and the United States have been faced with following the end of the Cold War and in the evolving era of globalization …

zentralen Entwicklungslinien heraus, die die Geschichte des modernen Massenkonsums im Wesentlichen geprägt haben. Zum Schluss …

on globalization; the international division of labour and how transnational economic processes shaped and continue to …-ranging study which will be of great interest to historians, economists and Asia specialists …

The world has still to emerge fully from the housing-triggered Global Financial Crisis, but housing crises are not new …. The history of housing shows long-run social progress, littered with major disasters; nevertheless the progress is often …

from the Middle Ages to today. It radically rethinks previous attempts at a history of monetary institutions by avoiding …

In the modern Western world, we tend to be insured by the state or for-profit insurers. We have privileged this system … over mutual or micro-insurance, whose long and rich history we tend to forget. Yet, mutual and micro-insurance is becoming … increasingly important, both in the Western and in the non-Western world and bears re-examination. This book traces the track …