Chapter 1: Introductory Remarks -- Chapter 2: Grand Narratives in Premodern Economic History -- Chapter 3: Introduction into the Study of Production -- Chapter 4: Introduction into the Study of Markets -- Chapter 5: Introduction into the Study of Money and Credit -- Chapter 6: Reviewed Sample...

This edited collection demonstrates how economic history can be analysed using both quantitative and qualitative methods, connecting statistical research with the social, cultural and psychological aspects of history. With their focus on the time between the end of the commercial revolution and...

Finance in the Middle Ages and the Scholastic tradition -- Credit and faith in medieval Iberia : the road not taken -- Early European finance 1050-1650 -- Transcending feudal finance in Western Europe -- Mercantile credit and the Atlantic slave trade -- Chayanov, Marx, and hidden interests in...

Andre Gunder Frank asks us to ReOrient our views away from Eurocentrism to see the rise of the West as a mere blip in what was, and is again becoming, an Asia-centered world. In a challenge to received historiography and social theory he turns on its head the world according to Marx, Weber, and...