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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “chris briggs”
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  • Population, Welfare and Economic Change in Britain, 1290-1834

    by Chris Briggs, Rebecca Oakes, Julie Marfany, Samantha Williams, Jeremy Boulton, Nigel Goose, Margaret Yates, Tracy Dennison, Sheilagh Ogilvie, Richard Hoyle0, P. M. Kitson3, S. J. Thompson4, E.A. Wrigley5, Bruce M.S. Campbell6, Lorraine Barry7 ...
    Population, Welfare and Economic Change presents the latest research on the causes and consequences of British population change from the medieval period to the eve of the Industrial Revolution, in both town and countryside. Its overarching concern is with the economic and demographic decision-making of individuals and groups and the extent to which these were constrained by institutions and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Land and Credit

    Mortgages in the Medieval and Early Modern European Countryside

    Edited by Chris Briggs, Jaco Zuijderduijn ...
    Series series Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance
    This volume investigates the use of mortgages in the European countryside between the thirteenth and eighteenth centuries. A mortgage allowed a loan to be secured with land or other property, and the practice has been linked to the transformation of the agrarian economy that paved the way for modern economic growth.Historians have viewed the mortgage both positively and negatively: on the one hand ... Read more

    $170.99 USD

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  • Crises in Economic and Social History

    A Comparative Perspective

    by A.T. Brown, John Martin, John S. Lee, John Singleton, Josette Duncan, Mark Casson, Matthew Hollow, Pamela Nightingale, Paul Warde, Pavla Jirkova0, Peter H. Bent1, Andy Burn3, Philip Slavin4, Ranald C Michie5, Rob Doherty6, Samuel K. Cohn8, Alan Knight9, Anne L. Murphy0, Catherine Casson1, Cinzia Lorandini2 ...
    This collection of essays brings together historians examining social and economic crises from the thirteenth century to the twenty-first. Crisis is an almost ubiquitous concept for historians, applicable across (amongst others) the histories of agriculture, disease, finance and trade. Yet there has been little attempt to compare its use as an explanatory tool between these discrete fields of ... Read more

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  • Nineteenth-Century Britain

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Colin Matthew, Christopher Harvie ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, Christopher Harvie and Colin Matthew's Very Short Introduction to Nineteenth-Century Britain is a sharp but subtle account of remarkable economic and social change and an even more remarkable political stability. Britain in 1789 was overwhelmingly rural, agrarian, multilingual, and almost half Celtic. By 1914, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Ascent of Money

    A Financial History of the World: 10th Anniversary Edition

    by Niall Ferguson ...
    **The 10th anniversary edition, with new chapters on the crash, Chimerica, and cryptocurrency"[An] excellent, just in time guide to the history of finance and financial crisis." —The Washington Post"Fascinating." —Fareed Zakaria, Newsweek**In this updated edition, Niall Ferguson brings his classic financial history of the world up to the present day, tackling the populist backlash that followed ... Read more

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  • Scotland

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Rab Houston ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Since Devolution in 1999 Scotland has become a focus of intense interest both within Britain and throughout the wider world. In this Very Short Introduction, Rab Houston explores how an independent Scottish nation emerged in the Middle Ages, how it was irrevocably altered by Reformation, links with England and economic change, and how Scotland influenced the development of the modern world. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Georgians

    The Deeds and Misdeeds of 18th-Century Britain

    by Penelope J. Corfield ...
    A comprehensive history of the Georgians, comparing past views of these exciting, turbulent, and controversial times with our attitudes todayThe Georgian era is often seen as a time of innovations. It saw the end of monarchical absolutism, global exploration and settlements overseas, the world’s first industrial revolution, deep transformations in religious and cultural life, and Britain’s role in ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Modern Scottish History

    Edited by T. M. Devine, Jenny Wormald ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Over the last three decades major advances in research and scholarship have transformed understanding of the Scottish past. In this landmark study some of the most eminent writers on the subject, together with emerging new talents, have combined to produce a large-scale volume which reconsiders in fresh and illuminating ways the classic themes of the nation's history since the sixteenth century as ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Capitalism

    Money, Morals and Markets

    by John Plender ...
    Capitalism has lifted millions out of poverty. Under its guiding hand, living standards throughout the Western world have been transformed. Further afield, the trail blazed by Japan is being followed by other emerging market countries across the globe, creating prosperity on a breathtaking scale. And yet, capitalism is unloved. From its discontents to its outright enemies, voices compete to point ... Read more

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  • Troubled Geographies

    A Spatial History of Religion and Society in Ireland

    by Ian N. Gregory, Niall A. Cunningham, C. D. Lloyd, Ian G. Shuttleworth, Paul S. Ell ...
    Series series The Spatial Humanities
    "Tap[s] the power of new geospatial technologies . . . explore[s] the intersection of geography, religion, politics, and identity in Irish history."— International Social Science ReviewIreland's landscape is marked by fault lines of religious, ethnic, and political identity that have shaped its troubled history. Troubled Geographies maps this history by detailing the patterns of change in Ireland ... Read more

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  • Money Changes Everything

    How Finance Made Civilization Possible

    by William N. Goetzmann, William N. Goetzmann ...
    "[A] magnificent history of money and finance."—New York Times Book Review"Convincingly makes the case that finance is a change-maker of change-makers."—Financial TimesIn the aftermath of recent financial crises, it's easy to see finance as a wrecking ball: something that destroys fortunes and jobs, and undermines governments and banks. In Money Changes Everything, leading financial historian ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge History of Ireland: Volume 3, 1730–1880

    by Thomas Bartlett ...
    Series series The Cambridge History of Ireland
    The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was an era of continuity as well as change. Though properly portrayed as the era of 'Protestant Ascendancy' it embraces two phases - the eighteenth century when that ascendancy was at its peak; and the nineteenth century when the Protestant elite sustained a determined rear-guard defence in the face of the emergence of modern Catholic nationalism. Employing ... Read more

    $45.09 USD