Routledge Library Editions: Economic History reprints some of the most important works on economic history published in the last century.
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By Peter Mathias
March 31, 2015
Peter Mathias’s subject is the creation in late eighteenth-century England of the industrial system – and thereby the present world. That unique conjuncture poses the sharpest questions about the nature of industrialization, social change and historical explanation, issues that are his principal ...
By Robert Trow-Smith
February 27, 2015
First Published in 2005. History books have told us for far too long that farming in Britain was, in the eighteenth century, Tull's drill, Townshend's turnips, and Bakewell's metamorphosis of the cow and sheep; in the nineteenth century, corn laws, Coke's enlightened Norfolk squire-dom, and the ...
By Ian M. Drummond
February 27, 2015
First Published in 2005. This volume looks at the period of 1919 to 1939 in British economic policy and the Empire, including documents on imperial policy....
By David French
February 27, 2015
The political manoeuvres which brought about the collapse of Britain's last Liberal government in May 1915 have already been the subject of much scholarly debate. This book will attempt to go beyond the arena of strictly party and factional politics and will examine some of the administrative ...
By Alan Birch
February 27, 2015
This book was first published in 1967. This volume explores the history of the British iron and steel industry from 1760, tracking its development, relationship with the British economy, regional hubs, technological developments and the final triumph of steel over iron....
By Richard Tames
February 27, 2015
In 1801 the population of Great Britain was 10.6 million; by 1901 it was 37.1 million. The national product in 1801 has been valued at £138,000,000; by 1901 it was £1,948,000,000. The rise per head was from £12.9 to £52.5 and, as these figures represent constant prices, the rise in material ...
By P.L. Cottrell
February 27, 2015
The nineteenth century was a time of rapid change in forms of organization of economic activity. A central feature of such change was, inevitably, the development of new types of finance adapted to the radically new environment. An appreciation of the history of these developments makes a ...
By W.O. Henderson
February 27, 2015
This book was first published in 1961....
By Basil Tripp
February 27, 2015
This volume focuses on the history and company of Renold Chains and the rise of the Precision Chain Industry between 1879 and 1955. Originally published in 1956, Renold Chains Limited, as the largest precision chain and chain accessory producing organisation in the world....
By Richard Pomfret
February 27, 2015
First Published in 2005. The aim of this book is to provide an introduction to and interpretation of the development of the Canadian economy since European settlement. The main contrast between the book’s view and previous interpretations of Canada’s economic past is that, instead of emphasizing ...
By D. Morrah
February 05, 2015
First Published in 2005. This book is an attempt by a layman to explain to other laymen the purposes and processes of industrial assurance, an institution which exercises a far-reaching influence upon the life of the community, and in which for that reason the community, through its political ...
By Gerald A. Hodgett
February 05, 2015
This excellent and concise summary of the social and economic history of Europe in the Middle Ages examines the changing patterns and developments in agriculture, commerce, trade, industry and transport that took place during the millennium between the fall of the Roman Empire and the discovery of ...