Routledge Explorations in Economic History
About the Book Series
This long established series provides a platform for books which break new ground in the understanding of the development of the modern world economy. Equally rooted in economics and history, the series is not limited to any particular period or region. Individual titles focus on particular countries, key industries, themes, or international economic relations.
Intra-Asian Trade and Industrialization: Essays in Memory of Yasukichi Yasuba
1st Edition
Edited
By A.J.H. Latham, Heita Kawakatsu
June 19, 2014
Under the impressive editorship of A.J.H. Latham and comprising high quality essays on a topic of rising interest to scholars and policymakers, this volume makes some valuable contributions to regional and global dynamics of trade. With contributions from leading names in the field of economic...
Managing Crises and De-Globalisation: Nordic Foreign Trade and Exchange, 1919-1939
1st Edition
Edited
By Sven-Olof Olsson
June 19, 2014
As small, open economies the Nordic states have always been more dependent on foreign trade than larger powers, and have thus had a historic preference for free trade. But during the inter-war period the Nordic countries were squeezed between powerful and aggressive trading partners: above all ...
Political Competition and Economic Regulation
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Bernholz, Roland Vaubel
June 19, 2014
Organized, readable, technically sound and comprehensive from both theoretical and empirical standpoints, this book summarizes a vast amount of institutional, historical and descriptive detail. Using case studies from the US, Canada, Germany and Switzerland as well as the European Union and the ...
Pricing Theory, Financing of International Organisations and Monetary History
1st Edition
By Lawrence H. Officer
June 19, 2014
This book presents the lifelong and ongoing research of Lawrence H. Officer in a systematic way. The result is an authoritative treatment of such issues as market structure and economic efficiency where more than one characteristic of a commodity is priced, both in general and in application to ...
Economy and Economics of Ancient Greece
1st Edition
By Takeshi Amemiya
May 30, 2014
Addressing the dearth of literature that has been written on this key aspect of economic history, Takeshi Amemiya, a well known leading economist based at Stanford University, analyzes the two diametrically opposed views about the exact nature of the ancient Greek economy, putting together a broad ...
Ireland and the Industrial Revolution: The impact of the industrial revolution on Irish industry, 1801-1922
1st Edition
By Andy Bielenberg
May 30, 2014
This monograph provides the first comprehensive analysis of industrial development in Ireland and its impact on Irish society between 1801-1922. Studies of Irish industrial history to date have been regionally focused or industry specific. The book addresses this problem by bringing together ...
Quantitative Economic History: The good of counting
1st Edition
Edited
By Joshua L. Rosenbloom
May 16, 2014
The essays in this book use the analytical tools and theoretical framework of economics to interpret quantitative historical evidence, offering new ways to approach historical issues and suggesting entirely new types of evidence outside conventional archives. Rosenbloom has gathered together seven ...
Early Modern Capitalism: Economic and Social Change in Europe 1400-1800
1st Edition
Edited
By Maarten Prak
April 02, 2014
This volume takes stock of recent research on economic growth, as well as the development of capital and labour markets, during the centuries that preceded the Industrial Revolution. The book underlines the diversity in the economic experiences of early modern Europeans and suggests how this ...
Agriculture and Economic Development in Europe Since 1870
1st Edition
Edited
By Pedro Lains, Vicente Pinilla
November 08, 2013
Whilst many books on the European economy have focused on the analysis of its industrial sectors, this book draws attention to the often ignored contribution made by the development of European agriculture over the past two centuries. In doing so, the authors adopt a revisionist perspective on the ...
An Economic History of the American Steel Industry
1st Edition
By Robert P. Rogers
November 08, 2013
This book provides 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. The book starts with the 1830's, when the American iron and steel industry resembled the traditional iron producing sector that had ...
Nation, State and the Industrial Revolution: The Visible Hand
1st Edition
By Lars Magnusson
November 08, 2013
The industrial revolution and the creation of the modern (national) state are two of the most important historical processes to have occurred in Europe during the 19th century. The state and other bodies of governance play an important role in the development of capitalist market societies since ...
Reflections on the Cliometrics Revolution: Conversations with Economic Historians
1st Edition
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By John S. Lyons, Louis P. Cain, Samuel H. Williamson
November 08, 2013
This volume marks fifty years of an innovative approach to writing economic history often called "The Cliometrics Revolution." The book presents memoirs of personal development, intellectual lives and influences, new lines of historical research, long-standing debates, a growing international ...