Perspectives in Economic and Social History
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Sanitation in Urban Britain, 1560-1700
1st Edition
By Leona J. Skelton
September 30, 2020
Popular belief holds that throwing the contents of a chamber pot into the street was a common occurrence during the early modern period. This book challenges this deeply entrenched stereotypical image as the majority of urban inhabitants and their local governors alike valued clean outdoor public ...
Small and Medium Powers in Global History: Trade, Conflicts, and Neutrality from the 18th to the 20th Centuries
1st Edition
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By Jari Eloranta, Eric Golson, Peter Hedberg, Maria Cristina Moreira
September 30, 2020
This volume brings together a leading group of scholars to offer a new perspective on the history of conflicts and trade, focusing on the role of small and medium, or "weak", and often neutral states. Existing historiography has often downplayed the importance of such states in world trade, during ...
A History of Professional Economists and Policymaking in the United States: Irrelevant genius
1st Edition
By Jonathan S. Franklin
December 12, 2019
Over the course of the twentieth century, professional economists have become a feature in the policymaking process and have slowly changed the way we think about work, governance, and economic justice. However, they have also been a frustrating, paradoxical, and in recent years, controversial ...
Merchants and Trade Networks in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, 1550-1800: Connectors of commercial maritime systems
1st Edition
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By Manuel Sánchez, Klemens Kaps
December 12, 2019
This collective volume explores the ways merchants managed to connect different spaces all over the globe in the early modern period by organizing the movement of goods, capital, information and cultural objects between different commercial maritime systems in the Mediterranean and Atlantic basin. ...
Property Rights in Land: Issues in social, economic and global history
1st Edition
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By Rosa Congost, Jorge Gelman, Rui Santos
December 12, 2019
Property Rights in Land widens our understanding of property rights by looking through the lenses of social history and sociology, discussing mainstream theory of new institutional economics and the derived grand narrative of economic development. As neo-institutional development theory has become...
Rural-Urban Relationships in the Nineteenth Century: Uneasy neighbours?
1st Edition
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By Mary Hammond, Barry Sloan
December 12, 2019
The essays in this collection seek to challenge accepted scholarship on the rural-urban divide. Using case studies from the UK, Europe and America, contributors examine complex rural-urban relationships of conflict and cooperation. The volume will be of interest to those researching society and ...
The Economic and Business History of Occupied Japan: New Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Thomas French
December 12, 2019
The Occupation era (1945-1952) witnessed major change in Japan and the beginnings of its growth from of the ashes of defeat towards its status as a developmental model for much of the world. The period arguably saw the sowing of the seeds of the post-war flowering of what some term the ‘postwar ...
Working-Class Community in the Age of Affluence
1st Edition
By Stefan Ramsden
December 12, 2019
It has appeared to many commentators that the most fundamental change in what it is meant to be working-class in twentieth-century Britain came not as a result of war or of want, but of prosperity. Social investigators documented how the relative affluence of the 1950s and 1960s improved the ...
Culture, Philanthropy and the Poor in Late-Victorian London
1st Edition
By Geoffrey A. C. Ginn
June 06, 2019
2018 Choice Outstanding Academic Title ******************************** The Late-Victorian cultural mission to London’s slums was a peculiar effort towards social reform that today is largely forgotten or misunderstood. The philanthropy of middle and upper-class social workers saw hundreds of art ...
A History of Drink and the English, 1500–2000
1st Edition
By Paul Jennings
May 24, 2017
This book is an introduction to the history of alcoholic drink in England from the end of the Middle Ages to the present day. Treating the subject thematically, it covers who drank, what they drank, how much, who produced and sold drink, the places where it was enjoyed and the meanings which ...
Barriers to Competition: The Evolution of the Debate
1st Edition
By Ana Rosado Cubero
January 20, 2016
Focuses on the different methods that economic science has employed in order to detect and measure barriers to entry. This book presents a chronological analysis of competing Harvard and Chicago Schools' interpretations of this phenomenon....
Commercial Networks and European Cities, 1400–1800
1st Edition
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By Andrea Caracausi, Christof Jeggle
January 20, 2016
Merchant networks generated trade and the exchange of goods between the cities of early modern Europe. This collection of essays analyses these commercial networks, focusing on the roles of kinship, origin, religion and business in creating and maintaining urban economies....