This book looks at the one of the key commercial links between the Baltic and Atlantic worlds in the eighteenth century - the export of Swedish and Russian iron to Britain - and its role in the making of the modern world.

Utilising a variety of contemporary commercial, diplomatic and judiciary sources, Grimshaw traces and analyses how England and Sweden forged the most pivotal commercial relationship of the seventeenth century

The coalition of the willing and the breakthrough of the welfare state : the political history of the Danish people's pension / Klaus Petersen & Jørn Henrik Petersen -- From Bismarck to the new pension orthodoxy : the historical development of the pension system in Hungary / Dorottya Szikra --...

The state of poverty in the United States and Western Europe: five theoretical approaches seeking to explain the variance -- The challenge to America -- The historical experience -- Attitudes, beliefs, and values -- System differences as explanations -- The role of political elites -- The role...