"The monetary and financial dimensions of economic sanctions have become critical components of sanctions strategies. A wider range of monetary and financial assets, entities (including central banks), and services are now targeted. Financial institutions, infrastructures, regulators and central...

"The Battle for Control of the Brass and Instruments Business in the French Industrial Revolution narrates and analyzes the largest judicial battle in culture and industrial property in nineteenth century Europe, the echoes of which still ring today."

"Cash transfers, or the provision of money to people by the state, reach hundreds of million people worldwide. But when did they start, and how did they spread over countries and centuries? How did past practices look like, and how did they evolve? Why, despite compelling evidence, are...

"Biotraffic delves into the complex world of biological resource trade, taking readers inside the contemporary Ciskei region of South Africa, a once-notorious apartheid 'homeland' turned extractive hub for wild medicinal plants. Drawing from in-depth ethnographic fieldwork and archival research,...

Fraudulent Lives analyzes the scale, meaning, and consequences of welfare fraud in a Western nation from the seventeenth century to present day. It argues that fraud is written into the fabric of the founding statues of the British welfare state - and eliminating it has never been in the nations...