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By: Astrid Kander
ISBN: 9780691143620
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Describes how the traditional energy economy of medieval and early modern Europe was marked by stable or falling per capita energy consumption, and how the First Industrial Revolution in the eighteenth century - fueled by coal and steam engines - redrew the economic, social, and geopolitical map of Europe and the world.
(Hardback)
By: David Stasavage
ISBN: 9780691140575
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2011
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Provides a look at the joint development of representative assemblies and public borrowing in Europe during the medieval and early modern eras. This title argues that advances in political representation allowed certain European states to gain early and advantageous access to credit.
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By: Barry Eichengreen
ISBN: 9780691138480
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Sep 2008
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Over the second half of the twentieth century, the average European's buying power tripled, while working hours fell by a third. This work offers an account of the extraordinary development of Europe's economy since the end of World War II.
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By: Daniel Berkowitz
ISBN: 9780691136042
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2012
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Based on evidence about the development of the American states from the mid-nineteenth to the late twentieth century, this book documents the mechanisms through which geographical and historical conditions - such as climate, access to water transportation, and early legal systems - impacted political and judicial institutions and economic growth.
(Hardback)
By: Ian Kumekawa
ISBN: 9780691163482
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2017
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)
By: John B Elliott
ISBN: 9780708318904
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2005
Publisher: University of Wales Press
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(Paperback)
By: James Piereson
ISBN: 9781594037856
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2014
Publisher: Encounter Books,USA
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(Hardback)
By: J. Geraint Jenkins
ISBN: 9780708311233
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 1992
Publisher: University of Wales Press
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This text is a full-scale survey of Welsh coastal fishermen, past and present. It looks at traditional Welsh fishing methods, the fish found around Welsh coasts, the men and women whose livlihood depended on the catch, and the development of the fishing industry in the larger ports.
(Hardback)
By: Joseph Zeira
ISBN: 9780691199450
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2022
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Hardback)
By: W. Walker Hanlon
ISBN: 9780691213415
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2025
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Hardback)
By: Patrick Wallis
ISBN: 9780691265315
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2025
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Hardback)
By: Avner Offer
ISBN: 9780691166032
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2017
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Grzegorz Konat
ISBN: 9798888903537
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2025
Publisher: Haymarket Books
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(Hardback)
By: Francesco Boldizzoni
ISBN: 9780691144009
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2011
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Challenges the hold that cliometrics - an approach to economic history that employs the analytical tools of economists - has exerted on the study of our economic past. This book calls for the reconstruction of economic history, one in which history and the social sciences are brought to bear on economics, and not the other way around.
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By: Christopher A Whatley
ISBN: 9781399537827
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2025
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
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Describes and reassesses the long-term industrial development of Dundee, emphasising the ever-shifting dynamics of textile production in shaping the city's history
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By: Peter H. Lindert
ISBN: 9780691170497
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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"Unequal Gains offers a radically new understanding of the economi c evolution of the United States, providing a complete picture of the uneven progress of America from colonial times to today."--Provided by publisher.
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By: Peter H. Lindert
ISBN: 9780691178271
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2018
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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"Unequal Gains offers a radically new understanding of the economi c evolution of the United States, providing a complete picture of the uneven progress of America from colonial times to today."--Provided by publisher.
(Hardback)
By: evket Pamuk
ISBN: 9780691166377
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2019
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Hardback)
By: Marieke de Goede
ISBN: 9780816644148
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2005
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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A revealing examination of the often misunderstood history of contemporary financial markets.
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By: Marieke de Goede
ISBN: 9780816644155
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2005
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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A revealing examination of the often misunderstood history of contemporary financial markets.
(Hardback)
By: David Colander
ISBN: 9780691179209
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2019
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Hardback)
By: S. Rosenberg
ISBN: 9780333345337
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2002
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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This book provides an historical analysis of postwar economic development in the United States. Samuel Rosenberg investigates three postwar phases: the creation of an institutional framework setting the stage for prosperity in the U.S. after World War II.
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By: Catherine Eagleton
ISBN: 9780714118147
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2008
Publisher: British Museum Press
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From simple exchange systems in earliest times to the cashless society of our own day, this book presents an introduction to the history of money. With the aid of over 500 illustrations, it explores the origins, spread and especially the cultural diversity of monetary exchange throughout the world, viewed against an economic and social background.
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By: Brad de Long
ISBN: 9781399803427
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2022
Publisher: John Murray Press
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From one of the world's leading economists, a grand narrative of the century that made us richer than ever, yet left us unsatisfied.
