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By: Claire Priest
ISBN: 9780691158761
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2021
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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How American colonists laid the foundations of American capitalism with an economy built on credit. Even before the United States became a country, laws prioritizing access to credit set colonial America apart from the rest of the world. Credit Nation examines how the drive to expand credit shaped property laws and legal institutions in the colonial and founding eras of the republic.
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By: Charles W. Calomiris
ISBN: 9780691155241
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Why are banking systems unstable in so many countries - but not in others Analyzing the political and banking history of the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Brazil through several centuries, this book demonstrates that chronic banking crises and scarce credit are not accidents due to unforeseen circumstances.
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By: Didac Queralt
ISBN: 9780691231426
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2022
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Didac Queralt
ISBN: 9780691231525
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2022
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Maarten Prak
ISBN: 9780691242330
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2024
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Hardback)
By: Kyle Harper
ISBN: 9780691192123
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2021
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Kyle Harper
ISBN: 9780691230597
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2023
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Hardback)
By: Richard N. Langlois
ISBN: 9780691246987
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2023
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Hardback)
By: David Stasavage
ISBN: 9780691177465
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2020
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)
By: David Stasavage
ISBN: 9780691228976
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2021
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Sheilagh Ogilvie
ISBN: 9780691217024
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2021
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback, Revised edition)
By: Robert J. Gordon
ISBN: 9780691175805
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2017
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Hardback)
By: Taco Terpstra
ISBN: 9780691172088
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2019
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Cormac Grda
ISBN: 9780691070155
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 2000
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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The Irish famine peaked in Black '47, but it brought misery and increased mortality to Ireland for several years. This title presents the Great Irish Famine from a variety of perspectives. It concentrates on fresh insights available through interdisciplinary and comparative methods. It highlights several economic and sociological features.
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By: Oscar Gelderblom
ISBN: 9780691168203
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Cities of Commerce develops a model of institutional change in European commerce based on urban rivalry. Cities continuously competed with each other by adapting commercial, legal, and financial institutions to the evolving needs of merchants. Oscar Gelderblom traces the successive rise of Bruges, Antwerp, and Amsterdam to commercial primacy betwee
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By: Eric L. Jones
ISBN: 9780691117379
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jun 2006
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Looks at the question of whether culture determines economics or is instead determined by it. This book questions cultural explanations of much social behavior in Europe, East Asia, the United States, Australia, and the Middle East. It also examines contemporary globalization.
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By: Eric L. Jones
ISBN: 9780691171043
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Hardback)
By: Philip T. Hoffman
ISBN: 9780691182179
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2019
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Giovanni Federico
ISBN: 9780691138534
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2009
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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In the last 2 centuries, agriculture has been an outstanding success story. Agriculture has fed population with a variety of products at falling prices, even as it has released a number of workers to the rest of the economy. This book explains how these feats were accomplished. It covers various factors that have affected agricultural performance.
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By: Charles W. Calomiris
ISBN: 9780691168357
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2015
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Why are banking systems unstable in so many countries--but not in others The United States has had twelve systemic banking crises since 1840, while Canada has had none. The banking systems of Mexico and Brazil have not only been crisis prone but have provided miniscule amounts of credit to business enterprises and households. Analyzing the politic
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By: Philip T. Hoffman
ISBN: 9780691070087
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 2000
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Shatters the myth that traditional agricultural societies in early modern Europe were socially and economically stagnant. Through a detailed historical investigation of the peasant agriculture of ancien-regime France, this book uncovers evidence that requires an understanding of what constituted economic growth in such societies.
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By: Mauricio Drelichman
ISBN: 9780691173771
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2017
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Hardback)
By: Richard Saller
ISBN: 9780691229546
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2022
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Daniel R. Headrick
ISBN: 9780691154329
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2012
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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For six hundred years, the nations of Europe and North America have periodically attempted to coerce, invade, or conquer other societies. They have relied on their superior technology to do so, yet these technologies have not always guaranteed success. This title examines Western imperialism's complex relationship with technology.
