Economic History

Across the Borders explores the transnational history of railway economics in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It is the first systematic historical investigation into the world-wide system of railway financing, providing a wide introduction to how financiers, governments and entrepreneurs in..

Across the Borders explores the transnational history of railway economics in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It is the first systematic historical investigation into the world-wide system of railway financing, providing a wide introduction to how financiers, governments and entrepreneurs in..

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Agrarian Problems in the Sixteenth Century and After..

This book was first published in 1932...

This study of economic fluctuations over a period of seven hundred years has long been established as a core text in European agricultural history. Using international data, similarities in economic development are demonstrated...

This book uses a global history approach in order to reach a greater understanding of the agricultural transformation process, using a wide number of comparisons over time and space. The book seeks to identify key factors for agricultural transformation, through the use of micro level case studies, ..

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Alan S. Milward was a renowned historian of contemporary Europe. In addition to his books, as well as articles and chapters in edited books, he also wrote nearly 250 book reviews and review articles, some in French and German, which were published in journals world-wide. Taken together they reveal a..

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

The recent banking crisis has brought into question the business model used by most large banks. This collection of essays explores the success of ‘alternative banks’ – savings banks, cooperative banks and development banks, using case studies from around the world and discussion of both the histori..

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...