Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Editorial -- The Contributors -- Notes for Contributors -- Special Issue: Patents in History -- Introduction. An Imperfection of Institutions -- Notes and References -- Antecedents to Intellectual Property: the European Pre-history of the...

In this new volume of Research in Economic History, editors Christopher Hanes and Susan Wolcott bring together a cast of expert contributors to vigorously interrogate and analyze historic economics questions, looking across the political economy of the US, European history, and longstanding...

Cover -- RESEARCH IN ECONOMIC HISTORY -- RESEARCH IN ECONOMICHISTORY: VOLUME 36 -- RESEARCH IN ECONOMIC HISTORY -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 - Specializations in Switzerland in the Nineteenth Century: Evolution of Trade Patterns and Growth Model --...

Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES AND ILLUSTRATIONS -- TABLES -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- Desertion in Global History -- Introduction: Leaving Work Across the World -- Notes -- 1 Runaways: A Global History -- When labour market met military...

Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- INTRODUCTION -- The importance, role and function of the state: The cases of Great Britain and China -- HISTORIOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTION: TRADITIONAL VIEWS AND ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIVES -- The persistence of the traditional view: Britain as an...

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Intro -- About the book -- Title page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Tables and figures -- Acknowledgements -- A note on authorship -- Introduction: a critical introduction to business and society -- 1 | The emergence of capitalism in Western Europe -- 2 | The spread of capitalism -- 3 | The...

Recent revisionist history has questioned the degree of social and economic change attributable to the French Revolution. Some historians have also claimed that the Revolution was primarily an urban affair with little relevance to the rural masses. This book tests these ideas by examining the...

This book focuses on the trans-Meiji Restoration story of the ideological transformation that made modern capitalism possible in Japan. To illustrate this transformation, the book looks at four key architects of Meiji Japan's capitalist institutions: Okubo Toshimichi, Godai Tomoatsu, Matsukata...