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  • - The case of the Gold Coast
    av Klas Roennback
    2 288,-

    Sub-Saharan Africa is the poorest region in the world. But its current status has skewed our understanding of the economy before colonization. Ronnback reconstructs the living standards of the population at a time when the Atlantic slave trade brought money and men into the area, enriching our understanding of West African economic development.

  • - Natural History in the Making, 1550-1610
    av Florike Egmond
    769 - 1 861,-

  • - Trade, Conflicts, and Neutrality from the 18th to the 20th Centuries
     
    1 779,-

  • - Work, Technology and their Ecologies in an Age of Early Capitalism
    av Safley Thomas Max
    1 741,-

    Many of the current debates about economic development leading to industrialization fail to directly engage with labor. This collection of essays strives to correct this oversight and to reintroduce labor into the great debates about capitalist development and economic growth before the Industrial Revolution.

  • av Galina Ulianova
    837 - 1 882,-

  • - The London Food Market, 1800-1855
    av Robyn S. Metcalfe
    740 - 2 074,-

    This study examines the struggle between Smithfield market's supporters and detractors and argues that this demonstrates a major shift in the way the urban landscape came to be used.

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    2 343,-

    Luxury, Fashion and the Early Modern Idea of Credit addresses how social and cultural ideas about credit and trust were affected by the growth and development of the bankruptcy institution. This book is an essential read for scholars in economic history, financial history, social history and European history.

  • - New Cliometric Data
    av Cesar Yanez
    749 - 2 009,-

  • - Development of the Labour Market
    av Michael Heller
    744 - 1 945,-

    This study is based on a wide range of business sources as well as newspapers, journals, novels and oral history, allowing Heller to put forward a new interpretation of working conditions for London clerks, highlighting the ways in which clerical work changed and modernized over this period.

  • - The Value of Virtue
    av Lynn MacKay
    749 - 2 209,-

    The population of London soared during the Industrial Revolution and the poorer areas became iconic places of overcrowding and vice. Focusing on the communities of Westminster, MacKay shows that many of the plebeian populace retained traditional working-class pursuits, such as gambling, drinking and blood sports.

  • - Deviance, Surveillance and Morality
    av Catherine Lee
    749 - 2 009,-

    Focusing on the ports, dockyards and garrison towns of Kent, this study examines the social and economic factors that could cause a woman to turn to prostitution, and how such women were policed.

  • - An American Experience, 1870-1950
    av Mazie Hough
    744 - 2 009,-

  • av Siobhan Talbott
    749 - 2 209,-

    Using untapped archival sources from Britain, France and America, Talbott presents a comparative view of British relations with France over the long seventeenth century.

  • av Susan L. Tananbaum
    857 - 2 263,-

    Between 1880 and 1939, a quarter of a million European Jews settled in England. Tananbaum explores the differing ways in which the existing Anglo-Jewish communities, local government and education and welfare organizations sought to socialize these new arrivals, focusing on the experiences of working-class women and children.

  • - The Evolution of the Debate
    av Ana Rosado Cubero
    512 - 780,-

  • - Newcomers to Antwerp, 1760-1860
    av Ph.D. Winter & Dr. Anne
    744 - 1 882,-

  • av Serena Trowbridge
    2 163,-

    The nineteenth-century asylum was the scene of both terrible abuses and significant advancements in treatment and care. The essays in this collection look at the asylum from the perspective of the place itself - its architecture, funding and purpose - and at the experience of those who were sent there.

  • av Stuart Sweeney
    740 - 2 009,-

  • av Gail D. Triner
    749 - 2 009,-

    'Mining and the State' examines the fundamental economic institutional structure of Brazil through the prism of its mineral endowment.

  • - Eighteenth-Century Diamond Merchants
    av Tijl Vanneste
    740 - 1 945,-

    At the heart of this study on cross-cultural trade lies a concrete case-study of a network of diamond merchants operating in the early eighteenth century. All the traders examined in this study are outsiders: an English Catholic in Antwerp, Sephardic and Ashkenazi Jews in London and Amsterdam and French Huguenots in Lisbon.

  • av Alison Toplis
    744 - 2 074,-

    This detailed study is the first exploration of rural consumption of clothing in early nineteenth-century Britain. Drawing on evidence from a range of sources including newspapers, trade directories, court records, visual sources and surviving garments, Toplis investigates how the apparel of the mass of the British population was acquired.

  • - Managing Industrial Change
    av Carlo Morelli
    210,-

    By looking at the decline of the jute industry, this study assesses the successes and failures of Britain's managed economy. It also addresses broader arguments about the political economy of twentieth-century Britain.

  • - A Political and Economic Analysis
    av Justin Dargin & Tai-Wei Lim
    740 - 2 009,-

  • - Prostitutes, Emigration and Nation-Building
    av Bill Mihalopoulos
    744 - 2 009,-

    Based on archival research undertaken in Japan, Britain and the United States, Mihalopoulos offers a new perspective on the relations between gender hierarchies and the political economy in a newly modernized Japan.

  • av Victoria N. Bateman
    744 - 2 009,-

    This is the first study to analyze a wide spread of price data to determine whether market development led to economic growth in the early modern period.

  • - Politics and Cultural Conflict in British Society, 1968-1998
    av Brett Bebber
    740 - 2 009,-

  • - Negotiating Power in a Burgh Society
    av J. R. D. Falconer
    749 - 1 945,-

    Based on church and state records from the burgh of Aberdeen, this study explores the deeper social meaning behind petty crime during the Reformation. Falconer argues that an analysis of both criminal behaviour and law enforcement provides a unique view into the workings of an early modern urban Scottish community.

  • - Belgium, 1830-1914
    av An Vleugels
    749 - 1 901,-

    Focusing on Belgium from the mid-nineteenth century until the First World War, Vleugels presents a study of the drunkard in society.

  • av Victor N Zakharov
    2 009,-

    Merchant colonies were a significant factor for economic growth in Europe during the early modern period. The essays in this collection look at merchant colonies across Europe, assessing their function, legal status, interaction with local traders and assimilation into their host countries.

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