Economic History Books

New and Published Books

1. Understanding European Movements

   New Social Movements, Global Justice Struggles, Anti-Austerity Protest

   Edited by Cristina Flesher Fominaya, Laurence Cox

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   European social movements have been central to European history, politics, society and culture, and have had a global reach and impact. Yet they have rarely been taken on their own terms in the English-language literature, considered rather as counterpoints to the US experience. This has been...

   Published May 20th 2013 by Routledge
2. The Ephemeral Civilization

   Exploding the Myth of Social Evolution

   By Graeme Snooks

   The Ephemeral Civilization is an astonishing intellectual feat in which Graeme Snooks develops an original and ground-breaking analysis of changing sociopolitical forms over the past 3,000 years. Snooks challenges the prevailing theories of social evolutionism with an innovative approach which also...

   Published May 7th 2013 by Routledge
3. Six Centuries of Work and Wages

   The History of English Labour

   By James E. Thorold Rogers

   Series: Economic History

   Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
4. The Future of the Soviet Economic Planning System (Routledge Revivals)

   By David A. Dyker

   On its publication in 1985, this book offered a fresh analysis of the problems faced by the Soviet economy by focussing on the key issues in the economic planning system. David Dyker considers the available options for reform during the 1980s and the most likely developments. Discussing the...

   Published March 31st 2013 by Routledge
5. Female Agency in the Urban Economy

   Gender in European Towns, 1640-1830

   Edited by Deborah Simonton, Anne Montenach

   Series: Routledge Research in Gender and History

   This innovative new book is overtly and explicitly about female agency in eighteenth-century European towns. However, it positions female activity and decisions unequivocally in an urban world of institutions, laws, regulations, customs and ideologies. Gender politics complicated and shaped the...

   Published March 25th 2013 by Routledge
6. The Economic Civil Rights Movement

   African Americans and the Struggle for Economic Power

   Edited by Michael Ezra

   Series: Routledge Studies in African American History

   Economic inequalities have been perhaps the most enduring problem facing African Americans since the civil rights movement, despite the attention they have received from activists. Although the civil rights movement dealt successfully with injustices like disenfranchisement and segregated public...

   Published March 25th 2013 by Routledge
7. Essays on a Mature Economy: Britain After 1840

   Papers and Proceedings on the New Economic History of Britain 1840-1930

   Edited by Deirdre McCloskey

   Series: Economic History

   These unique papers were originally read at a conference on the new economic history of Britain at Harvard in 1970, and each is accompanied by a summary of the discussion that followed it. The participants of the conference represented a broad range of scholars from both sides of the Atlantic. The...

   Published March 14th 2013 by Routledge
8. Silver in England

   By Philippa Glanville

   Series: Economic History

   Published March 14th 2013 by Routledge
9. Introducing Money

   By Mark Peacock

   Series: Economics as Social Theory

   This book provides a theoretical and historical examination of the evolution of money. It is distinct from the majority of ‘economic’ approaches, for it does not see money as an outgrowth of market exchange via barter. Instead, the social, political, legal and religious origins of money are...

   Published March 12th 2013 by Routledge
10. Colonial Exploitation and Economic Development

    The Belgian Congo and the Netherlands Indies Compared

    Edited by Ewout Frankema, Frans Buelens

    Series: Routledge Explorations in Economic History

    Since many countries in the world at present were European colonies in the not so distant past, the relationship between colonial institutions and development outcomes is a key topic of study across many disciplines. This edited volume, from a leading international group of scholars, discusses the...

    Published March 11th 2013 by Routledge