An overview of trends in women's work across Europe from the pre-industrial period to the present. This book focuses on the defining role of gender and class and compares rates of change in different European countries

Combining theoretical work with careful historical description and analysis of new data sources, History Matters makes a strong case for a more historical approach to economics, both by argument and by example. Seventeen original essays, written by distinguished economists and economic...

There can be no doubt about the enduring significance and the immense historical impact of the national question, yet its economic dimension has been little examined. This volume deals with the national question in the light of specifically economic change against a changing social and political...

This reconstruction of the guilds that functioned in Jerusalem during the Ottoman period draws on the archives of the local court of Muslim Jerusalem, but also includes information on the Jewish and Christan communities. About 50 different guilds are described

Our understanding of what constituted the industrial revolution has changed fundamentally in recent decades. Sir E. A. Wrigley, the leading historian of industrial England, here sets out to expose the inadequacy of what was once the received wisdom and to suggest what he believes should stand in...

Human Capital and Institutions brings to the fore the role of political, social, and economic institutions in human capital formation and economic growth. Written by leading economic historians, the chapters in this text offer a broad-based view of instit

Explores the interactions of 19th century American merchants with the Japanese in the treaty port system, how the Japanese leadership manipulated them, and how the merchants themselves defined the limitations of American business in Japan