Chapter 1: Introduction. Women’s work in the Netherlands and Java, 1830-1940 -- Chapter 2: An exceptional empire? Dutch … -- Chapter 5: Contrasting consumption: Household income and living standards in the Netherlands and Java, 1870-1940 -- Chapter 6 …‘This book makes an important contribution to the history of household labour relations in two contrasting societies …

insurance of insurers) in the insurance markets of eight countries: USA, Netherlands, Sweden, France, Spain, Italy, Mexico and … Japan. All the contributors are experts in their field and have widely published in insurance history, providing the reader … with new insights into the insurance and economic history of these countries. In particular, this is the first book to …

that occurred in Ireland, the Netherlands, Spain, and Turkey, this book investigates the determinants and consequences of … Miracles - Introduction -- Chapter 2 Intense Economic Growth in Economic History and Economic Theory -- Chapter 3 Political …

, academics, and students of financial history and financial markets. Donatella Strangio is a Full Professor of Economic History …

have remained stagnant or worse, have deteriorated into failed states? This book offers a history of thought perspective on …

historians to think more about business and business historians to think more about gender and create a global history that is …