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  • Medieval Statistics

    Accounting, Record-Keeping and Financial Management, 1066-1525

    Edited by Mark Casson, John S. Lee ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book is the first to systematically examine the sources of medieval statistics. It will be useful as a handbook for researchers in financial and cultural history, as a history of financial record-keeping, and as a review of recent research into medieval finance and accounting based on statistical sources.Medieval statistics provide a unique window on the past. Medieval documents produced by ... Read more

    $224.09 USD

  • The Cultivated Forest

    People and Woodlands in Asian History

    Edited by Ian M. Miller, Bradley Camp Davis, Brian Lander, John S. Lee ...
    Synthesizes multiple perspectives on Asian forests from early history to the near presentForests have histories that need to be told. This examination of wood and woodlands in East and Southeast Asia brings together case studies from China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and Sumatra to explore continuities in the history of forest management across these regions as well as the distinctive qualities of ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Compassionate Capitalism

    Business and Community in Medieval England

    by Catherine Casson, Mark Casson, John S. Lee, Katie Phillips ...
    It may seem like a recent trend, but businesses have been practising compassionate capitalism for nearly a thousand years.Based on the newly discovered historical documents on Cambridge’s sophisticated urban property market during the Commercial Revolution in the thirteenth century, this book explores how successful entrepreneurs employed the wealth they had accumulated to the benefit of the ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Business and Community in Medieval England

    The Cambridge Hundred Rolls Source Volume

    by Catherine Casson, Mark Casson, John S. Lee, Katie Phillips ...
    One of the most important manuscripts surviving from thirteenth-century England, the corpus of documents known as the Hundred Rolls for Cambridge have been incomplete until the recent discovery of an additional roll.This invaluable volume replaces the previous inaccurate transcription by the record commission of 1818 and provides new translations and additional appendices.Shedding new light on ... Read more

    $47.69 USD

  • Foundations of Korean Martial Arts

    Masters, Manuals & Combative Techniques

    by Stanley Henning, Manuel E. Adrogué, John Della Pia, Patrick Massey, Eugene Thorner, William Preston, John S. Lee, Sean Bradley, Marc Tedeschi ...
    Most of what are referred to as Korean martial art styles are actually derived from Japanese/Okinawan karate systems or find their roots in Chinese boxing. The Korean peninsula has existed as a fragile territory between China and Japan and thus shared many cultural elements from their neighbors. To what degree has the Japanese and Chinese arts influenced those practiced in Korea over the centuries ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • 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

    $17.99 USD

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  • China In World History

    by Paul S. Ropp ...
    Here is a fascinating compact history of Chinese political, economic, and cultural life, ranging from the origins of civilization in China to the beginning of the 21st century. Historian Paul Ropp combines vivid story-telling with astute analysis to shed light on some of the larger questions of Chinese history. What is distinctive about China in comparison with other civilizations? What have been ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • 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

    Was $14.99 USD Now $9.99 USD

  • The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia

    by James C. Scott ...
    For two thousand years the disparate groups that now reside in Zomia (a mountainous region the size of Europe that consists of portions of seven Asian countries) have fled the projects of the organized state societies that surround them—slavery, conscription, taxes, corvée labor, epidemics, and warfare. This book, essentially an “anarchist history,” is the first-ever examination of the huge ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Global Economic History

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Robert C. Allen ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Why are some countries rich and others poor? In 1500, the income differences were small, but they have grown dramatically since Columbus reached America. Since then, the interplay between geography, globalization, technological change, and economic policy has determined the wealth and poverty of nations. The industrial revolution was Britain's path breaking response to the challenge of ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • China: Its History and Culture

    by W. Scott Morton, Charlton M. Lewis ...
    “A wonderful job! So lucid, beautfully written, with greatrange and insight. This will set a new standard for shortgeneral histories of China.”—Michael Gasster,professor emeritus of history at Rutgers UniversityNewly updated and revised, China: Its History and Culture,Fourth Edition, incorporates the crucial social and economicchanges that have taken place in China over the last decade.Through ... Read more

    $17.29 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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