Large city fires were a huge threat in premodern Central European every-day life; only quite late, institutional forms of fire insurances emerged as a post-disaster instrument of damage recovery. During the nineteenth century, insurance agencies spread through the World forming a plurality of...

Trials of Convergence analyses the nineteenth century industrialization of the Netherlands from the perspective of prices and factor costs. It shows that its retarded transition was due to the confluent effect of open economy forces, endowments and the erratic adjustment of economic and fiscal...

Intro -- Navigating History: Economy, Society, Knowledge,and Nature: Essays in Honour of Prof. Dr C.A. Davids -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Davids and Goliath: How Books Helped to Combat Historians' Adversaries -- Part 1: Resources of...

Intro -- Actors of Globalization: New York Merchants in Global Trade, 1784-1812 -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Illustrations -- Merchant Biographies -- Introduction -- Globalization in History -- The Merchants of the Study -- Global History -- Synopsis -- 1...

Intro -- Public Finance of the Dutch Republic in Comparative: Perspective The Viability of an Early Modern Federal State (1570s-1795) -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Map -- General Introduction -- The Question at Stake -- Possible Answers -- The...

India, Modernity and the Great Divergence: Mysore and Gujarat (17th to 19th C.) -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Problem of Quotation and Transliteration -- List of Illustrations -- List of Abbreviations -- Glossary -- Maps -- Introduction -- 0.1) Preliminary Remarks...

An Agrarian History of Portugal, 1000-2000: Economic Development on the European Frontier -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- Part 1: State Formation and Malthusian Growth -- 1 The Reconquista and Its Legacy, 1000-1348...

<i>Coordination in Transition</i> analyzes the evolution of the institutional structure of the Dutch political economy since 1950, focusing on the constant adaptation of deliberative institutions to structural economic change

In Breaking into the Monopoly, Yukihisa Kumagai examines how the commercial pressure groups of Glasgow, Liverpool, and Manchester organised campaigns to end the British East India Company's monopoly from 1812-1813 and 1829-1833.