Books in the Routledge Explorations in Economic History series

Tirthankar Roy turns his attention to labour and livelihood and the nature of economic change in the Indian Subcontinent, challenging prevailing wisdom and formulating new views.

This book provides a new answer to the old question of the 'rise of the west': why did some countries embark on a path of sustained economic growth while others stagnated?

An international board of contributors underline the diversity in the economic experiences of early modern Europeans, and suggest how this variety might be the foundation of a new conception of economic and social change.

Presenting a hitherto unknown and inaccessible corpus of data from ancient Babylonia, this exciting new volume examines the development of market performance from Antiquity until the dawn of the Industrial Revolution.

This volume explores economic, social, and political dimensions of three catastrophic famines which struck mid-nineteenth and early-twentieth century Europe; the Irish Famine (An Gorta Mór) of 1845¿1850, the Finnish Famine (Suuret Nälkävuodet) of the 1860s and the Ukrainian Famine (Holodomor) of 1932/1933.

Analyzes the nature of the ancient Greek economy, offering a comprehensive survey.

Relevant to many fields including institutional economics, political science, anthropology, sociology and social psychology, this text handles the thorny issue of property rights and ethno-nationality.

This book provides an overview of five centuries of Pacific and Pacific Rim economic and trade history, making it a valuable contribution to understanding of the increasing global importance of this region.

An international board of contributors underline the diversity in the economic experiences of early modern Europeans, and suggest how this variety might be the foundation of a new conception of economic and social change.

Drawing upon a wide range of archival sources, this book provides the first full assessment of the Conservatives' performance in the period of 1951-1964, a decisive period for the British economy.

This work examines the establishment and effectiveness of import controls, particularly quotas. Placing quotas back in the centre of British history, Milward and Brennan make some radical claims for Britain's economic performance.

Demonstrates that international economic integration is an economic and political process that also involves political economy. This book also examines the types of organizations that exemplify international economic integration, such as colonial empires, merchant associations, religious empires, criminal empires, free trade areas, and more.

Contains essays that use the analytical tools and theoretical framework of economics to interpret quantitative historical evidence, offering different ways to approach historical issues and suggesting various types of evidence outside conventional archives.

In focusing on those countries, which by 1870 still had a large agricultural sector, namely, France, Germany, Italy, Denmark, The Netherlands, Sweden, Spain, Portugal, Poland, Hungary, Greece and Turkey, this book determines the role of the agricultural sector in the economic development of Europe.

Offers a basic outline of the history of the American steel industry, a sector of the economy that has been an important part of the industrial system. This book covers 1830's, when the American iron and steel industry resembled the traditional iron producing sector that had existed in the old world for centuries, and it ends in 2001.

This book takes a new approach to the rise of large scale companies in Victorian England, including the Bank of England and East India Company, locating their origins in social and political practice.

Calls for a major rethinking of our understanding of industrialization for global history, by focusing the East Asian experience of 'labour-intensive' industrialization and, reinterpreting the western experience of 'capital-intensive' industrialization and the experiences of countries in the regions of Asia and in Africa and Latin America.

Offers a comprehensive analysis of industrial development in Ireland and its impact on Irish society between 1801-1922. This book presents economic and social dimensions of Irish industrial history during the Union between Ireland and Great Britain.

Examines the controlling influences that drive macroeconomic policies in the United States. This book addresses the history of the interests, ideas, and practices of monetary and fiscal policies in the US. It also examines macro-policies in other countries, particularly the UK.

This book sets out the present state of the discussion of the decline in British industry and introduces new directions in which the debate is now proceeding.

This book examines the behaviour of labour markets and the conduct of industrial relations in the last century comparing four very different societies, Germany, Sweden, Britain and Japan.