"Professor Nicholas Mayhew is Professor of Numismatics and Monetary History at Oxford, a former Deputy Director of the Ashmolean Museum, Director of the Winton Institute for Monetary History and Fellow of St Cross College. Over the course of his forty-year career, Mayhew has mad…
"Professor Nicholas Mayhew is Professor of Numismatics and Monetary History at Oxford, a former Deputy Director of the Ashmolean Museum, Director of the Winton Institute for Monetary History and Fellow of St Cross College. Over the course of his forty-year career, Mayhew has mad…
"Professor Nicholas Mayhew is Professor of Numismatics and Monetary History at Oxford, a former Deputy Director of the Ashmolean Museum, Director of the Winton Institute for Monetary History and Fellow of St Cross College. Over the course of his forty-year career, Mayhew has mad…
"Professor Nicholas Mayhew is Professor of Numismatics and Monetary History at Oxford, a former Deputy Director of the Ashmolean Museum, Director of the Winton Institute for Monetary History and Fellow of St Cross College. Over the course of his forty-year career, Mayhew has mad…
"Ce livre est l'histoire d'une entreprise oubliée : le Comité international d'histoire des prix. Si l'objet est d'intérêt, c'est que les échecs tout autant que les réussites nous renseignent sur le fonctionnement social. C'est aussi que l'on retrouve, autour de cette enquête fai…
La quatrième de couv. indique : "Ce livre est l'histoire d'une entreprise oubliée : le Comité international d'histoire des prix. Si l'objet est d'intérêt, c'est que les échecs tout autant que les réussites nous renseignent sur le fonctionnement social. C'est aussi que l'on retro…
Collating the evidence, going far beyond mere economic data, Fischer writes a powerful history of the people of the Western world describing the politics, culture and society they built upon the economic patterns they lived in.
David Hackett Fischer, one of our most prominent historians, has garnered a reputation for making history come alive--even stories as familiar as Paul Revere's ride, or as complicated as the assimilation of British culture in North America. Now, in The Great Wave, Fischer has do…
"These crises happened in the fourteenth, seventeenth, and late eighteenth centuries. They were followed by long periods of comparative equilibrium : the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and the Victorian era. In all of these eras prices fell and stabilized, wages rose, and inequ…
David Hackett Fischer, one of our most prominent historians, has garnered a reputation for making history come alive - even stories as familiar as Paul Revere's ride, or as complicated as the assimilation of British culture in North America. Now, in The Great Wave, Fischer has d…