This volume documents recent efforts to track the transformation and trajectory of silver during the early modern period, from its origins in ores located on either side of the Atlantic to its use as currency in the financial centres of continental Europe. As a point of comparison, copper mining...

"Modern economics tantalizes historians, promising them a set of simple verbal and mathematical formulas to explain and even retrospectively predict historical actions and choices. Colin P. Elliott challenges economic historians to rethink the way they use economic theory. Building upon the...

2018 ist „Schicht im Schacht“. Dann schließen in Bottrop und Ibbenbüren die letzten deutschen Steinkohlenbergwerke. Damit endet eine Epoche, in der die Kohle die Geschichte Europas maßgeblich bestimmt hat. Diesen Abschied nehmen das Essener Ruhr Museum und das Deutsche Bergbau-Museum...