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Why did the industrial revolution take place in eighteenth-century Britain and not elsewhere in Europe or Asia? In this convincing new account Robert Allen argues that the British …
This revised and extended edition of the leading textbook on European economic history has been updated to take account of contemporary economic developments and the latest …
This is the first full account of how an influential form of commercial organization - the multinational enterprise - drove globalization and contributed to the making of the …
How did economic and financial factors determine how America waged war in the twentieth century? This important new book exposes the influence of economics and finance on the …
How has human development evolved during the last 150 years of globalization and economic growth? How has human development been distributed across countries? How do developing …
Carlo Bastasin and Gianni Toniolo provide a much-needed, up-to-date economic history of Italy from unification in 1861 to the present day. They show how, thirty years after …
What explains the great variability in economic growth and political development across countries? Institutional and organizational analysis has developed since the 1970s into a …
Ever since the financial crisis of 2008, doubts have been raised about the future of capitalism. In this broad-ranging survey of financial capitalism from antiquity to the present, …
For better or for worse, in recent times the rapid growth of international economic exchange has changed our lives. But when did this process of globalization begin, and what …
Humans have become much taller and heavier, and experience healthier and longer lives than ever before in human history. However it is only recently that historians, economists, …