States of Credit provides the first comprehensive look at the joint development of representative assemblies and public borrowing in Europe during the medieval and early modern eras. In this pioneering book, David Stasavage argues that unique advances in political representation allowed certain...

Power to the People examines the varied but interconnected relationships between energy consumption and economic development in Europe over the last five centuries. It describes how the traditional energy economy of medieval and early modern Europe was marked by stable or falling per capita...

"The merchants of the medieval Hanse monopolised trade in the Baltic and North Sea areas. The authors describe the structure of their trade system in terms of network organisation and attempts to explain, on the grounds of institutional economics, the coordination of the merchants' commercial...

Despite being an integral part of modern economic science, the subject of financial economics has deep historical roots. Geoffrey Poitras provides an exhaustive account of the early development of the subject and, in so doing, provides a sound basis for the study of modern financial economics....

Introduction -- The importance of warfare -- Europe's urban rise -- Evaluating the safe harbor effect -- Evaluating the warfare-to-wealth effect -- Warfare to wealth in comparative perspective -- Epilogue

Chapter 1. Gender and Migration: an historical and inclusive perspective (Beatrice Zucca Michelletto) -- Part 1: Institutions, law and identity -- Chapter 2. Tracing migration within urban spaces: women’s mobility and identification practices in Venice (sixteenth-eighteenth centuries) (Teresa...

Providing a comprehensive yet compact survey of the growth of American economic influence in Europe since the 1880s, this book summarizes the discussion by business historians, sociologists, and political scientists and makes it accessible to all types of readers who are interested in political...

This title tells the story of the principal European intellectual professions from the demise of the ancient regime to the rise of the European Union. A historical study which applies sociological concepts, it creates a European-scale picture of the professions spanning over two centuries of change