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Perspectives in Economic and Social History


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History of Economic Management in North Korea From Planned Economy to Socialist Enterprise System

History of Economic Management in North Korea: From Planned Economy to Socialist Enterprise System

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Phillip Park
September 06, 2024

This book seeks to understand how the economic construction of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) evolved, shaped by the formulation and execution of various economic management systems spanning the years 1949 to 2023, in response to numerous challenges faced by the country. Split ...

History of Finance Capital in America The Great Depression and Interwar Years

History of Finance Capital in America: The Great Depression and Interwar Years

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Go Tian Kang
April 23, 2024

Go details through institutional analysis how major financial institutions (including banks and insurance companies), industries, and the U.S. government behaved and linked with each other during the Great Depression and Inter-War period. Drawing on data that has not been widely used since the late...

Social Cohesion and Welfare States From Fragmentation to Social Peace

Social Cohesion and Welfare States: From Fragmentation to Social Peace

1st Edition

Edited By Christopher Lloyd, Matti Hannikainen
January 29, 2024

Aiming to go beyond reiterating the stereotypical narrative of the rise of welfare states, this interdisciplinary book examines the long-run historical processes of the development of the welfare state. It focuses on the complex political, social, economic and institutional transformations which ...

Queer Trades, Sex and Society Male Prostitution and the War on Homosexuality in Interwar Scotland

Queer Trades, Sex and Society: Male Prostitution and the War on Homosexuality in Interwar Scotland

1st Edition

By Jeffrey Meek
June 01, 2023

This book is the first scholarly work to explore male homosexual prostitution in interwar Scotland. The male prostitute occupies a contested position within interwar society – depending on the perspective he was representative of a descent into turpitude, of tenacious organised criminality or of ...

National Brands and Global Markets An Historical Perspective

National Brands and Global Markets: An Historical Perspective

1st Edition

Edited By Nikolas Glover, David M. Higgins
February 02, 2023

Between Brexit, efforts to ‘Make America great again’, and ongoing appeals for patriotic consumption to boost economies, the intersection between national identity, marketing campaigns, and consumer choices has been brought to the fore. This book maps out this terrain and provides a framework for ...

A History of Cold War Industrialisation Finnish Shipbuilding between East and West

A History of Cold War Industrialisation: Finnish Shipbuilding between East and West

1st Edition

By Saara Matala
January 09, 2023

This monograph explores the economic consequences of the Cold War, a polarised world order which politicised technology and shaped industrial development. It provides a detailed archival-based history of the Finnish shipbuilding industry (1952–1996), which f lourished, thanks to the special ...

North Eurasian Trade in World History, 1660–1860 The Economic and Political Importance of the Baltic Sea

North Eurasian Trade in World History, 1660–1860: The Economic and Political Importance of the Baltic Sea

1st Edition

By Werner Scheltjens
January 09, 2023

This book offers the first long-term analysis of the protracted struggle between Britain, France, Prussia, Russia, and Sweden for economic power and political influence in the northern part of the Eurasian continent between 1660 and 1860. This book shows how their commercial, diplomatic, and ...

The Nordic Economic, Social and Political Model Challenges in the 21st Century

The Nordic Economic, Social and Political Model: Challenges in the 21st Century

1st Edition

Edited By Anu Koivunen, Jari Ojala, Janne Holmén
January 09, 2023

The Nordic Model is the 20th-century Scandinavian recipe for combining stable democracies, individual freedom, economic growth and comprehensive systems for social security. But what happens when Sweden and Finland – two countries topping global indexes for competitiveness, productivity, growth, ...

Shadow Economies in the Globalising World Smuggling in Scandinavia, 1766–1806

Shadow Economies in the Globalising World: Smuggling in Scandinavia, 1766–1806

1st Edition

By Anna Knutsson
December 30, 2022

From West Indian sugar and bottles of Southeast Asian arrack to French red wines, English felt cloth, and Mediterranean lemons, many global wares ended up in the Scandinavian borderlands during the late eighteenth century. This book explores how and why these goods came to be there and analyses ...

Agriculture and the Great Depression The Rural Crisis of the 1930s in Europe and the Americas

Agriculture and the Great Depression: The Rural Crisis of the 1930s in Europe and the Americas

1st Edition

Edited By Gérard Béaur, Francesco Chiapparino
December 14, 2022

What role did the agricultural sector play in the economic crash of 1929? Taking evidence from country cases across Europe and the Americas, this edited volume explores short-, medium- and long- term perspectives on the primary sector. The monograph brings together the voices of an international ...

Luxury, Fashion and the Early Modern Idea of Credit

Luxury, Fashion and the Early Modern Idea of Credit

1st Edition

Edited By Klas Nyberg, Håkan Jakobsson
May 30, 2022

Luxury, Fashion and the Early Modern Idea of Credit addresses how social and cultural ideas about credit and trust, in the context of fashion and trade, were affected by the growth and development of the bankruptcy institution.   Luxury, fashion and social standing are intimately connected to ...

Credit and Debt in Eighteenth-Century England An Economic History of Debtors’ Prisons

Credit and Debt in Eighteenth-Century England: An Economic History of Debtors’ Prisons

1st Edition

By Alexander Wakelam
May 06, 2022

Throughout the eighteenth century hundreds of thousands of men and women were cast into prison for failing to pay their debts. This apparently illogical system where debtors were kept away from their places of work remained popular with creditors into the nineteenth century even as Britain ...

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