This book presents an economic history of Bangkok, the Central Region, the North, the South, and Northeastern Regions from the signing of the Bowring Treaty in 1855 to the present. Most research has focused on Bangkok as the centre of change affecting other regions and has neglected other...

The Moneylenders of Late Medieval Kyoto examines the large community of sake brewer-moneylenders in Japan's capital city, focusing on their rise to prominence from the mid-1300s to 1550. Their guild tie to overlords, notably the great monastery Enryakuji, was forged early in the medieval period,...

Frontmatter -- Preface -- CONTENTS -- ABOUT THE NOTES -- PLATES -- CHARTS -- TABLES -- NOTE BY THE PUBLISHER -- 1. Founding of the Firm -- 2. Marshall Field: Rising Young Merchant -- 3. The Man and the Opportunity -- 4. Field, Leiter and Company: Retail and Wholesale -- 5. Years of Trial -- 6....

"Global decarbonization is humanity's most pressing challenge. Powering Empire offers the first historical roadmap charting how the world was carbonized. It also jettisons some misleading yet prevalent myths and clears impediments to this task. One is the naïve assumption that we are currently...

This monograph is about an exciting episode in the intellectual history of Europe: the vigorous debate among leading Polish historians on the sources of the economic development and non-development, including the origins of economic divisions within Europe. The work covers nearly fifty years of...