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Economic History


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Routledge Library Editions: Economic History reprints some of the most important works on economic history published in the last century.
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Economic and Social History of Medieval Europe

Economic and Social History of Medieval Europe

1st Edition

By Henri Pirenne
February 13, 2014

First published in 2005. This original study the author writing in 1936 has tried to sketch the character and general movement of the economic and social evolution of Western Europe from the end of the Roman Empire to the middle of the fifteenth century....

The Scientific and Industrial Revolution of Time

The Scientific and Industrial Revolution of Time

1st Edition

By M.E. Beggs Humpreys, D.W. Humphreys
October 12, 2015

An earlier book in this series told the story of the Industrial Revolution which took place between the years 1760 and i860. It was a revolution resulting from the introduction of a new form of power—steam power. This text looks at another industrial revolution which has taken place in the hundred...

A Short History of the World's Shipping Industry

A Short History of the World's Shipping Industry

1st Edition

By C. Ernest Fayle
July 16, 2015

This book outlines the story of shipping as a business and describes the way in which, at each period of the world's history, merchant ships were owned and operated. It provides information on the relations between ship-owners and governments, and the conditions of life and work afloat....

Keynesianism vs. Monetarism And other essays in financial history

Keynesianism vs. Monetarism: And other essays in financial history

1st Edition

Edited By Charles P. Kindleberger
July 16, 2015

This book was first published in 1985....

The Trade Winds A Study of British Overseas Trade During the French Wars 1793-1815

The Trade Winds: A Study of British Overseas Trade During the French Wars 1793-1815

1st Edition

Edited By C.Northcote Parkinson
June 08, 2015

First Published in 2005. The authors of this book have tried to portray, in outline, the background of trade against which the Navy of Nelson's time had to operate. The Tarde Winds is the title they have chosen and the book should serve to remind us of many physical facts which then dominated the ...

Wool Trade in Tudor and Stuart England

Wool Trade in Tudor and Stuart England

1st Edition

By Peter J. Bowden
June 08, 2015

This book was first published in 1962. Until the era of the Industrial Revolution wool was, without question, the most important raw material in the English economic system. The staple article of the country's export trade in the Middle Ages, it remained until the nineteenth century the ...

American Business Cycles 1945-50

American Business Cycles 1945-50

1st Edition

By Conrad Blyth
May 21, 2015

After the end of the Second World War businessmen and economists throughout the world feared that the American postwar inflationary boom would end in a serious slump. The slump took a long time to come, and when it did appear in 1949 it was both mild and short lived. In its mildness and brevity it ...

An Economic History of the United States Since 1783

An Economic History of the United States Since 1783

1st Edition

By Francis G. Walett
May 21, 2015

First Published in 2005. This is Volume two of a series on the Economic History of the USA. This book provides a summary of the phases of economic growth. It presents in succinct form and in the most common organization the essential facts about the economic development of the American people. ...

Roots of American Economic Growth 1607-1861 An Essay on Social Causation

Roots of American Economic Growth 1607-1861: An Essay on Social Causation

1st Edition

By Stuart Bruchey
May 21, 2015

First Published in 2005. In this book, the author seeks to apply a self-described broad approach to American economic growth and to place the process within the mainstream of American history. This approach establishes that economic growth involves far more than economics; most students of growth ...

The American Economy 1860-1940

The American Economy 1860-1940

1st Edition

By A.J. Youngson Brown
May 21, 2015

First Published in 2005. This study looks at the economic history of the United States, taking in such areas as the developing population of America, the impact of the railroads and expansion of industry and Government from 1760 to 1940. It charts the progress, decline and stabilisation of the ...

The Industrial Revolution

The Industrial Revolution

1st Edition

By Mary Beggs-Humphreys
May 21, 2015

Between the mid-eighteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries Great Britain changed from a mainly agricultural country into a mainly industrial one. Because the change came about so quickly we can indeed describe it as a revolution. This period of a hundred years might well be called 'the age of steam ...

The Study of Economic History Collected Inaugural Lectures 1893-1970

The Study of Economic History: Collected Inaugural Lectures 1893-1970

1st Edition

By N.B. Harte
May 21, 2015

First Published in 2005. This volume collects together the twenty-one inaugural lectures in economic history, eighteen of them delivered by professors of the subject in British universities between 1929 and 1970. To these, three earlier lectures have been appropriately added....

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