This book offers a new understanding of the main economic and political trends of 20th-century Britain, through the lens of Churchills early career and approach to industrialisation....Loe edasi...
A quantitative and qualitative study of dairy consumption in Spain since 1950 to explore the history of diet change and its consequences on society....Loe edasi...
This book traces 300 years of sumos economic and social history, examining how it survived and evolved through major historical upheavals including the Great Fire of Edo, the Meiji Restoration, and World War II. It explores how sumo developed as im...Loe edasi...
This edited collection presents an interdisciplinary assessment of the impact of migration on knowledge transmission and entrepreneurial innovation. Focusing on Italian...Loe edasi...
This book offers a comprehensive and authoritative survey of the tontine, an innovative financial instrument conceived and implemented in various settings throughout Georgian and early Victorian Britain. The book draws on metic...Loe edasi...
This is a comprehensive guide to measuring the performance of the Chinese economy in historical context, bridging the gap between economic methods and economic history to showcase the cutting edge of quantitative Chinese economic history research....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526197979)
For the Victorian working class, lodging in someone elses home was commonplace. Drawing on hundreds of coroners inquests reported in the Victorian press, Living with lodgers traverses Englands domestic dwelling lodgings, providing an intimate portra...Loe edasi...
Korea is a historical region of prominence in the global political economy. Still, a comprehensive overview of its early modern era has yet to receive a book-length treatment in English. Comprising topical chapters written by 22 experts from 11 co...Loe edasi...
The book will appeal to scholars and students alike interested in identity formation and expression in the Byzantine provinces, as well as those researching the social history of the poor in Byzantium, and the mechanisms of hierarchies, social margi...Loe edasi...
This handbook highlights the essential issues and debates of cooperatives and provides a future research agenda, outlining the distinctions and similarities between individual and (inter)organizational cooperation, and explores the connections of co...Loe edasi...
Emphasizing the emergence of new institutional realities from the encounter between colonizers and colonized people, this book highlights the capacity of indigenous communities, as well as settlers themselves, to shape and transform laws and legal f...Loe edasi...
Starting from the idea that economic relations are all social relations, and every economic fact is first a social fact, this book explores one of the crucial problems within economic science: how to incorporate the social dimension into the study o...Loe edasi...
The Adam Smith Review is a rigorously refereed annual review that provides a unique forum for interdisciplinary debate on all aspects of Adam Smith’s works, his place in history, and the significance of his writings to the modern world....Loe edasi...
Continuity and Change in Medieval East Central Europe explores the crucial societal, political, and cultural dynamics that defined medieval East Central Europe during the early and high Middle Ages....Loe edasi...
Exploring the movement of peoples, perfumes, and spices across vast distances in this period of medieval history across Asia, the Middle East, and Europe, this book examines the role of Arab merchants in trade between and among the Caliphal and Ca...Loe edasi...
John Maynard Keynes is best known for his contributions to economics, yet he spent nearly two decades exploring the concept of probability. His extensive work culminated in the Treatise on Probability (1921), where he developed a unique notion of pr...Loe edasi...
From the last decades of the seventeenth century until the beginning of the twentieth, the tontine, in one form or another, was a ubiquitous financial instrument. As a revenue-raising tool of governments it supported the cost of war, and as a priv...Loe edasi...
This book analyses the atypical history and conditions of the Mediterranean region in contradistinction with other regions as an explanation for how and why free ports arose there....Loe edasi...
In the immediate post-war period and throughout the 1950s and 1960s, the OEEC-OECD constituted an intergovernmental forum for determining policy for the reconstruction and integration of European economies, and addressing significant issues of under...Loe edasi...
This book uncovers the history of the concession stand in American moviegoing, which was coined The Second Box Office by trade press magazines in the 1930s, such was its importance to the economic viability of movie theatres. Even today, it is not...Loe edasi...
Milton Friedman, Rose D. Friedman, Sebastian Edwards
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226848334)
The story of Rose and Milton Friedman’s incredible lives and influential work told in their own words, now with a new foreword by Sebastian Edwards. In Two Lucky People, Rose and Milton Friedman provide a memorable and lively...Loe edasi...
In 1936 John Maynard Keynes published a book that he believed would revolutionize the way the world thinks about economic problems: The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money. Although the book became the foundation of a particular appr...Loe edasi...
This book offers a comprehensive exploration of Medans development, blending rigorous research with narrative flair to recreate the historical ambience of the city and its people. Divided into three sections, the book delves into the evolution of M...Loe edasi...
This book provides a succinct history of a medium-sized silk-weaving firm, Grout & Co, concentrating on the Canadian branch plant it set up following the First World War and operated for three decades. Extraordinarily full records of this proto-mult...Loe edasi...
This book offers a comprehensive and interdisciplinary examination of how complexity emerges, transforms, and accelerates across the entire 13.8-billion-year history of the Universe. It brings together chapters from leading researchers to explore th...Loe edasi...
This Palgrave Pivot aims to present a research-based, accessible analysis of the inner workings of the London stock exchange during the Georgian period....Loe edasi...
This open access volume explores the history of short-term employment and precarious work in pre-industrial Northern Europe. Contrary to popular belief, stable, long-term employmentpotentially lasting decadeswas uncommon in Northern Europe until the...Loe edasi...
Between the 1830s and 1930s, companies established by Beirut-based businessmen emerged among the largest shareholders in major British manufacturing and trading companies. These companies transformed from small family partnerships to large sharehold...Loe edasi...
Sari: Stanford Ottoman World Series: Critical Studies in Empire, Nature, and Knowledge
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503645967)
Between the 1830s and 1930s, companies established by Beirut-based businessmen emerged among the largest shareholders in major British manufacturing and trading companies. These companies transformed from small family partnerships to large shareho...Loe edasi...
This book offers a new understanding of the main economic and political trends of 20th-century Britain, through the lens of Churchills early career and approach to industrialisation....Loe edasi...
A quantitative and qualitative study of dairy consumption in Spain since 1950 to explore the history of diet change and its consequences on society....Loe edasi...
The pre-eminent exponent of anti-monopoly law explains why we have no option but to break Big Techs monopolies and that doing so would unleash innovation and growth. Wu deftly breaks down one of the greatest challenges of our age KAREN HA...Loe edasi...
Over the last 500 years, capitalism has produced a world that is highly interdependent and at the same time highly asymmetrical. These asymmetries were often established by violent means and are in many cases vigorously defended to this day. In his...Loe edasi...
This book traces 300 years of sumos economic and social history, examining how it survived and evolved through major historical upheavals including the Great Fire of Edo, the Meiji Restoration, and World War II. It explores how sumo developed as im...Loe edasi...
This edited collection presents an interdisciplinary assessment of the impact of migration on knowledge transmission and entrepreneurial innovation. Focusing on Italian...Loe edasi...
This book offers a comprehensive and authoritative survey of the tontine, an innovative financial instrument conceived and implemented in various settings throughout Georgian and early Victorian Britain. The book draws on metic...Loe edasi...
This is a comprehensive guide to measuring the performance of the Chinese economy in historical context, bridging the gap between economic methods and economic history to showcase the cutting edge of quantitative Chinese economic history research....Loe edasi...
A Financial Times Most Anticipated Book of 2025A sweeping, dramatic history of capitalism as seen through the eyes of its fiercest critics. Capitalism has long been understood as a driving force behind the bigg...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526197979)
For the Victorian working class, lodging in someone elses home was commonplace. Drawing on hundreds of coroners inquests reported in the Victorian press, Living with lodgers traverses Englands domestic dwelling lodgings, providing an intimate portra...Loe edasi...
Korea is a historical region of prominence in the global political economy. Still, a comprehensive overview of its early modern era has yet to receive a book-length treatment in English. Comprising topical chapters written by 22 experts from 11 co...Loe edasi...
The book will appeal to scholars and students alike interested in identity formation and expression in the Byzantine provinces, as well as those researching the social history of the poor in Byzantium, and the mechanisms of hierarchies, social margi...Loe edasi...
This handbook highlights the essential issues and debates of cooperatives and provides a future research agenda, outlining the distinctions and similarities between individual and (inter)organizational cooperation, and explores the connections of co...Loe edasi...
Emphasizing the emergence of new institutional realities from the encounter between colonizers and colonized people, this book highlights the capacity of indigenous communities, as well as settlers themselves, to shape and transform laws and legal f...Loe edasi...
Starting from the idea that economic relations are all social relations, and every economic fact is first a social fact, this book explores one of the crucial problems within economic science: how to incorporate the social dimension into the study o...Loe edasi...
The Adam Smith Review is a rigorously refereed annual review that provides a unique forum for interdisciplinary debate on all aspects of Adam Smith’s works, his place in history, and the significance of his writings to the modern world....Loe edasi...
Continuity and Change in Medieval East Central Europe explores the crucial societal, political, and cultural dynamics that defined medieval East Central Europe during the early and high Middle Ages....Loe edasi...
Exploring the movement of peoples, perfumes, and spices across vast distances in this period of medieval history across Asia, the Middle East, and Europe, this book examines the role of Arab merchants in trade between and among the Caliphal and Ca...Loe edasi...
John Maynard Keynes is best known for his contributions to economics, yet he spent nearly two decades exploring the concept of probability. His extensive work culminated in the Treatise on Probability (1921), where he developed a unique notion of pr...Loe edasi...
