This book explores the British Labour Party and the trade unions and how their relationship with the Jews of Palestine and Israel has evolved over the past one hundred years. It also reflects the changing attitudes of the Labour Party and the unions towards the persecution of the Jews, a Jewish...

This book provides a critical analysis of visual images of British and international finance during the nineteenth century. Its focus is on the financiers themselves, contrasting the depiction of the respectable Merchant Princes with the less than perfect charlatans (white-collar criminals) who...

"Drawing on a wealth of understudied sources, historian Eleanor Hubbard explores the labor conflicts behind the rise of the English maritime empire. Freewheeling Elizabethan privateering attracted thousands of young men to the sea, where they acquired valuable skills and a reputation for...

Adam Smith war nicht nur der wichtigste Vordenker von Kapitalismus und Marktwirtschaft, sondern auch ihr erster grundlegender Kritiker. Das zeigt Gerhard Streminger in seiner fulminanten, aus den Quellen gearbeiteten Biographie des "ökonomischen Luther", wie Friedrich Engels Smith einmal...