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    22 887

    Contains the first ten books from the series.

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    8 447

    Contains the first ten books from the series.

  • - Newcomers to Antwerp, 1760-1860
    av Dr. Anne & Ph.D. Winter
    847 - 2 027

  • av Victor N Zakharov
    2 237

    Merchant colonies were a significant factor for economic growth in Europe during the early modern period. The essays in this collection look at merchant colonies across Europe, assessing their function, legal status, interaction with local traders and assimilation into their host countries.

  • - Belgium, 1830-1914
    av An Vleugels
    847 - 2 081

    Focusing on Belgium from the mid-nineteenth century until the First World War, Vleugels presents a study of the drunkard in society.

  • - Negotiating Power in a Burgh Society
    av J. R. D. Falconer
    847 - 2 027

    Based on church and state records from the burgh of Aberdeen, this study explores the deeper social meaning behind petty crime during the Reformation. Falconer argues that an analysis of both criminal behaviour and law enforcement provides a unique view into the workings of an early modern urban Scottish community.

  • - Politics and Cultural Conflict in British Society, 1968-1998
    av Brett Bebber
    831 - 2 237

  • av Victoria N. Bateman
    831 - 2 101

    This is the first study to analyze a wide spread of price data to determine whether market development led to economic growth in the early modern period.

  • - Prostitutes, Emigration and Nation-Building
    av Bill Mihalopoulos
    847 - 2 281

    Based on archival research undertaken in Japan, Britain and the United States, Mihalopoulos offers a new perspective on the relations between gender hierarchies and the political economy in a newly modernized Japan.

  • - A Political and Economic Analysis
    av Tai-Wei Lim & Justin Dargin
    831 - 2 281

  • - Managing Industrial Change
    av Carlo Morelli
    1 897

    By looking at the decline of the jute industry, this study assesses the successes and failures of Britain's managed economy. It also addresses broader arguments about the political economy of twentieth-century Britain.

  • - The Fight for Real Wages in Britain, 1820-1914
    av Christopher Frank
    651 - 1 997

  • - Eighteenth-Century Diamond Merchants
    av Tijl Vanneste
    831 - 2 101

    At the heart of this study on cross-cultural trade lies a concrete case-study of a network of diamond merchants operating in the early eighteenth century. All the traders examined in this study are outsiders: an English Catholic in Antwerp, Sephardic and Ashkenazi Jews in London and Amsterdam and French Huguenots in Lisbon.

  • av Gail D. Triner
    847 - 2 237

    'Mining and the State' examines the fundamental economic institutional structure of Brazil through the prism of its mineral endowment.

  • av Stuart Sweeney
    831 - 2 237

  • - Natural History in the Making, 1550-1610
    av Florike Egmond
    831 - 2 027

  • - The Evolution of the Debate
    av Ana Rosado Cubero
    607 - 1 431

  • av Susan L. Tananbaum
    941 - 2 237

    Between 1880 and 1939, a quarter of a million European Jews settled in England. Tananbaum explores the differing ways in which the existing Anglo-Jewish communities, local government and education and welfare organizations sought to socialize these new arrivals, focusing on the experiences of working-class women and children.

  • av Siobhan Talbott
    847 - 2 101

    Using untapped archival sources from Britain, France and America, Talbott presents a comparative view of British relations with France over the long seventeenth century.

  • - An American Experience, 1870-1950
    av Mazie Hough
    831 - 2 231

  • - Deviance, Surveillance and Morality
    av Catherine Lee
    847 - 2 231

    Focusing on the ports, dockyards and garrison towns of Kent, this study examines the social and economic factors that could cause a woman to turn to prostitution, and how such women were policed.

  • - The Value of Virtue
    av Lynn MacKay
    847 - 2 201

    The population of London soared during the Industrial Revolution and the poorer areas became iconic places of overcrowding and vice. Focusing on the communities of Westminster, MacKay shows that many of the plebeian populace retained traditional working-class pursuits, such as gambling, drinking and blood sports.

  • - Development of the Labour Market
    av Michael Heller
    847 - 2 027

    This study is based on a wide range of business sources as well as newspapers, journals, novels and oral history, allowing Heller to put forward a new interpretation of working conditions for London clerks, highlighting the ways in which clerical work changed and modernized over this period.

  • - New Cliometric Data
    av Cesar Yanez
    847 - 2 237

  • av AnneMarie Kooistra
    1 361

    Prostitution in Los Angeles has a long history. The story of its evolution from a red-light district run by women to a corporate vice industry dominated by men tells us much about the development of urban America. Kooistra examines race and gender dynamics alongside issues of government and police corruption, commerce and larger changes in society.

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    2 071

    Luxury, Fashion and the Early Modern Idea of Credit addresses how social and cultural ideas about credit and trust were affected by the growth and development of the bankruptcy institution. This book is an essential read for scholars in economic history, financial history, social history and European history.

  • - The London Food Market, 1800-1855
    av Robyn S. Metcalfe
    847 - 2 237

    This study examines the struggle between Smithfield market's supporters and detractors and argues that this demonstrates a major shift in the way the urban landscape came to be used.

  • - Work, Technology and their Ecologies in an Age of Early Capitalism
    av Safley Thomas Max
    1 777

    Many of the current debates about economic development leading to industrialization fail to directly engage with labor. This collection of essays strives to correct this oversight and to reintroduce labor into the great debates about capitalist development and economic growth before the Industrial Revolution.

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