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  • Property, Power and the Growth of Towns

    Enterprise and Urban Development,1100-1500

    by Catherine Casson, Mark Casson ...
    Series series Routledge Explorations in Economic History
    Local enterprise, institutional quality and strategic location were of central importance in the growth of medieval towns. This book, comprising a study of 112 English towns, emphasises these key factors. Downstream locations on major rivers attracted international trade, and thereby stimulated the local processing of imports and exports, while the early establishment of richly endowed religious ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Evolutions of Capitalism

    Historical Perspectives, 1200–2000

    Edited by Catherine Casson, Philipp Robinson Rössner ...
    This ambitious collection follows the evolution of capitalism from its origins in 13th-century European towns to its 16th-century expansion into Asia, Africa and South America and on to the global capitalism of modern day.Written by distinguished historians and social scientists, the chapters examine capitalism and its critics and the level of variation and convergence in its operation across ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • Compassionate Capitalism

    Business and Community in Medieval England

    by Catherine Casson, Mark Casson, John S. Lee, Katie Phillips ...
    It may seem like a recent trend, but businesses have been practising compassionate capitalism for nearly a thousand years.Based on the newly discovered historical documents on Cambridge’s sophisticated urban property market during the Commercial Revolution in the thirteenth century, this book explores how successful entrepreneurs employed the wealth they had accumulated to the benefit of the ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Business and Community in Medieval England

    The Cambridge Hundred Rolls Source Volume

    by Catherine Casson, Mark Casson, John S. Lee, Katie Phillips ...
    One of the most important manuscripts surviving from thirteenth-century England, the corpus of documents known as the Hundred Rolls for Cambridge have been incomplete until the recent discovery of an additional roll.This invaluable volume replaces the previous inaccurate transcription by the record commission of 1818 and provides new translations and additional appendices.Shedding new light on ... Read more

    $47.69 USD

  • Crises in Economic and Social History

    A Comparative Perspective

    by A.T. Brown, John Martin, John S. Lee, John Singleton, Josette Duncan, Mark Casson, Matthew Hollow, Pamela Nightingale, Paul Warde, Pavla Jirkova0, Peter H. Bent1, Andy Burn3, Philip Slavin4, Ranald C Michie5, Rob Doherty6, Samuel K. Cohn8, Alan Knight9, Anne L. Murphy0, Catherine Casson1, Cinzia Lorandini2 ...
    This collection of essays brings together historians examining social and economic crises from the thirteenth century to the twenty-first. Crisis is an almost ubiquitous concept for historians, applicable across (amongst others) the histories of agriculture, disease, finance and trade. Yet there has been little attempt to compare its use as an explanatory tool between these discrete fields of ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • A Farewell to Alms

    A Brief Economic History of the World

    by Gregory Clark ...
    Series series The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
    Why are some parts of the world so rich and others so poor? Why did the Industrial Revolution--and the unprecedented economic growth that came with it--occur in eighteenth-century England, and not at some other time, or in some other place? Why didn't industrialization make the whole world rich--and why did it make large parts of the world even poorer? In A Farewell to Alms, Gregory Clark tackles ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Capitalism

    A Very Short Introduction

    by James Fulcher ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    What is capitalism? Is capitalism the same everywhere? Is there an alternative? The word 'capitalism' is one that is heard and used frequently, but what is capitalism really all about, and what does it mean? This Very Short Introduction addresses questions such as 'what is capital?' before discussing the history and development of capitalism through several detailed case studies, ranging from the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Capitalism: A Very Short Introduction

    by James Fulcher ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    What is capitalism? Is capitalism the same everywhere? Is there an alternative? The word 'capitalism' is one that is heard and used frequently, but what is capitalism really all about, and what does it mean? The book begins by addressing basic issues such as 'what is capital?' before discussing the history and development of capitalism through three detailed and absorbing case studies ranging from ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Industrial Revolution

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Robert C. Allen ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The 'Industrial Revolution' was a pivotal point in British history that occurred between the mid-eighteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries and led to far reaching transformations of society. With the advent of revolutionary manufacturing technology productivity boomed. Machines were used to spin and weave cloth, steam engines were used to provide reliable power, and industry was fed by the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Invention of Enterprise

    Entrepreneurship from Ancient Mesopotamia to Modern Times

    Edited by Joel Mokyr, David S. Landes, William J. Baumol ...
    Series series The Kauffman Foundation Series on Innovation and Entrepreneurship
    A sweeping global history of entrepreneurial innovationWhether hailed as heroes or cast as threats to social order, entrepreneurs—and their innovations—have had an enormous influence on the growth and prosperity of nations. The Invention of Enterprise gathers together, for the first time, leading economic historians to explore the entrepreneur's role in society from antiquity to the present. ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Europe: Volume 1, 1700–1870

    by Stephen Broadberry, Kevin H. O'Rourke ...
    Series series The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Europe
    Unlike most existing textbooks on the economic history of modern Europe, which offer a country-by-country approach, The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Europe rethinks Europe's economic history since 1700 as unified and pan-European, with the material organised by topic rather than by country. This first volume is centred on the transition to modern economic growth, which first occurred in ... Read more

    $54.19 USD

  • The Evolution of Great World Cities

    Urban Wealth and Economic Growth

    by Christopher Kennedy ...
    Some cities seem destined to become major financial capitals, yet never do—Seville, for instance, was the centre of Spain's opulent New World Empire, but failed to become a financial metropolis. Others, like former colonial backwater Hong Kong, defy the odds by growing into major trading centres. What are the key factors distinguishing those cities that become wealthy from those that don't? ... Read more

    $28.79 USD