Dennis M. P. McCarthy

   Organized crime is a growing international phenomenon and, as it intersects with terrorism, an increasingly dangerous force. Organized crime has been studied from the perspectives of many scholarly disciplines, and there is a massive literature on the topic created by academics, journalists,...

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-48796-2 | Hardback (Routledge)

6. Stalin's Economist: The Economic Contributions of Jenö Varga

   By André Mommen

   Jenö Varga was the Comintern’s chief economist and contributed much to Stalin’s belief in a coming general crisis of capitalism. His importance resides in the fact that his theoretical and practical work contributed much to the development of the Kremlin’s international grand strategy and...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-57516-4 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   Business History: Complexities and Comparisons

   By Franco Amatori, Andrea Colli

   This major new textbook on business history brings together the expertise of two internationally renowned authors to provide a thorough overview of the developments in business over the last two centuries. Business History is global in scope and looks at both the major players – Europe, the US...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-42397-7 | Paperback (Routledge)

8. An Economic History of Ireland Since Independence

   By Andy Bielenberg, Raymond Ryan

   The recent dramatic decline in the economic fortunes of the Republic of Ireland have been all the more painful, because it followed the most rapid period of economic development ever witnessed in Irish economic history, when growth rates since the early-1990s surpassed those in the rest of Western...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-56694-0 | Hardback (Routledge)

9. Crises and Cycles in Economic Dictionaries and Encyclopaedias

   Edited by Daniele Besomi

   Economic dictionaries have a long history, dating back to Choel’s Dictionnaire Oeconomique first published in 1709. Some of these dictionaries give nothing more than definitions, but some offer ponderous articles, occasionally up to a hundred pages in size that have been influential, or were used...

   February 2011 | 978-0-415-49903-3 | Hardback (Routledge)

10. International Economic Relations since 1945

    By Catherine Schenk

    The international economy since 1945 has endured dramatic changes in its balance of power, from the early period of prosperity for industrialised nations, to the 2008/9 global crisis. In this volume Catherine Schenk outlines these huge changes, examines how the world’s economic leaders have tried...

    February 2011 | 978-0-415-57078-7 | Paperback (Routledge)