People, Markets, Goods: Economies and Societies in History – serie
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Money and Markets
Essays in Honour of Martin Daunton
Av Julian Hoppit, Duncan Needham m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
409 kr
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This book explores the changing boundaries and relationships between market and state from the seventeenth to the twentieth century.Money and Markets celebrates Martin Daunton's distinguished career by bringing together essays from leading economic, social and cultural historians, many being …
Crises in Economic and Social History
A Comparative Perspective
Av A.T. Brown, Andy Burn m. fl.
Häftad, 2015
450 kr
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Exploring how crises have shaped economic and social life from the thirteenth century to the twenty-first.This collection of essays brings together historians examining social and economic crises from the thirteenth century to the twenty-first. Crisis is an almost ubiquitous concept for historians, …
Slavery Hinterland
Transatlantic Slavery and Continental Europe, 1680-1850
Häftad, 2016
365 kr
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Contributors from the US, Britain and Europe explore a neglected aspect of transatlantic slavery: the implication of a continental European hinterland.Slavery Hinterland explores a neglected aspect of transatlantic slavery: the implication of a continental European hinterland. It focuses on …
Almshouses in Early Modern England
Charitable Housing in the Mixed Economy of Welfare, 1550-1725
Häftad, 2017
409 kr
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Addresses a neglected element of English welfare history, examining the role and significance of English almshouses in the period 1550 - 1725 and the contribution they made within the developing welfare systems of the timeAlmshouses providing accommodation for poor people are a common feature of …
People, Places and Business Cultures
Essays in Honour of Francesca Carnevali
Av Paolo Di Martino, Andrew Popp m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
408 kr
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Inspired by the work and legacy of Francesca Carnevali, this collection brings together new research into nineteenth- and twentieth-century British and European economic history, socio-cultural history and business history.This collection brings together new research into nineteenth- and …
Cameralism in Practice
State Administration and Economy in Early Modern Europe
Häftad, 2017
385 kr
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The first book that acknowledges cameralism as a European rather than just a German historical phenomenon.This book discusses the impact of cameralism on the practices of governance, early modern state-building and economy in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe. It argues that the cameralist …
Servants in Rural Europe
1400-1900
Av Jane Whittle
Häftad, 2017
365 kr
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This is the first book to survey the experience of servants in rural Europe from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century.This is the first book to survey the experience of servants in rural Europe from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century. Live-in servants were a distinctive element of early …
Age of Machinery
Engineering the Industrial Revolution, 1770-1850
Häftad, 2018
389 kr
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An engagingly written account of textile engineering in its key northern centres, rich with historical narrative and analysis.The engineers who built the first generations of modern textile machines, between 1770 and 1850, pushed at the boundaries of possibility. This book investigates these …
Shoplifting in Eighteenth-Century England
Häftad, 2018
309 kr
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As a new consumer culture took root in eighteenth-century England and shops proliferated, the crime of shoplifting leaped to public prominence.Shoplifting in Eighteenth-Century England examines the nature and impact on society of this commercial crime at a time of rapid retail expansion during the …
Women and the Land, 1500-1900
Av Amanda L. Capern, Briony McDonagh m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
409 kr
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Women and the Land examines English women's legal rights to land and the reality and consequences of their land ownership over four centuries.Women and the Land examines the pre-history of gendered property relations in England, focusing on the four-hundred-year period between roughly 1500 and …
Globalized Peripheries
Central Europe and the Atlantic World, 1680-1860
Häftad, 2020
365 kr
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Globalized Peripheries examines the commodity flows and financial ties within Central and Eastern Europe in order to situate these regions as important contributors to Atlantic trade networks.The early modern Atlantic world, with its flows of bullion, of free and unfree labourers, of colonial …
Financing Cotton
British Industrial Growth and Decline, 1780-2000
Av Steven Toms
Häftad, 2020
389 kr
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This book links the world of finance directly to the fate of the cotton and textile industry, long a metaphor for the rise and fall of Britain as a manufacturing economy, for the first time.The cotton and textile industry, at the centre of the industrial revolution, has long been a metaphor for the …
Quakers in the British Atlantic World, c.1660-1800
Av Esther Sahle
Häftad, 2021
345 kr
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Examines the two largest Quaker communities in the early modern British Atlantic World, and scrutinizes the role of Quaker merchants and the business ethics they followed.The book studies the two largest Quaker communities in the early modern British Atlantic World, London and Philadelphia. It …
Great Famine in Ireland and Britain’s Financial Crisis
Av Charles Read
Häftad, 2022
423 kr
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Rich in archival detail and offering a ground-breaking analysis, this book presents a radically new interpretation of British politics and policy failings during the Great Famine.The Irish famine of the 1840s is the biggest humanitarian crisis in the United Kingdom's history. Within six years of …
Family Firms in Postwar Britain and Germany
Competing Approaches to Business
Häftad, 2023
409 kr
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Examines the culture and conduct of six small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in England and West Germany from 1945 to the late-1970s, drawing on numerous archives in Germany and Britain.This is the first book length study that examines the detailed histories of SMEs in a comparative, …
Labour Laws in Preindustrial Europe
The Coercion and Regulation of Wage Labour, c.1350-1850
Av Jane, Whittle, Jane Whittle m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
365 kr
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Explores the variety of legal and regulatory regimes that existed in Western Europe to control labour and how workers experienced those controls. Many economic historians have assumed that labour in Western Europe was 'free' after the end of serfdom in the fifteenth century. These assumptions are …
Financial Failure in Early Modern England
Häftad, 2024
276 kr
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Analyses how bankruptcy was litigated within the court to gain a more nuanced understanding of early modern bankruptcy.This book examines cases involving bankruptcy brought before the court of Chancery - a court of equity which dealt with civil disputes - between 1674 and 1750. It uncovers the …
Capitalism: Histories
Av Robert G. Ingram, James M. Vaughn
Häftad, 2025
340 kr
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Charts the emergence and development of capitalism across the world from a variety of perspectives, providing a deep understanding of how capitalism came to be the dominant economic force.This book re-examines the historical emergence and evolution of capitalism. Why did a radically new way of …
Mobility, Belonging and Identity in Freetown during the Era of Abolition
Häftad, 2026
418 kr
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Depicts Freetown not as a society defined solely by 'Liberated Africans', but as a diverse urban world where multiple populations negotiated identity, belonging and opportunity.This book is a social history of Freetown in the British colony of Sierra Leone during the mid‑nineteenth century, a …
Political Economy of Ghana in the Long Twentieth Century
1891-2011
Av Gareth Austin, Kofi Adjepong-Boateng
Häftad, 2026
450 kr
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A major study of modern Ghana's political economy, tracing how cocoa shaped the country's economic transformation, political change and enduring inequalities.This is the first study of the interaction of politics and economics of Ghana across the whole 'cocoa era', the period from when the country …
Landlords and Tenants in Britain, 1440-1660
Tawney's Agrarian Problem Revisited
Av Jane Whittle
Häftad, 2013
309 kr
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Provides for a new interpretation of the agrarian economy in late Tudor and early modern Britain.This volume revisits a classic book by a famous historian: R.H. Tawney's Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century (1912). Tawney's Agrarian Problem surveyed landlord-tenant relations in England between …
Child Workers and Industrial Health in Britain, 1780-1850
Av Peter Kirby
Häftad, 2013
309 kr
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A comprehensive study of the occupational health of employed children within the broader context of social, industrial and environmental change between 1780 and 1850.Historians have long recognised the importance of child health during the Industrial Revolution, but few have explored the health of …
Publishing Business in Eighteenth-Century England
Av James Raven
Häftad, 2014
389 kr
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Many more people encountered newspapers, business press products or jobbing print than the glamorous books of the Enlightenment. This book looks at the way in which print effected a business revolution.Publishing Business in Eighteenth-Century England assesses the contribution of the business press …
Population, Welfare and Economic Change in Britain, 1290-1834
Av Chris Briggs, P.M. Kitson m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
411 kr
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Presents the latest research on the causes and consequences of British population change from the medieval period to the eve of the Industrial Revolution, in both town and countrysidePopulation, Welfare and Economic Change presents the latest research on the causes and consequences of British …
First Century of Welfare
Poverty and Poor Relief in Lancashire, 1620-1730
Häftad, 2014
391 kr
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The first major regional study of poverty and its relief in the seventeenth century: the first century of welfare.The English 'Old Poor Law' was the first national system of tax-funded social welfare in the world. It provided a safety net for hundreds of thousands of paupers at a time of very …
