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Taylor & Francis Ltd Augustus to Nero Routledge Revivals
Book SynopsisThe years from the battle of Actium to the death of Nero stand at the very heart of Roman history. Yet the sources of this key period, particularly the inscriptions, papyri and coins, are not readily accessible. Crucial new discoveries remain buried in learned periodicals, and now that the study of the ancient world is widespread among those without Latin and Greek, the lack of translations is proving a serious handicap. Augustus to Nero, first published in 1985, contains numerous texts not only for students of traditional political history, but also of those interested in social and economic history. An introductory essay establishes a broad methodological framework within which each text may be understood. The focus throughout is on less well-known literary evidence: for example, the significant poetry of Crinagoras and Calpurnius Siculus. Inaccessible sources are here collected and translated: brief notes are supplied to help the reader.Table of ContentsPreface; Bibliographical Note; Abbreviations; Introductions 1. 1-293: The Imperial Family 2. 294-351: The Imperial Household 3. 352-422: Senators 4. 423-474: Equites 5. 475-534: The Armed Forces 6. 534-601: The Imperial Administration 7. 602-693: Kings, Cities and Towns 8. 694-849: Society and Economy; Index of Personal Names; Index of Sources
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Jeremy Benthams Economic Writings
Book SynopsisThis volume contains all the writings that are grouped around Bentham''s boldest idea - the proposal of a ''circulating currency'': a government sponsored currency which would be both a kind of savings certificate and a kind of paper money. The roots of this proposal are illustrated in two pamphlets from 1794-96, along with subsequent pamphlets and discussions which show Bentham''s unsuccessful negotiations with the trasury on this matter.Table of ContentsA Plan for Augmentation of the RevenueProposal for the circulation of a [New] Species of Paper CurrencyAbstract or Compressed View of a Tract Intituled Circulating AnnuitiesPaper Mischief [Exposed]
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Studies in English Trade in the 15th Century
Book SynopsisOf all the activities of the most neglected century in English History, England''s trade has received the least attention in proportion to its importance. It was obviously in the course of the later Middle Ages, and more particularly in the fifteenth century, that there took place the great transformation from medieval England, isolated and intensely local, to the England of the Tudor and Stuart age, with its world-wide connections and imperial designs. It was during the same period that most of the forms of international trade characteristic of the Middle Ages were replaced by new methods of commercial organization and regulation, national in scope and at times definitely nationalistic in object, and that a marked movement towards capitalist methods and principles took place in the sphere of domestic trade. Yet little has been written concerning English trade in this period.First published in 1933, this classic volume goes a long way to fills this gap superbly. There isTable of ContentsPreface 1. Foreign Trade from 1446 to 1482 2. The Wool Trade in the Fifteenth Century 3. The Economic and Political Relations of England and the Hanse From 1400 to 1475 4. The Iceland Trade 5. The Overseas Trade of Bristol 6. The Grocers of London, A Study of Distributive Trade 7. The Financial Transactions Between the Lancastrian Government and the Merchants of the Staple from 1449 to 1461 8. Tables of Enrolled Customs and Subsidy Accounts, 1399-1482 i. Introduction ii. Tables Notes to the Text Appendix A. Variations in English Foreign Trade, 1446 to 1482: Annual Averages by Periods Appendix B. Total English Foreign Trade, 1446 to 1482 Appendix C. Broadcloths Exported by the Hanseatic Merchants, 1406 to 1480
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Intellectuals in Developing Societies
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1977. During a time of reflection after the author's withdrawal from active politics after four years of effort in Malaysia to promote an alternative to the present government this book was written. His experience as the national chairman of an opposition party, between 1968 and 1971, and presence in the Malaysian Senate in 1971 brought him face to face with problems that were in many ways generated by the type of elites ruling the country and circumstances.Table of ContentsThe Malaysian background - a personal account; intellectuals and their function; Bebalisma; the fools in developing societies; the intellectuals and developing societies; the necessity for intellectuals; the emergence of the intellectuals; backwardness and the intellectuals - the Russian phenomenon and the developing societies; the backward elites and modernisation; science and the backward elites; backward elites and the problem of causation.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Transatlantic Literary Exchanges 17901870
Book SynopsisExploring the ways in which transatlantic relationships functioned in the nineteenth century to unsettle hierarchical models of gender, race, and national and cultural differences, this collection demonstrates the generative potential of transatlantic studies to loosen demographic frames and challenge conveniently linear histories. The contributors take up a rich and varied range of topics, including Charlotte Smith''s novelistic treatment of the American Revolution, The Old Manor House; Anna Jameson''s counter-discursive constructions of gender in a travelogue; Felicia Hemans, Herman Melville, and the ''Queer Atlantic''; representations of indigenous religion and shamanism in British Romantic literary discourse; the mid-nineteenth-century transatlantic abolitionist movement; the transatlantic adventure novel; the exchanges of transatlantic print culture facilitated by the Minerva Press; British and Anglo-American representations of Niagara Falls; and Charles Brockden Brown''s intervenTrade Review'The essays in Transatlantic Literary Exchanges examine spaces where national attachments are mixed, multiple, and/or ambiguous. In focusing on such liminal spaces in an impressive range of works and authors, the collection offers many important new insights into the construction of-and contestation over-key conceptual categories, such as sexuality, nature, and genre. These insights pose profound questions about the way we approach particular authors, how we think of American and British literature in general from the late eighteenth through mid-nineteenth centuries, and, ultimately, about the stories we tell about this period in literary history.' Jim Egan, Brown University '[This book] is interdisciplinary and consistently thorough in its analyses, being concerned with transatlantic culture in all its many facets - historical, political, philosophical and theological - and the combined effect is to read the nineteenth-century Atlantic world as an imaginative space where social, economic and political exchange occurs in frequently surprising, and often destabilising, cultural forms.' Literature and History '[This book] brings together a range of topics and methodologies relevant to transatlantic studies, providing a current introduction to the field by describing ongoing trends and highlighting particular researches.' RomanticismTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: mobilizing gender, race, and nation, Kevin Hutchings and Julia M. Wright; Part 1 Transatlantic Mobility: Gender and Sexuality: Charlotte Smith and the spectre of America, Jared Richman; Romantic aesthetics, gender, and transatlantic travel in Anna Brownwell Jameson's Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada, Charity Matthews; Felicia Hemans, Herman Melville and the queer Atlantic, Daniel Hannah. Part 2 Reconfiguring Race: Prophets of resistance: Native American shamans and anglophone writers, Tim Fulford; Frederick Douglass and transatlantic echoes of 'the color line', Bridget Bennett; Pirates and patriots: citizenship, race and the transatlantic adventure novel, Sarah H. Ficke. Part 3 Cultural Exchanges: Print, Tourism, and Politics: Charles Brockden Brown and England: of genres, the Minerva Press, and the early republican reprint trade, Eve Tavor Bannet; Romantic Niagara: environmental aesthetics, indigenous culture, and transatlantic tourism, 1794-1850, Kevin Hutchings; Beyond the American empire: Charles Brockden Brown and the making of a new global economic order, Wil Verhoeven; Bibliography; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Europes Rich Fabric
Book SynopsisThroughout human history luxury textiles have been used as a marker of importance, power and distinction. Yet, as the essays in this collection make clear, the term ''luxury'' is one that can be fraught with difficulties for historians. Focusing upon the consumption, commercialisation and production of luxury textiles in Italy and the Low Countries during the late medieval and early modern period, this volume offers a fascinating exploration of the varied and subtle ways that luxury could be interpreted and understood in the past. Beginning with the consumption of luxury textiles, it takes the reader on a journey back from the market place, to the commercialisation of rich fabrics by an international network of traders, before arriving at the workshop to explore the Italian and Burgundian world of production of damasks, silks and tapestries. The first part of the volume deals with the consumption of luxury textiles, through an investigation of courtly purchases, as well as urban and clTable of ContentsContents: Preface; Introduction: Luxury textiles in Italy, the Low Countries and neighbouring territories (14th to 16th centuries): a conceptual investigation, Bart Lambert and Katherine Anne Wilson. Part I Consumption of Luxury Textiles: ’In a chamber, in a garderobe, in a chest’: the possession and uses of luxury textiles. The case of later medieval Dijon, Katherine Anne Wilson; ’o per honore, o per commodo mio’: displaying textiles at the Gonzaga court in the 15th and 16th centuries, Christina Antenhofer; Between mass and ’mystère’: the Life of Saint Remigius and the ceremonial function of choir tapestries, Laura Weigert. Part II Commercialisation of Luxury Textiles: ’Se fist riche par draps de soye’: the intertwinement of Italian financial interests and luxury trade at the Burgundian court (1384-1481), Bart Lambert; Florence, Nuremberg and beyond: Italian silks in central Europe during the Renaissance, Francesco Guidi-Bruscoli; Trading silks and tapestries in 16th-century Antwerp, Jeroen Puttevils. Part III Production of Luxury Textiles: The move to quality cloth. Luxury textiles, labour markets and middle class identity in a medieval textile city. Mechelen in the late 13th and early 14th centuries, Peter Stabel; Woolen luxury cloth in late medieval Italy, Franco Franceschi; A luxury industry: the production of Italian silks 1400-1600, Luca Molà ; Centres, peripheries and the performative textile: by way of conclusion, Graeme Small; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Coinage and Coin Use in Medieval Italy
Book SynopsisThe volume gathers together seventeen articles dedicated to the monetary history of medieval Italy, most of them newly translated into English. The articles in the first section of the volume trace the development of monetisation in Italy from the Lombard period until the rise of the communes, taking Rome, Lazio, Tuscany, and several cities and regions in north-central Italy as case studies. The articles in the second section analyse different aspects of monetary production and circulation in Byzantine Italy, while the third gathers together studies on various aspects of Carolingian coinage: the transition from the Lombard system and the problem of furnishing an adequate supply of silver; mints and royal administration; and the activity and inactivity of mints operating at the edges of the Regnum Italiae. All of the articles share the author's characteristic concern with setting the evidence from written sources against the wealth of new data emerging from recent archaeological researcTrade Review'This helpful volume, part of the well-known Variorum series, collects a selection of her most important articles (in this case amounting to a generous seventeen items), with the usual addenda and corrigenda, as well as a consolidated index ... Rovelli’s work is important for specialists working in many areas of early medieval archaeology, history and numismatics, including those whose interests are not primarily Italian. At the heart of her approach is close engagement with coin-finds and their archaeological context, but also with an eye to the testimony of contemporary documents - an exemplary methodology.' Early Medieval Europe 'This work offers more than a mere snapshot of the field or a rigid unitary perspective. We now possess not only a useful collation of Rovelli’s detailed work but also a body of material that can be easily accessed by Anglophone readers. ... This comprehensive collection, which also addresses a wide range of pertinent fields and problems that affect not only Italy in the early medieval period but also the wider Mediterranean and European worlds, is a valuable addition to our libraries.' Al-Masaq: Journal of the Medieval MediterraneanTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; Part I Coin Use in Medieval Italy: Residuality, non-residuality, and continuity of circulation: some examples from the Crypta Balbi; Coin hoards; Monetary circulation and notarial formulas in early medieval Italy; Coinage in the early medieval documentary record from Rome and Lazio; Monetary circulation in Byzantine and Carolingian Rome: a reconsideration in the light of recent archaeological data; Some considerations on the coinage of Lombard and Carolingian Italy; Coins and trade in early medieval Italy; The denaro of Pavia in the early Middle Ages (8th to 11th century); Patrimonium Beati Petri. Coin issue and circulation in northern Lazio (11th-14th centuries); New mints and coin circulation between the 10th and 13th centuries: the example of Lazio and Tuscany. Part II Coins and Coin Circulation in Byzantine Italy: Un tremisse di GiustinianoII da San Vincenzo al Volturno. Osservazioni sulle emission auree dell’Italia bizantina; Naples, ville et atelier monétaire de l’empire byzantin: l’apport des fouilles récentes. Part III Coins and Coin Circulation in Carolingian Italy: Money and coinage in the Campione dossier; 774. The mints of the Kingdom of Italy: a survey; Émission monétaire et administration dans le royaume d’Italie. À propos des analyses des derniers carolingiens du cabinet des médailles; The Carolingian denaro in southern Italy: reopening the debate; The deniers of Charlemagne with the legend +CARLVSREXFR ETLANGACPATROM and the Greek monogram; Addenda and corrigenda; Index.
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Taylor & Francis The Renaissance and the Ottoman World
Book SynopsisThis volume brings together some of the latest research on the cultural, intellectual, and commercial interactions during the Renaissance between Western Europe and the Middle East, with particular reference to the Ottoman Empire. Recent scholarship has brought to the fore the economic, political, cultural, and personal interactions between Western European Christian states and the Eastern Mediterranean Islamic states, and has therefore highlighted the incongruity of conceiving of an iron curtain bisecting the mentalities of the various socio-political and religious communities located in the same Euro-Mediterranean space. Instead, the emphasis here is on interpreting the Mediterranean as a world traversed by trade routes and associated cultural and intellectual networks through which ideas, people and goods regularly travelled. The fourteen articles in this volume contribute to an exciting cross-cultural and inter-disciplinary scholarly dialogue that explores elements of continuity aTrade Review'The Renaissance and the Ottoman World is a first-class collection of essays.' Sixteenth Century Journal Volume '... written by scholars for the equally scholarly... To general knowledge, these essays on ideas, books, maps, music and events add patches of great depth and insight.' Brian Sewell's essential art books of 2013, London Evening Standard 'This book of essays is a blast of fresh air blowing through hermetically sealed rooms as it aims to portray the Ottomans not merely as hovering on the fringes of Europe, but as integral to Mediterranean culture, even becoming elements in the European Renaissance. Thirteen contributions highlight unusual areas, including technology, cartography, architectural inspiration and music.' Art Newspaper '... visually stunning as well as refreshing in its diverse views.' Renaissance Quarterly ’The range of the book is impressive, covering material culture, music, intellectual exchanges, art, cartography, historiography, textiles, and other issues ...a thought-provoking, wide-ranging book that convincingly argues that the Ottoman Empire participated as an accepted player in European affairs during the early modern period. Future studies will no doubt continue to add to many of the authors’ observations.’ European History QuarterlyTable of ContentsContents: Foreword; Section I Commercial, Artistic and Cultural Contexts: Blurring the boundaries: intellectual and cultural interactions between the Eastern and Western: Christian and Muslim worlds, Claire Norton; Sharing a taste? Material culture and intellectual curiosity around the Mediterranean from the 11th to the 16th century, Anna Contadini; The Lepanto paradigm revisited: knowing the Ottomans in the 16th century, Palmira Brummett. Section II Texts, Art and Music as Media for the Transmission of Intercultural Influences: The role of the book in the transfer of culture between Venice and the Eastern Mediterranean, Deborah Howard; The 'reception of the Venetian ambassadors in Damascus’: dating, meaning and attribution, Caroline Campbell; Giacomo Gastaldi’s maps of Anatolia: the evolution of a shared Venetian-Ottoman cultural space?, Sonja Brentjes; Turning a deaf ear, Owen Wright. Section III Renaissance Thought: Old and new demarcation lines between Christian Europe and the Islamic Ottoman Empire: from Pope Pius II (1458-1464) to Pope Benedict XVI (2005-13), Zweder von Martels; Turco-Graecia: German humanists and the end of Greek antiquity - cultural exchange and misunderstanding, Asaph Ben Tov; Positive views of Islam and of Ottoman rule in the 16th century: the case of Jean Bodin, Noel Malcolm. Section IV The Renaissance and the Ottoman Empire: Binding relationships: Mamluk, Ottoman and Renaissance bookbindings, Alison Ohta; Ottoman textiles in European markets, Suraiya Faroqhi; Mehmed II as a patron of Greek philosophy: Latin and Byzantine perspectives, Anna Akasoy; Bibliography; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd On the Eighteenth Century as a Category of Asian
Book SynopsisThe starting point of this volume is the scathing attack, far-reaching in its consequences, launched in 1942 by J.C. van Leur on the views then current on the character and significance of the 18th century as a category in Asian history. His denial of European pre-eminence in Asian waters represented a direct attack on colonial historiography. The essays here derive from an international conference held 50 years later, to assess the impact of van Leur’s work. In part historiographic, in part drawing on new research, they aim to delimit the boundaries of European-Asian interaction, and to provide case studies of what this period actually meant for the history of South and East Aia.Trade Review'...a fascinating and wide-ranging tour d’horizon of recent Asian historiography struggling with the issue of eighteenth-century change....' Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 58, No. 4 '... reflective overviews by experienced historians...' Journal of World History 'This excellent and well-connected collection of essays is well worth the purchase of the volume and belongs on any historian's bookshelf.... it is hoped that university libraries and other institutions will add this book to their collections.' Journal of Asian HistoryTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; the 18th century as a category in Asian history; J.C.Van Leur, 1908-1942: a short life in history, Jaap Vogel; The 18th century in Southeast Asia, David K. Wyatt; The long 18th century and the new age of commerce in the Melaka Straits, J. Kathirithamby-Wells; Periodization, institutional change and 18th-century Java; Mason C. Hoadley; Princes, pretenders, and the Chinese phrakhlang: an analysis of the Dutch evidence concerning Siamese court politics, Dhiravat na Pombejra; Japan in the 18th century: demography and economy, Akira Hayami; From company to individual company servants: Dutch trade in 18th-century Japan, Yoko Nagazumi; Domestic interregional trade in 18th-century China, William T.Rowe; The impact of the international tea trade on the social economy of Northwest Fujian in the 18th century, Zhuang Guotu; The 18th century in Indian economic history; Irfan Habib; Trade and politics in 18th-century Bengal, Om Prakash; Merchants and commerce in Coromandel: Trends and tendencies in the 18th century, S. Arasaratnam; Van Leur and the Indian 18th century, C.A. Bayly; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The American Savings and Loan Industry 18311935
Book SynopsisThe American savings and loan industry began in the 1830s to help people of modest financial means buy a home. Despite the long history of the industry there has been limited scholarly work done on its early years. This collection allows an insight into the place of the savings and loans industry within the wider context of American society.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Democratic Socialism in Britain
Book SynopsisSocialists are united far more by their shared opposition to anomic individualism than by their commitment to any single interpretative scheme or body of beliefs. However, the 42 texts by the 27 socialists represented in this collection show that, in spite of the striking differences, there are certain crucial similarities and points of convergence. These volumes show that in Britain, at least in the years from 1825-1952, the democrats who called themselves socialists tended to concentrate their discussion around four common themes that served as the core of their common cause: quest for community, the institution of equality, the rehabilitation of the state, and transition by consent.The classic texts contained in these ten volumes, which encompass the Ricardian socialists, the Christian socialists, and the Fabian socialists, seek to make human interaction and social responsibility the centrepiece of economic debate from a variety of ideological perspectives. These key contributions to British thought between 1825 and 1952 are still a source of stimulus to students of political economy even as they have acquired the status of great historical works.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The History of the Company Part II
Book SynopsisExplores the changing economic, social and political role of the Anglo-American firm. Focusing on its formative development between the later 17th and the early 20th centuries, the editors bring together a collection which employs selected documents and analytical commentary to illustrate the external role of the firm and public perceptions of it.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Transformation of a Peasant Economy:
Book SynopsisThe market town has been dismissed as an incompletely formed urban community; in fact it was the primary urban unit in pre-industrial England. This study places the market town at the centre of the transformation of early-modern England, both catalysing changes in agriculture and experiencing, in a distinctive fashion, the urbanisation that was to occur a century or more later in the great industrial and commercial centres of Europe. In the two centuries after 1500 the rural economy changed from a pattern of subsistence to 'improved' farming. The first great enclosures took place during this time, but the economic base for this revolution was the growth of local trading, centred on markets and local communications networks. This redistribution of produce, provisions and information was the motor of specialisation and hence modernisation. The strength of this study is in its detailed research into this process in one representative locality, and the sensitive extrapolation of local experiences on to the national and European scale. By integrating in one book the themes of rural transformation and early urbanisation this account of one typical midland market town demonstrates the continuing vigour of the discipline of local history.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction; Urban and rural communities; Population and poverty; The farming economy; The town economy; Town and village; The peasant economy transformed; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Regulating Railroad Innovation
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Cambridge University Press Making History Count
Book SynopsisThis authoritative guide to quantitative methods is designed to be used as the basic text for taught graduate courses, and upper-level students working on their own. Illustrated with tables, graphs and diagrams, it introduces key topics, and supported by five specific historical data-sets, available electronically in downloadable and manipulatable form.Trade Review'This is an excellent book which serves two purposes. It fills a much needed gap in the literature for the historian who isn't particularly happy in handling numerical data. it also benefits other students who require a passing knowledge of statistics. nothing to my knowledge, has come on the market since Maroney's Facts from Figures in the 1950s provides such an extensive insight into statistical methodology.' Open History'No competitor text is as effective … I wish this text had been available when I was trying to teach quantitative methods.' The Times Higher Education Supplement'… this is a very impressive, an d very welcome, book. Feinstein and Thomas are to be congratulated for producing a comprehensive, nontechnical introduction to quantitative methods for historians which I am sure will soon be compulsory reading on every course catering to such an audience.' Business History'… no competitor text is, to my knowledge, as effective in taking the student from the basics of descriptive statistics through to the intricacies of multiple linear regression … I wish this text had been available when I was trying to teach quantitative methods to numerically challenged historians…'. The Times Higher Education SupplementTable of ContentsPart I. Elementary Statistical Analysis: 1. Introduction; 2. Descriptive statistics; 3. Correlation; 4. Simple linear regression; Part II. Samples and Inductive Statistics: 5. Standard errors and confidence intervals; 6. Hypothesis testing; 7. Non-parametric tests; Part III. Multiple Linear Regression: 8. Multiple relationships; 9. The classical linear regression model; 10. Dummy variables and lagged values; Part IV. Further Topics in Regression Analysis: 11. Violating the assumptions of the classical model; 12. Non-linear models and functional forms; 13. Logit, probit, and tobit models; Part V. Specifying and Interpreting Models: Four Case Studies: 14. Case studies 1 and 2: unemployment in Britain and emigration from Ireland; 15. Case studies 3 and 4: the Old Poor Law in England and leaving home in the United States, 1850–60; Appendix A. The four data sets; Appendix B. Index numbers; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Looking for Work Searching for Workers
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Cambridge University Press Globalization and the American Century
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Cambridge University Press Africans and the Industrial Revolution in England A Study in International Trade and Economic Development
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Cambridge University Press Comp Monopoly Fed Res Sys 19141951 A Microeconomic Approach to Monetary History Studies in Macroeconomic History
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Cambridge University Press Economic Theories in China 1979 1988
Book SynopsisThis book systematically explores the substance and logic of the evolution of economic theories prevalent in China from 1979 to 1988. This is the first study in English of the reform decade in China and the first to comment on the significance of theoretical and institutional changes.Trade Review'… this is by far the best single introduction to the thinking of Chinese economists in the reform decade.' The Economic JournalTable of ContentsPreface; 1. Introduction and overview; 2. The market under socialism; 3. Socialism: ownership, state enterprise and planning; 4. Strategies of economic development; 5. Prices and wages; 6. Summaries and conclusions; Notes; Bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press Rowntree and the Marketing Revolution 1862 1969
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Cambridge University Press Grain Markets in Europe 15001900 Integration and Deregulation 7 Cambridge Studies in Modern Economic History Series Number 7
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Cambridge University Press Russias Economic Transitions
Book SynopsisExamines the three major transformations that the country underwent from the early 1860s to 2000. The three transitions originated within different socio-economic settings, but have had a similar primary goal, namely the changing of the economy's ownership pattern in the hopes of providing a better basis for subsequent development.Trade Review'The book is a massive undertaking, covering almost two centuries. Spulber is attempting to look at the three major transitions of Russian economic history - the decision to 'modernize' after the Crimean War, the Soviet industrialization drive and ensuing modernization of the Soviet Union, and the Russian transition after 1991. It is a monumental scholarly effort. No one else has tried such a project, so it will stand alone.' Paul R. Gregory, University of Houston, Texas'Spulber's book on Russia's economic transition is very challenging and commands profound respect.' Financial History ReviewTable of ContentsPreface; Part I. The Tsarist Economic Transition; Section 1. State Economy and Society: 1. The socio-economic framework; 2. The transition issues; 3. The economic policies; Section 2. Sectoral Growth and Change: 4. The problems of agriculture; 5. The industrial changes; 6. Domestic and foreign trade; Section 3. Social Accounting: 7. Money and banking; 8. State finance; 9. Overall view; Part II. The Soviet Economic Transition; Section 1. State Economy and Society: 10. The socio-economic framework; 11. The transition issues; 12. The economic policies; Section 2. Sectoral Growth and Change: 13. The problems of agriculture; 14. The industrial changes; 15. Domestic and foreign trade; Section 3. Social Accounting: 16. Money and banking; 17. State finance; 18. Overall view; Part III. The Post Soviet Economic Transition; Section 1. State Economy and Society: 19. The socio-economic framework; 20. The transition issues; 21. The economic policies; Section 2. Sectoral Growth and Change: 22. The problems of agriculture; 23. The industrial changes; 24. Domestic and foreign trade; Section 3. Social Accounting: 25. Money and banking; 26. State finance; 27. Overall view; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Equilibrium Business Cycle Theory in Historical Perspective
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Cambridge University Press Banking Panics of the Gilded Age
Book SynopsisThis was the first major study of post-Civil War banking panics in almost a century. The author re-evaluates the role of the New York Clearing House, concluding that structural defects of the National Banking Act were not the primary cause of the panics.Trade Review"Elmus Wicker's fascinating new book on banking panics is an imaginative investigation." EH.NET (March2001)"Banking Panics of the Gilded Age...enhances our understanding of the crucial developments leading to the creation of our central bank and financial future...this book does make an important contribution to our understanding of U.S. banking history. Wicker's narrative and empirical support combine to paint a picture of the national banking era that is more comprehensive than previous work. Further, his concentration on Clearing House behavior forces his readers to critically re-evaluate their understanding of banking during the Gilded Age." Eastern Economic ReviewTable of Contents1. The bank panic experience: an overview; 2. The banking panic of 1873; 3. Two incipient banking panics of 1884 and 1890: an unheralded success story; 4. The banking panic of 1893; 5. The trust company panic of 1907; 6. Were panics of the national banking era preventable?; 7. Epilogue; Appendix; References; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Labour Party and Taxation
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Cambridge University Press English Seigniorial Agriculture 1250 1450
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Cambridge University Press Changing Values in Medieval Scotland
Book SynopsisThis 1995 book is a full-scale study of prices in medieval Scotland, c.12601542, which includes detailed discussions of coinage, and weights and measures. This was the first complete study to have been undertaken on Scots medieval prices.Trade Review"...[an] exceptionally valuable work. This work is highly recommended, and it is indispensable for any economic historian of medieval and early-modern Britain." Albion"The excessive amount of effort devoted by the suthors to collecting their data demands a high degree of respect. ...I have the highest regard both for the effort and precision devoted to collecting and processing the data and for the intellectual challenge the interpretations represent.... This book is an illustrative example of the complicated puzzle presented by price history, the solution of which will lead us closer to understanding the ins and outs of both the late medieval and early modern society." Leo Noordegraaf, Journal of Economic HistoryTable of ContentsList of figures; List of tables; Preface; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Price trends in medieval Scotland; 2. Prices in medieval Aberdeen with appendix of documents; 3. Weights and measures; 4. Currency; 5. The price of victual and needful merchandise; 6. Prices and the Scottish economy, 1260–1540; Glossary of unusual terms; Select bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Modernising Lenins Russia
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Cambridge University Press Wall Street to Main Street
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Cambridge University Press U.S. Bank Deregulation in Historical Perspective
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Cambridge University Press European and Islamic Trade in the Early Ottoman State
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Cambridge University Press Science and Corporate Strategy
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Cambridge University Press Bimetallism
Book SynopsisThis history of bimetallic monetary regimes in the Western world shows how changes in coining technology and fiscal systems affected the evolution of monetary regimes. The book explains why bimetallism was preferred to a gold standard before 1800. This book was first published in 2000.Trade Review"Any historian of monetary standards needs not only to read Bimetallism: An Economic and Historical Analysis but also to keep a copy nearby...Redish has produced a wonderful book that any scholar of monetary standards will admire. All in all, my reaction to Bimetallism: An Economic and Historical Analysis is unqualified admiration." EH.Net"Redish has produced a lovely and enlightening study of money systems from the medieval period to the present...The work is beautifully enriched by Redish's excellent integration of historical and economic analysis...A most commendable publication. Highly recommended for lower-division undergraduate through faculty collections." ls Choice"The book provides an anlytical and descriptive history of the monetary standard...'The book attempts to straddle the gap between these two literatures, to allow for more complex monetary system than the economists' 'commodity money' and to find generalities that are buried in the historians' details'. Redish succeeds admirably in this goal." Lawrence H. Officer, Department of Economics, University of Illinois at ChicagoTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; 1. From the Carolingian penny to the Classical gold standard; 2. The mechanics of commodity money; 3. Bimetallism before the nineteenth century; 4. The issue of small-denomination coins; 5. Token coinage and the gold standard in the United Kingdom; 6. Transition to the gold standard in France; 7. Bimetallism in the United States; 8. Conclusions; References; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The CreditAnstalt Crisis of 1931
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Cambridge University Press Europes Postwar Recovery
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Cambridge University Press Enterprise and History
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Cambridge University Press The Trading World of Asia and the English East India Company
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Cambridge University Press Banking in Modern China
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Cambridge University Press The Transition to a Colonial Economy
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Cambridge University Press Southern Paternalism and the American Welfare State
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