This pioneering work comprehensively examines the history of female entrepreneurship in the Russian Empire during nineteenth-century industrial development.
This pioneering work comprehensively examines the history of female entrepreneurship in the Russian Empire during nineteenth-century industrial develo...
This collective volume explores the ways merchants managed to connect different spaces all over the globe in the early modern period by organizing the movement of goods, capital, information and cultural objects between different commercial maritime systems in the Mediterranean and Atlantic basin.
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Merchants and Trade Networks in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, 1550-1800" consists of four thematic blocs: theoretical considerations, the social composition of networks, connected spaces, networks between formal and informal exchange, as well as possible failures of ties. This...
This collective volume explores the ways merchants managed to connect different spaces all over the globe in the early modern period by organizing ...
It has appeared to many commentators that the most fundamental change in what it is meant to be working-class in twentieth-century Britain came not as a result of war or of want, but of prosperity. Social investigators documented how the relative affluence of the 1950s and 1960s improved the material conditions of life for working-class Britons whilst eroding their commitment to the shared life of traditional communities.
Utilising an oral history case study of sociability and identity in the Yorkshire town of Beverley between the end of the Second World War and the election...
It has appeared to many commentators that the most fundamental change in what it is meant to be working-class in twentieth-century Britain came not...
This book is an introduction to the history of alcoholic drink in England from the end of the Middle Ages to the present day. Treating the subject thematically, it covers who drank, what they drank, how much, who produced and sold drink, the places where it was enjoyed and the meanings which drinking had for people. It also looks at the varied opposition to drinking and the ways in which it has been regulated and policed.
As a social and cultural history, it examines the place of drink in society and how social developments have affected its history and what it meant to...
This book is an introduction to the history of alcoholic drink in England from the end of the Middle Ages to the present day. Treating the subject ...
The Occupation era (1945-1952) witnessed major change in Japan and the beginnings of its growth from of the ashes of defeat towards its status as a developmental model for much of the world. The period arguably saw the sowing of the seeds of the post-war flowering of what some term the 'post-war Japanese economic miracle'. However, some scholars dispute this position and argue that the Occupation's policies and impacts actually hindered Japan's recovery. This volume addresses this question and others surrounding the business and economic history of this crucial period.
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The Occupation era (1945-1952) witnessed major change in Japan and the beginnings of its growth from of the ashes of defeat towards its status as a...
