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Private and Public Enterprise in Europe
Energy, Telecommunications and Transport, 1830-1990
Häftad, 2008
820 kr
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This 2005 book is a comparative history of the economic organisation of energy, telecommunications and transport in Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It examines the role that private and public enterprise have played in the construction and operation of the railways, electricity, …
The Price of Emancipation
Slave-Ownership, Compensation and British Society at the End of Slavery
Inbunden, 2009
1887 kr
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When colonial slavery was abolished in 1833 the British government paid £20 million to slave-owners as compensation: the enslaved received nothing. Drawing on the records of the Commissioners of Slave Compensation, which represent a complete census of slave-ownership, this book provides a …
Market Services and the Productivity Race, 1850-2000
British Performance in International Perspective
Häftad, 2009
754 kr
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Now that services account for such a dominant part of economic activity, it has become apparent that achieving high levels of productivity in the economy requires high levels of productivity in services. This book offers a major reassessment of Britain's comparative productivity performance over …
Slavery, Family, and Gentry Capitalism in the British Atlantic
The World of the Lascelles, 1648-1834
Av S. D. Smith
Häftad, 2010
838 kr
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From the mid-seventeenth century to the 1830s, successful gentry capitalists created an extensive business empire centered on slavery in the West Indies, but inter-linked with North America, Africa, and Europe. S. D. Smith examines the formation of this British Atlantic World from the perspective …
Heroes of Invention
Technology, Liberalism and British Identity, 1750-1914
Häftad, 2010
787 kr
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This innovative study adopts a distinct perspective on both the industrial revolution and nineteenth-century British culture. It investigates why inventors rose to heroic stature and popular acclaim in Victorian Britain, attested by numerous monuments, biographies and honours, and contends there …
The Institutional Framework of Russian Serfdom
Inbunden, 2011
1677 kr
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Russian rural history has long been based on a 'Peasant Myth', originating with nineteenth-century Romantics and still accepted by many historians today. In this book, Tracy Dennison shows how Russian society looked from below, and finds nothing like the collective, redistributive and market-averse …
Childhood and Child Labour in the British Industrial Revolution
Häftad, 2011
519 kr
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This is a unique account of working-class childhood during the British industrial revolution, first published in 2010. Using more than 600 autobiographies written by working men of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Jane Humphries illuminates working-class childhood in contexts untouched by …
Gender, Work and Wages in Industrial Revolution Britain
Häftad, 2011
754 kr
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A major study of the role of women in the labour market of Industrial Revolution Britain. It is well known that men and women usually worked in different occupations, and that women earned lower wages than men. These differences are usually attributed to custom but Joyce Burnette here demonstrates …
The Origins of English Financial Markets
Investment and Speculation before the South Sea Bubble
Inbunden, 2009
1677 kr
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The late seventeenth century was a crucial period in English financial history. A host of joint-stock companies emerged offering the opportunity for investment in projects ranging from the manufacture of paper to the search for sunken treasure. Driven by the demands of the Nine Years' War, the …
Institutions and European Trade
Merchant Guilds, 1000-1800
Häftad, 2011
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586 kr
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What was the role of merchant guilds in the medieval and early modern economy? Does their wide prevalence and long survival mean they were efficient institutions that benefited the whole economy? Or did merchant guilds simply offer an effective way for the rich and powerful to increase their …
Institutions and European Trade
Merchant Guilds, 1000-1800
Inbunden, 2011
1761 kr
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What was the role of merchant guilds in the medieval and early modern economy? Does their wide prevalence and long survival mean they were efficient institutions that benefited the whole economy? Or did merchant guilds simply offer an effective way for the rich and powerful to increase their …
Private and Public Enterprise in Europe
Energy, Telecommunications and Transport, 1830-1990
Inbunden, 2005
2146 kr
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This 2005 book is a comparative history of the economic organisation of energy, telecommunications and transport in Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It examines the role that private and public enterprise have played in the construction and operation of the railways, electricity, …
Childhood and Child Labour in the British Industrial Revolution
Inbunden, 2010
2214 kr
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This is a unique account of working-class childhood during the British industrial revolution, first published in 2010. Using more than 600 autobiographies written by working men of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Jane Humphries illuminates working-class childhood in contexts untouched by …
Making the Market
Victorian Origins of Corporate Capitalism
Av Paul Johnson
Inbunden, 2010
1610 kr
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Corporate capitalism was invented in nineteenth-century Britain; most of the market institutions that we take for granted today - limited companies, shares, stock markets, accountants, financial newspapers - were Victorian creations. So were the moral codes, the behavioural assumptions, the rules …
Slavery, Family, and Gentry Capitalism in the British Atlantic
The World of the Lascelles, 1648-1834
Av S. D. Smith
Inbunden, 2006
1928 kr
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From the mid-seventeenth century to the 1830s, successful gentry capitalists created an extensive business empire centered on slavery in the West Indies, but inter-linked with North America, Africa, and Europe. S. D. Smith examines the formation of this British Atlantic World from the perspective …
Market Services and the Productivity Race, 1850-2000
British Performance in International Perspective
Inbunden, 2006
1777 kr
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Now that services account for such a dominant part of economic activity, it has become apparent that achieving high levels of productivity in the economy requires high levels of productivity in services. This book offers a major reassessment of Britain's comparative productivity performance over …
Heroes of Invention
Technology, Liberalism and British Identity, 1750-1914
Inbunden, 2007
2130 kr
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This innovative study adopts a distinct perspective on both the industrial revolution and nineteenth-century British culture. It investigates why inventors rose to heroic stature and popular acclaim in Victorian Britain, attested by numerous monuments, biographies and honours, and contends there …
Gender, Work and Wages in Industrial Revolution Britain
Inbunden, 2008
1928 kr
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A major study of the role of women in the labour market of Industrial Revolution Britain. It is well known that men and women usually worked in different occupations, and that women earned lower wages than men. These differences are usually attributed to custom but Joyce Burnette here demonstrates …
Food, Energy and the Creation of Industriousness
Work and Material Culture in Agrarian England, 1550-1780
Inbunden, 2011
1887 kr
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Until the widespread harnessing of machine energy, food was the energy which fuelled the economy. In this groundbreaking 2011 study of agricultural labourers' diet and material standard of living, Craig Muldrew uses empirical research to present a much fuller account of the interrelationship …
Entertainment Industrialised
The Emergence of the International Film Industry, 1890-1940
Inbunden, 2008
1610 kr
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Entertainment Industrialised was the first study to compare the emergence and economic development of the film industry in Britain, France and the United States between 1890 and 1940. Gerben Bakker investigates the commercialisation and industrialisation of live entertainment in the nineteenth …
Sovereignty without Power
Liberia in the Age of Empires, 1822–1980
Häftad, 2025
519 kr
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What did independence mean during the age of empires? How did independent governments balance different interests when they made policies about trade, money and access to foreign capital? Sovereignty without Power tells the story of Liberia, one of the few African countries to maintain independence …
Sovereignty without Power
Liberia in the Age of Empires, 1822-1980
Inbunden, 2022
1391 kr
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What did independence mean during the age of empires? How did independent governments balance different interests when they made policies about trade, money and access to foreign capital? Sovereignty without Power tells the story of Liberia, one of the few African countries to maintain independence …
Capital Shortage
Credit and Indian Economic Development, 1920-1960
Av Maanik Nath
Häftad, 2025
479 kr
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The great majority of the population in colonial and postcolonial India lived in the countryside and were poor. Many were unable to find gainful work outside agriculture and remained dependent on a livelihood that provided only subsistence, and a precarious one. Seeking the roots of persistent …
Capital Shortage
Credit and Indian Economic Development, 1920-1960
Av Maanik Nath
Inbunden, 2023
1640 kr
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The great majority of the population in colonial and postcolonial India lived in the countryside and were poor. Many were unable to find gainful work outside agriculture and remained dependent on a livelihood that provided only subsistence, and a precarious one. Seeking the roots of persistent …
Imperial Borderlands
Institutions and Legacies of the Habsburg Military Frontier
Inbunden, 2023
1509 kr
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What are the institutions which govern border spaces and how do they impact long-term economic and social development? This book focuses on the Habsburg military frontier zone which originated in the sixteenth century as an instrument for protecting the empire's southern border against the threat …
Imperial Borderlands
Institutions and Legacies of the Habsburg Military Frontier
Häftad, 2025
479 kr
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What are the institutions which govern border spaces and how do they impact long-term economic and social development? This book focuses on the Habsburg military frontier zone which originated in the sixteenth century as an instrument for protecting the empire's southern border against the threat …
Institutional Change and Property Rights before the Industrial Revolution
Wardship in Britain, 1485-1660
Inbunden, 2025
1610 kr
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Secure property rights are widely considered to be an essential prerequisite for sustained economic development; in Britain it is debated whether they have been secure since the medieval period or only established in the mid-seventeenth century. Within this context, Sean Bottomley examines wardship …
Philip II of Spain and the Power of Money
Between Parliament and Bankers
Av Carlos Álvarez-Nogal, Christophe Chamley
Inbunden, 2026
1576 kr
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This is a study of the financial system that sustained the sixteenth-century empire of Philip II of Spain. Detailing the links between royal revenue sources, trade fairs, credit market, long-term debt, and contracts with Genoese bankers, it reveals how Philip's financial and military strategy …
Before Banks
The Making of Credit and Debt in Preindustrial France
Inbunden, 2025
1526 kr
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This innovative work delves into the world of ordinary early modern women and men and their relationship with credit and debt. Elise Dermineur focuses on the rural seigneuries of Delle and Florimont in the south of Alsace, where rich archival documents allow for a fine cross-analysis of credit …
Age of Paper
The Bank Note, Communal Currency and British Society, 1790s–1830s
Av Hiroki Shin
Inbunden, 2025
1526 kr
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In the first detailed examination of Britain's transition to paper currency, Hiroki Shin explores how state, nation and community each played their respective role in its introduction. By examining archival materials and personal accounts, Shin's work sheds fresh light on societal, institutional, …
