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Agrarian Change and Economic Development
The Historical Problems
Av E.L. Jones, S.J. Woolf
Inbunden, 2005
2208 kr
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Agrarian Change and Economic Development is a landmark volume that examines the historical experience of the relationship between agrarian change and economic development.Because agriculture was until recently man's dominant occupation, scholars have traditionally drawn little attention to its …
Agrarian Problems in the Sixteenth Century and After
Inbunden, 2005
3173 kr
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Presenting a full and precise description of all legal ties between landlord and tenant in early modern England, Agrarian Problems in the Sixteenth Century and After re-examines one of the key issues in English agrarian history - the question of the legal security of the copyholder. Comparing …
Agricultural Fluctuations in Europe
From the Thirteenth to twentieth centuries
Av Wilhelm Abel
Inbunden, 2005
3173 kr
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Wilhelm Abel's study of economic fluctuations over a period of seven hundred years has long been established as a core text in European agricultural history. Professor Abel was one of the first economic historians to make extensive use of statistical data, and his scholarship and approach have had …
British Agriculture
1875-1914
Av P J Perry
Inbunden, 2005
2600 kr
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Profound Changes took place in British Agriculture between 1875 and 1914. After the prosperous years of the mid-nineteenth century came a period of difficulty for landowners and farmers, with falling prices, lower rents and untenanted farms. Previously attributed to bad seasons and increased food …
Crisis and Change in the Venetian Economy in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Av Brian Pullan
Inbunden, 2005
3173 kr
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The decline of Venice remains one of the classic episodes in the economic development of modern Europe. Its contrasts are familiar enough: the wealthiest commercial power in fifteenth-century Europe, the strongest western colonial power in the eastern Mediterranean, found its principal fame three …
Economy and Society in Early Modern Europe
Essays from Annales
Av Peter Burke
Inbunden, 2005
3173 kr
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In 1929 two French historians, Lucien Febvre and Marc Bloch, founded Annales, a historical journal which rapidly became one of the most influential in the world. They believed that economic history, social history and the history of ideas were as important as political history, and that historians …
English Peasant Farming
The Agrarian history of Lincolnshire from Tudor to Recent Times
Av Joan Thirsk
Inbunden, 2005
3173 kr
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English society until the mid-eighteenth century was a predominantly rural and a peasant society. Yet we know surprisingly little about peasant life. This volume originally published in 1957, presents the agrarian history of Lincolnshire from Tudor to recent times.
Growth of the Athenian Economy
Av A French
Inbunden, 2005
3173 kr
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First Published in 2005. Between the early sixth and the late fifth century a transformation took place in the fortunes of Athens. Unimportant in the affairs of Greece at the beginning of the sixth century she drew her livelihood from a peasant economy which had become depressed and chaotic. A …
History of English Corn Laws, A
From 1660-1846
Inbunden, 2005
1032 kr
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First Published in 2005. A history of the English Corn Laws 1660-1846 is part of the studies in Economic and Social History series and looks at how the Corn Laws regulated the internal trade, exportation and importation and market development from the twelfth to the eighteenth centuries.
Medieval Merchant Venturers
Collected Studies
Inbunden, 2005
3173 kr
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First published in 1967, this superb collection of essays on trade in the Middle Ages has been a major contribution to modern medieval studies. Professor Carus-Wilson examines:* fifteenth-century Bristol* trade with Iceland* the Merchant Adventurers of London* the thirteenth-century cloth industry …
Social and Economic History of Medieval Europe
Inbunden, 2005
3927 kr
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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 …
Open-Field Farming in Medieval Europe
A Study of Village By-laws
Av Warren Ault
Inbunden, 2005
2208 kr
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This book presents a detailed account of the co-operative practice of agriculture in medieval England, shedding much light on how medieval villagers governed their own affairs. During this period co-operation was essential in ploughing, sowing and reaping, with communal control of the pasturing of …
Economic and Social History of Medieval Europe
Inbunden, 2005
3173 kr
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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.
Realms of Silver
One Hundred Years of Banking in the East
Inbunden, 2005
3173 kr
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Originally published in 1954 this volume looks at the difficulties encountered by the founders of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China in seeking, a hundred years ago, to establish the awakening countries of the East, British standard of financial probity and commercial integrity and …
London Weaver's Company 1600 - 1970
Inbunden, 2005
3173 kr
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The Worshipful Company of Weavers, the oldest of all the London Livery Companies, can trace its origins to a twelfth-century craft guild. Largely based upon original records never before studied in depth, this authorized history of the company covers the period from the end of the reign of …
W.D. & H.O. Wills and the development of the UK tobacco Industry
1786-1965
Av B.W.E Alford
Inbunden, 2005
3173 kr
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This independent and critical study in economic and social history is based on free access to the records of W.D. & H.O. Wills. Dr Alford traces the history of the firm from its origin to its transformation into a constituent part of a larger company. Having played such a leading role in the …
Rise of the Corporate Economy
Inbunden, 2005
3173 kr
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First published in 1976, this much acclaimed book looks at the story of how today's large corporations have superseded the small competing firms of the nineteenth century. The long-run analysis confirms that the crucial periods in the formulation of the modern corporate system were the 1920's and …
Anti-Corn Law League
1838-1846
Inbunden, 2005
3173 kr
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Although the Anti-Corn Law league played a most important part in the politics of the 1840's, there is no modern study of its activities and organization. Based on several years work on the original sources, as well as papers belonging to George Wilson, President of the League for most of its life, …
Malthusian Controversy
Inbunden, 2005
3082 kr
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This book, first published in 1951, focuses on the hitherto ignored contemporary critics of Malthus, giving them the attention they so rightly deserve.Dr Smith traces the Malthusian controversy step by step, from 1798, the date of the First Essay, to the death of Malthus in 1834. Investigating the …
Commercial Crises of the Nineteenth Century
Av H.M. Hyndman
Inbunden, 2005
3173 kr
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Introduction Chapter 1. The crisis of 1815 Chapter 2. The crisis of 1825 Chapter 3. The crisis of 1836-1839 Chapter 4. The crisis of 1847 Chapter 5. The crisis of 1857 Chapter 6. The crisis of 1866 Chapter 7. The crisis of 1873 Chapter 8. The crisis of 1882 Chapter 9. The crisis of 1890 Chapter 10. …
Documents of the Industrial Revolution 1750-1850
Select Economic and Social Documents for Sixth forms
Inbunden, 2005
3173 kr
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This fascinating collection presents industrialization as a total historical process involving the destruction of one world simultaneously with the creation of another. Divided into two sections, it deals with elements of life such as the organization of labour, the health of the nation, rural and …
Industrial Revolution in the Eighteenth Century
An outline of the beginnings of the modern factory system in England
Av Paul Mantoux
Inbunden, 2005
3173 kr
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This classic volume, first published in 1928, is a comprehensive introduction to all aspects of the Industrial Revolution. Arranged in three distinct parts, it covers:* Preparatory Changes* Inventions and Factories* The Immediate Consequences.A valuable reference, it is, as Professor T. S. Ashton …
Living Through the Industrial Revolution
Inbunden, 2005
3173 kr
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First published in 1966, this revealing study looks closely into the lives of the men, women and children working in mines, workshops, factories and farms during the industrial revolution. It investigates the inventors whose new machines made the industrial revolution possible, and reflects on the …
Industrial History of Modern England
Inbunden, 2005
2208 kr
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First Published in 2005. The purpose of this title is to outline the facts and to interpret the spirit of the economic history of Britain one hundred and fifty years prior to original publication. The author chose to focus within such limits of social transformation and, from this, they then …
Economic History of England 1870-1939
Inbunden, 2005
2208 kr
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This is a comprehensive account of a decisive epoch in England's economic development by a leading economic historian.'Works of economic history often get bogged dwon in figures - so many machines, so much unemployment, often, too, they are histories of technology, not of economic organization. …
Essays on a Mature Economy: Britain After 1840
Papers and Proceedings on the New Economic History of Britain 1840-1930
Inbunden, 2005
2208 kr
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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 …
Economic History of England: the Eighteenth Century
Av T.S. Ashton
Inbunden, 2005
3173 kr
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T.S. Ashton has sought less to cover the field of economic history in detail than to offer a commentary, with a stress on trends of development rather than on forms of organization or economic legislation.This book seeks to interpret the growth of population, agriculture, maufacture, trade and …
Aspects of Capital Investment in Great Britain 1750-1850
A preliminary survey, report of a conference held the University of Sheffield, 5-7 January 1969
Inbunden, 2005
3173 kr
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These six papers were originally delivered to a conference at Sheffield University in 1969 and represent an overview of a research project led by Professor Pollard, which aimed to construct a series of annual figures of capital formation for the Industrial Revolution in Britain - both in aggregate …
Finance of British Industry, 1918-1976
Av W.A. Thomas
Inbunden, 2005
3927 kr
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How has British industry financed itself in the past? With the current debate on industry's financial strategy, this study of the past sixty years is a particularly timely contribution to the discussions on the future financing of industry. This book gives, for the inter-war years, a detailed …
Rise of Merchant Banking
Inbunden, 2005
3173 kr
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This is the first serious history of merchant banking, based on the archives of the leading houses and the records of their activities throughout the world. It combines scholarly insight with readability, and offers a totally new assessment of the origins of one of the most dynamic sectors of the …
