Perspectives in Economic and Social History
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Agriculture and the Great Depression: The Rural Crisis of the 1930s in Europe and the Americas
1st Edition
Edited
By Gérard Béaur, Francesco Chiapparino
July 29, 2024
What role did the agricultural sector play in the economic crash of 1929? Taking evidence from country cases across Europe and the Americas, this edited volume explores short-, medium- and long- term perspectives on the primary sector. The monograph brings together the voices of an international ...
Social Cohesion and Welfare States: From Fragmentation to Social Peace
1st Edition
Edited
By Christopher Lloyd, Matti Hannikainen
January 29, 2024
Aiming to go beyond reiterating the stereotypical narrative of the rise of welfare states, this interdisciplinary book examines the long-run historical processes of the development of the welfare state. It focuses on the complex political, social, economic and institutional transformations which ...
A History of Cold War Industrialisation: Finnish Shipbuilding between East and West
1st Edition
By Saara Matala
January 09, 2023
This monograph explores the economic consequences of the Cold War, a polarised world order which politicised technology and shaped industrial development. It provides a detailed archival-based history of the Finnish shipbuilding industry (1952–1996), which f lourished, thanks to the special ...
North Eurasian Trade in World History, 1660–1860: The Economic and Political Importance of the Baltic Sea
1st Edition
By Werner Scheltjens
January 09, 2023
This book offers the first long-term analysis of the protracted struggle between Britain, France, Prussia, Russia, and Sweden for economic power and political influence in the northern part of the Eurasian continent between 1660 and 1860. This book shows how their commercial, diplomatic, and ...
The Nordic Economic, Social and Political Model: Challenges in the 21st Century
1st Edition
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By Anu Koivunen, Jari Ojala, Janne Holmén
January 09, 2023
The Nordic Model is the 20th-century Scandinavian recipe for combining stable democracies, individual freedom, economic growth and comprehensive systems for social security. But what happens when Sweden and Finland – two countries topping global indexes for competitiveness, productivity, growth, ...
Shadow Economies in the Globalising World: Smuggling in Scandinavia, 1766–1806
1st Edition
By Anna Knutsson
December 30, 2022
From West Indian sugar and bottles of Southeast Asian arrack to French red wines, English felt cloth, and Mediterranean lemons, many global wares ended up in the Scandinavian borderlands during the late eighteenth century. This book explores how and why these goods came to be there and analyses ...
Luxury, Fashion and the Early Modern Idea of Credit
1st Edition
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By Klas Nyberg, Håkan Jakobsson
May 30, 2022
Luxury, Fashion and the Early Modern Idea of Credit addresses how social and cultural ideas about credit and trust, in the context of fashion and trade, were affected by the growth and development of the bankruptcy institution. Luxury, fashion and social standing are intimately connected to ...
Credit and Debt in Eighteenth-Century England: An Economic History of Debtors’ Prisons
1st Edition
By Alexander Wakelam
May 06, 2022
Throughout the eighteenth century hundreds of thousands of men and women were cast into prison for failing to pay their debts. This apparently illogical system where debtors were kept away from their places of work remained popular with creditors into the nineteenth century even as Britain ...
Early Modern Overseas Trade and Entrepreneurship: Nordic Trading Companies in the Seventeenth Century
1st Edition
By Kaarle Wirta
May 06, 2022
Drawing on an impressive range of archival material, this monograph delves into the careers of two businessmen who worked for Nordic chartered monopoly trading companies to illuminate individual entrepreneurship in the context of seventeenth-century long-distance trade. The study spans the ...
Franco Modigliani and Keynesian Economics
1st Edition
By Antonella Rancan
February 01, 2022
This book follows the intellectual path of Franco Modigliani, Nobel Prize winner and one of the most influential Keynesian economists of the twentieth century, tracing his development and examining the impact of his research. The book begins with Modigliani’s early work as a young law student in ...
Workers, Unions and Payment in Kind: The Fight for Real Wages in Britain, 1820–1914
1st Edition
By Christopher Frank
June 30, 2021
Despite the dramatic expansion of consumer culture from the beginning of the eighteenth century onwards and the developments in retailing, advertising and credit relationships in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, there were a significant number of working families in Britain who were not ...
Fiscal Policy in Early Modern Europe: Portugal in Comparative Context
1st Edition
By Rodrigo da Costa Dominguez
April 01, 2021
This book will examine the gradual assembly and consolidation of Portuguese fiscal policy in the second half of the fifteenth century, providing a comparative analysis of the Portuguese State’s finances and fiscal dynamics with other Western European monarchies.This book examines relevant aspects ...