Routledge Library Editions: Economic History reprints some of the most important works on economic history published in the last century.
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By Wanda F. Neff
May 21, 2015
This book was first published in 1929. The working woman was not, a Victorian institution. The word spinster disproves any upstart origin for the sisterhood of toil. Nor was she as a literary figure the discovery of Victorian witers in search of fresh material. Chaucer included unmemorable working ...
By Roy A. Church
April 09, 2015
This book was first published in 1966. The city of Nottingham grew from the nucleus of a smaller and older town to become one of the nation's leading industrial centres, and although it was not a product of the industrial revolution Nottingham was completely transformed by it. For most of the...
By D.C.M. Platt
April 09, 2015
First Published in 2005. This study uses the Baring archive to provide a professional and contemporary understanding of the foreign financial history of Continental Europe and the United States from the years 1815 to 1870. The material gathered in this book, for France, Russia, Austria, Spain and ...
By M.C. Buer
April 09, 2015
First Published in 2005.It is the primary object of this study to endeavour to elucidate the main causes of the rapid growth of population in England in the 18th and early 19th centuries, with special reference to the period 1750–1815. This enquiry is narrow in time and place but deals with the ...
By W.O. Henderson
April 09, 2015
This book was first published in 1966. It was surprising that so small and so remote a country as Switzerland should have played such an important part in the industrial revolution on the Continent in the nineteenth century. A lack of natural resources and basic raw materials and population of ...
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By Frank W. Fetter
April 09, 2015
First Published in 2005. The Irish Report is a scarce document, known to comparatively few economists. This reprint of the Report and of portions of the Minutes of Evidence, set against the historical background, will not only be of interest to the student of monetary theory and of monetary history...
By John Davidson
March 31, 2015
First Published in 2005.This text starts to look at England's Commercial Policy towards her Colonies since the Treaty of Paris and then moves forward to cover Commercial policy, federation, the Empire and Trade....
By A.B.W. Chapman, V.M. Shillinton
March 31, 2015
First Published in 2005. This book looks at the commercial relations between England and Portugal during the mediaeval period, including merchant trading. Due to the relations between Prince Henry the Navigator, and Vasco da Gama, the Anglo - Portuguese alliance, of which the origins can be traced ...
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By Mary B. Rose
March 31, 2015
This book of essays, which draws on the expertise of leading textile scholars in Britain and the United States, focuses on the problem of and responses to foreign competition in textiles from the late nineteenth century to the present day. A short introductory essay by the editor is followed by a ...
By Jim Tomlinson
March 31, 2015
Most historical accounts of economic policy set out to describe the way in which governments have attempted to solve their economic problems and to achieve their economic objectives. Jim Tomlinson, however, focuses on the problems themselves, arguing that the way in which areas of economic policy ...
By E.B. McGuire
March 31, 2015
This book provides a comprehensive description of the protectionist system that has for some years been in force in Great Britain. It explains in simple language the principles and difficulties involved in framing and administering a customs and excise tariff, which has both revenue and political ...
By S.P Dobbs
March 31, 2015
First Published in 2005. This book is a part of the studies in Economic and Political Science series and is a study of the British Clothing Trades. The first aim is to describe the present-day structure and localization of the Clothing Industry in Great Britain. The second is to compare existing ...