Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Institution: designed system faced by Ming merchants -- Chapter 3: Monopoly: merchants and monarchy -- Chapter 4: Taxation: levy on merchants -- Chapter 5: International Trade: merchants’ predicament and opportunities -- Chapter 6: Consumption: two pairs...

This book explores the vital role of merchants within early modern China. Unlike European merchants, their Sino-colleagues have long been regarded as certain social pariahs after pre-Qin period, despite the fortune they made. The key mission of this monograph is to investigate whether the...

This book illustrates the complexity and variety of victualling systems in early modern Italy. For a long time, the historiography of urban provisioning systems in late medieval and early modern times featured a conceptual opposition between victualling administration and the market. In this...

1 Handelsstraßen und Flüsse. Die Verkehrsverhältnisse am Niederrhein zur Hansezeit -- 1.1 Der Niederrhein als Verkehrslandschaft -- 1.2 Der Rhein als Verkehrs- und Handelsweg -- Natürliche Bedingungen -- Rheinbaumaßnahmen -- 1.3 Nebenflüsse und Kanäle als Verkehrswege -- Nebenflüsse --...

Ch 1. The way we live now - and the way we once lived -- Ch. 2. Debates and theories -- Ch. 3. Song China and the Ming restoration - a case study -- Ch. 4. The military revolution and the world it made -- Ch. 5. The European divergence -- Ch. 6. The scientific revolution and the shaping of the...

El descubrimiento del Nuevo Mundo convirtió a España en potencia mundial e inauguró un nuevo capítulo en el comercio internacional, si bien en el siglo XVII los españoles tuvieron que hacer frente a una grave crisis. Con el mercantilismo, el mercader se convirtió en la figura central de la...

In the last decades, women’s role in the workforce has dramatically changed, though gender inequality persists and for women, gender identity still prevails over work identity. It is important not to forget or diminish the historical role of women in the labour market though and this book...

Frank Trentmann, Historiker am Londoner Birkbeck College, erzählt in Herrschaft der Dinge erstmals umfassend die faszinierende Geschichte des Konsums. Von der italienischen Renaissance bis hin zur globalisierten Wirtschaft der Gegenwart entwirft er eine weltumspannende Alltags- und...

"The Companion to the Hanseatic League discusses the importance of the Hanseatic League for the social and economic history of pre-modern northern Europe. Established already as early as the twelfth century, the towns that formed the Hanseatic League created an important network of commerce...

The work is a quantitative analysis on the relationship between technology and economic development from data on patents from over twenty countries from the beginning of the 19th century till the end of the twentieth century. The cross section regressions between patents and per capita income...

This paper discusses Gelderblom’s hypothesis that urban competition (including a large number of competing cities, footloose foreign traders and municipal autonomy) was central to the rise of inclusive trade institutions in Europe. The first part discusses the precise behaviour of traders,...

Purpose – This paper aims to examine the role of the Japanese state in the development of budgets within “special companies” in the transportation sector between 1928 and 1945. Design/methodology/approach – Using evidence contained in the archives of “closedown institutions” this...

Purpose – This paper aims to focus on the deep-seated ideological, economic, and social roots of the notion and practice of profit sharing in French enterprise, from a historical perspective. Although this practice is legally mandated in France today, this paper seeks to identify the...