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 John Lord
February 05, 2015
When it appeared in 1923, John Lord’s Capital and Steam Power 1750–1800 was the first book to be based on the voluminous Boultori and Watt papers in Birmingham since the hey-day of Samuel Smiles. Although Lord’s conclusions have been modified and corrected on various points, this book still ...
By Frank F. Rosenblatt
February 05, 2015
Professor Rosenblatt’s The Chartist Movement was the first serious study of Chartism, using the techniques of modern scholarship, to appear in English. The book comprises a detailed account of the history of the movement, dealing mainly with the period from 1837 until the Chartist riots at Newport,...
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By Brian Pullan
February 05, 2015
The decline of Venice remains one of the classic episodes in the economic development of modern Europe. Its contrasts are familiar enough: the wealthiest commercial power in fifteenth-century Europe, the strongest western colonial power in the eastern Mediterranean, found its principal fame three ...
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By Richard L. Tames
February 05, 2015
This fascinating collection presents industrialization as a total historical process involving the destruction of one world simultaneously with the creation of another. Divided into two sections, it deals with elements of life such as the organization of labour, the health of the nation, rural and ...
By Francis G. Walett
February 05, 2015
First Published in 2005. This volume offers a summary of all phases of economic growth in the USA. It is based upon the contents of the standard college textbooks in American economic history. It presents in succinct form and in the most common organization the essential facts about the economic ...
By A.L. Bowley
February 05, 2015
This text offers a short account of England's foreign trade in the nineteenth century and looks at the economic and social results of commerce. First published in 1893, this is a revised version and it includes ten statistical diagrams....
By Ludwig Erhard
February 05, 2015
A great deal has been talked about the economic recovery of Western Germany since the Second World War. It is know htat this recovery was accompanied by the return of the Federal Republic to the markets of the world. Not so much is know abotu the details - about the work effected through the ...
By Donald Grove Barnes
February 05, 2015
First Published in 2005. A history of the English Corn Laws 1660-1846 is part of the studies in Economic and Social History series and looks at how the Corn Laws regulated the internal trade, exportation and importation and market development from the twelfth to the eighteenth centuries....
By E. Royston pike
February 05, 2015
First Published in 2005. So many books have been written on the Industrial Revolution in Britain that it may be thought that there is hardly room for another. The present volume is an attempt to go some way towards filling what must surely appear to be a somewhat surprising gap in the literature. ...
By W.O. Henderson
February 05, 2015
In this book W. O. Henderson has brought together in English translation the journals of four foreign visitors who travelled in England and Scotland in the years immediately following the Napoleonic wars, in a way which may be regarded as a sequel to his recent book on J. C. Fischer’s diaries of ...
By P.G. Hall
February 05, 2015
This book is a study in economic geography, treated historically. Its primary purpose is to describe and explain the industrial geography of London since 1861, using the most recent statistics available for that purpose, noting that this work was originally published in 1962....
By Stella Davies
February 05, 2015
First published in 1966, this revealing study looks closely into the lives of the men, women and children working in mines, workshops, factories and farms during the industrial revolution. It investigates the inventors whose new machines made the industrial revolution possible, and reflects on the ...