Over the past two centuries, economic growth has freed billions from the struggle for subsistence and made our lives far healthier and longer. Yet prosperity has come at a price: environmental destruction, desolation of local cultures, the rise of vast inequalities and destabilizing...

Introduction / John T. Fitzgerald, David B. Hollander, and Thomas R. Blanton IV -- The extramercantile economy : an assessment of the new institutional economics : paradigm in relation to recent studies of ancient Greece and Rome / Thomas R. Blanton IV and David B. Hollander -- Early Greek...

"This collection takes a multi-perspective approach in the study of empire and commodities beyond temporal and spatial boundaries. From early modern Venetian trade to tea in the Eurasian world, the role of gold in Portuguese imperial ambitions and British sailors as traders, Across Colonial...

"This edited volume explores the development of the European book world between 1650 and 1750, concentrating on changes in publishing strategies, practices of censorship, the circulation of second-hand books and the building of libraries. Its essays discuss this critical, but much neglected...