Ekonomisk historia

The rise and fall of classical Greece

by Ober, Josiah

fromPrinceton history of the ancient world

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"Lord Byron described Greece as great, fallen, and immortal, a characterization more apt than he knew. Through most of its long history, Greece was poor. But in the classical era, Greece was densely populated and highly urbanized. Many surprisingly healthy Greeks lived in remark…

The rise and fall of classical Greece

by Ober, Josiah

fromPrinceton history of the ancient world

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"Lord Byron described Greece as great, fallen, and immortal, a characterization more apt than he knew. Through most of its long history, Greece was poor. But in the classical era, Greece was densely populated and highly urbanized. Many surprisingly healthy Greeks lived in remark…

The globalization of inequality

by Bourguignon, François

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"In The Globalization of Inequality, distinguished economist and policymaker François Bourguignon examines the complex and paradoxical links between a vibrant world economy that has raised the living standard of over half a billion people in emerging nations such as China, India…

A monetary history of Norway, 1816-2016

by Eitrheim, ℗Øyvind, Klovland, Jan Tore, Øksendal, Lars

fromStudies in macroeconomic history

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This book provides a broad overview of monetary developments in Norway over the past 200 years, using a rich variety of graphical illustrations based on a unique data set of historical monetary statistics, which will be documented and made available on the Norges Bank website (i…

Stuff and money in the time of the French Revolution

by Spang, Rebecca L.

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"This book writes a new history of money. It uses one of the most infamous examples of monetary innovation, the assignats--a currency initially defined by French revolutionaries as circulating land--to demonstrate that money is as much a social and political mediator as it is an…

States versus markets: the emergence of a global economy

by Schwartz, Herman M.

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"States versus Markets shows that globalization is not a novel phenomenon but a recurrent process whereby markets have, since the sixteenth century, periodically redistributed economic activity. This revised and updated new edition takes account of the new rise of Asia and the g…

North Korea: markets and military rule

by Smith, Hazel

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In this historically grounded, richly empirical study of social and economic transformation in North Korea, Hazel Smith evaluates the 'marketization from below' that followed the devastating famine of the early 1990s, estimated to be the cause of nearly one million fatalities. S…

North Korea: Markets and Military Rule

by Smith, Hazel

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In this historically grounded, richly empirical study of social and economic transformation in North Korea, Hazel Smith evaluates the 'marketization from below' that followed the devastating famine of the early 1990s, estimated to be the cause of nearly one million fatalities. S…

Harvesting the sea: the exploitation of marine resources in the Roman…

by Marzano, Annalisa

fromOxford studies on the Roman economy

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Marzano explores the exploitation of marine resources in the Roman world and its role within the economy. Bringing together literary, epigraphic, archaeological, and legal sources, she shows that these marine resources were an important feature of the Roman economy and parallele…

A Historiography of the modern social sciences

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"A Historiography of the Modern Social Sciences includes essays on the ways in which the histories of history, psychology, anthropology, sociology, economics, and political science have been written since the Second World War. Bringing together chapters written by the leading hi…

Africa: why economists get it wrong

by International African Institute, Royal African Society, World Peace Foundation, Jerven, Morten

fromAfrican arguments

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Reframes the debate about Africa's growth or lack thereof, challenging mainstream accounts of African economic history. For the first time in generations, Africa is spoken of these days with enthusiastic hope: no longer seen as a hopeless morass of poverty, the continent instea…

The Great Depression in Latin America

by Drinot, Paulo, Knight, Alan

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Although Latin America weathered the Great Depression better than the United States and Europe, the global economic collapse of the 1930s had a deep and lasting impact on the region. The contributors to this book examine the consequences of the Depression in terms of the role of…

Church building and society in the later Middle Ages

by Byng, Gabriel Thomas Gustav

fromCambridge studies in medieval life and thought

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The construction of a church was undoubtedly one of the most demanding events to take place in the life of a medieval parish. It required a huge outlay of time, money and labour, and often a new organisational structure to oversee design and management. Who took control and who …