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Imperial Measurement: A Cost–Benefit Analysis of Western Colonialism

Imperial Measurement: A Cost–Benefit Analysis of Western...

Author: Kristian Niemietz
ISBN: 9780255368391
Format: Paperback
$25.88

Drawing on data from various European colonial empires, Niemietz casts doubt on the claim – popular among both 19th-century...  Read More >>

Road Transport in Cumbria in the Nineteenth Century

Road Transport in Cumbria in the Nineteenth Century...

Author: L.A. Williams
ISBN: 9781032600543
Format: Hardback
$189.00

Road Transport in Cumbria in the Nineteenth Century (1975) is a detailed study of transportation by road in one...  Read More >>

Provenance and Possession: Acquisitions from the Portuguese Empire in Renaissance Italy

Provenance and Possession: Acquisitions from the Portuguese...

Author: K. J. P. Lowe
ISBN: 9780691246840
Format: Hardback
$79.99

"A thought-provoking study of how knowledge of provenance was not transferred with enslaved people and goods from...  Read More >>

The Great Crashes: Lessons from Global Meltdowns and How to Prevent Them

The Great Crashes: Lessons from Global Meltdowns and...

Author: Linda Yueh
ISBN: 9780241988084
Format: Paperback
$24.99

A fascinating account of a century of financial crashes, showing what lessons can be learned from history and where...  Read More >>

Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy

Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of...

Author: Quinn Slobodian
ISBN: 9780141993768
Format: Paperback
$24.99

"""In a revelatory dispatch from the frontier of capitalist extremism, an acclaimed historian of ideas shows how...  Read More >>

Barbarian Architecture: Thorstein Veblen’s Chicago

Barbarian Architecture: Thorstein Veblen’s Chicago

Author: Joanna Merwood-Salisbury
ISBN: 9780262547413
Format: Paperback
$80.00

"""This book situates and reappraises Thorstein Veblen's famous Theory of the Leisure Class in the time and especially...  Read More >>

Orthodox Mercantilism: Political Economy in the Byzantine Commonwealth

Orthodox Mercantilism: Political Economy in the Byzantine...

Author: Alex Feldman
ISBN: 9781032376691
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book demonstrates how the political economy of mercantilism was not simply a Western invention by various cities...  Read More >>

Arthur Spiethoff and the German Historical School of Economics: Continuities and Discontinuities

Arthur Spiethoff and the German Historical School of...

Author: Vitantonio Gioia
ISBN: 9781032148755
Format: Hardback
$273.00

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Japan-Netherlands Trade 1600-1800: The Dutch East India Company and Beyond

Japan-Netherlands Trade 1600-1800: The Dutch East India...

Author: Yasuko Suzuki
ISBN: 9781876843434
Format: Paperback
$84.70

The Dutch United East India Company operated in Japan from 1609 to the early 18th century. The Dutch-Japanese relationship...  Read More >>

Engraved on Our Nations: Indigenous Economic Tenacity

Engraved on Our Nations: Indigenous Economic Tenacity...

Author: Wanda Wuttunee ,  Fred Wien
ISBN: 9781772840643
Format: Paperback
$77.50

Despite investments in nation building, self-autonomy, and cultural resurgence, Indigenous economic development...  Read More >>

Ireland's Long Economic Boom: The Celtic Tiger Economy, 1986–2007

Ireland's Long Economic Boom: The Celtic Tiger Economy,...

Author: Eoin O'Malley
ISBN: 9783031530692
Format: Hardback
$158.37

This Open Access book examines the long economic boom experienced in Ireland between the late 1980s and 2007, analysing...  Read More >>

The Economic Legacy of José Joaquín de Mora: Spreading Classical Political Economy in the Hispanic World

The Economic Legacy of José Joaquín de Mora: Spreading...

Author: Jesús Astigarraga ,  Javier Usoz
ISBN: 9783031494451
Format: Hardback
$343.17

Particular attention is given to the influence of Mora in Argentina, Chile, Peru, and Bolivia and how he helped...  Read More >>

Adam Smith on the Ancients and the Moderns

Adam Smith on the Ancients and the Moderns

Author: Gloria Vivenza
ISBN: 9780815364030
Format: Hardback
$273.00

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Race, Taste and the Grape: South African Wine from a Global Perspective

Race, Taste and the Grape: South African Wine from a...

Author: Paul Nugent (University of Edinburgh)
ISBN: 9781009184267
Format: Hardback
$258.75

Offers a detailed history of Cape wine from the late nineteenth century to the present, exposing how race has shaped...  Read More >>

The Silver Empire: How Germany Created Its First Common Currency

The Silver Empire: How Germany Created Its First Common...

Author: Oliver Volckart (Professor of Economic History, Professor of Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science)
ISBN: 9780198894483
Format: Hardback
$82.95

The story of the largest currency union in world history and its creation at the hands of the Holy Roman Empire....  Read More >>

Democracy in Default: Finance and the Rise of Neoliberalism in America

Democracy in Default: Finance and the Rise of Neoliberalism...

Author: Brian Judge
ISBN: 9780231213998
Format: Paperback
$57.95

Democracy in Default offers a new perspective on the birth of neoliberalism, showing that the conventional story...  Read More >>

One From the Many: The Global Economy Since 1850

One From the Many: The Global Economy Since 1850

Author: Christopher M. Meissner (Professor, Professor, The University of California, Davis)
ISBN: 9780199924462
Format: Hardback
$187.95

"Amid a recent surge in arguments that the global economy has begun to ""de-globalize,"" a question has emerged:...  Read More >>

Democracy in Default: Finance and the Rise of Neoliberalism in America

Democracy in Default: Finance and the Rise of Neoliberalism...

Author: Brian Judge
ISBN: 9780231213981
Format: Hardback
$232.95

Democracy in Default offers a new perspective on the birth of neoliberalism, showing that the conventional story...  Read More >>

Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World

Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and...

Author: Malcolm Harris
ISBN: 9781529430912
Format: Paperback
$26.99

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Female Servants in Early Modern England

Female Servants in Early Modern England

Author: Charmian Mansell (Research Fellow, Research Fellow, University of Cambridge)
ISBN: 9780197267585
Format: Hardback
$230.95

Excavating experiences of over a thousand women in service from church court testimony, Mansell argues that early...  Read More >>

Histories of Perplexity: Colombia, 1970s-2010s

Histories of Perplexity: Colombia, 1970s-2010s

Author: A. Ricardo López-Pedreros (Western Washington University, USA) ,  Lina Britto
ISBN: 9780367499365
Format: Hardback
$273.00

By combining chronological coverage, analytical breadth and interdisciplinary approaches, these two volumes study...  Read More >>

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