Twentieth-century Europe was an intense laboratory of capitalist experimentation. Confronted with economic booms and crises, technological revolutions, and economic globalization, Western Europe's governments constantly explored alternative ways of managing domestic economic systems and...

As China emerges as a global powerhouse, this timely book examines its economic past and the shaping of its financial institutions. The first comparative study of foreign banking in prewar China, the book surveys the impact of British overseas bank notes on China's economy before the outbreak of...

Regulated Lives explores the British life insurance industry's changing assessments of the values and risks of human life between 1800 and 1914. Timothy Alborn's unique study uses insurance practices to demonstrate how Victorian ideas about the lived experience altered both to accommodate and...

Die Mehrzahl britischer Gemeinden ist mit einer alternden Bevölkerung konfrontiert, wobei Küstengebiete und ländliche Räume als Altersruhesitz bevorzugt werden. Die britische Zentralregierung hat vergleichsweise früh begonnen, sich mit dieser Herausforderung zu beschäftigen und gibt den...