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  • Apprenticeship, Work, Society in Early Modern Venice

    Edited by Anna Bellavitis, Valentina Sapienza ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Early Modern History
    Apprenticeship in early modern Europe has been the subject of important research in the last decades, mostly by economic historians; but the majority of the research has dealt with cities or countries in Northern Europe. The organization, evolution and purpose of apprenticeship in Southern Europe are much less studied, especially for the early modern period. The research in this volume is based on ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Women’s Work and Rights in Early Modern Urban Europe

    by Anna Bellavitis ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    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 proposes a critical overview of the most recent historical research on women’s roles in economic urban ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Gender, Law and Economic Well-Being in Europe from the Fifteenth to the Nineteenth Century

    North versus South?

    Edited by Anna Bellavitis, Beatrice Zucca Micheletto ...
    Series series Gender and Well-Being
    This book offers a comparative perspective on Northern and Southern European laws and customs concerning women’s property and economic rights. By focusing on both Northern and Southern European societies, these studies analyse the consequences of different juridical frameworks and norms on the development of the economic roles of men and women.This volume is divided into three parts. The first, ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • What is Work?

    Gender at the Crossroads of Home, Family, and Business from the Early Modern Era to the Present

    Edited by Raffaella Sarti, Anna Bellavitis, Manuela Martini ...
    Series Book 30 - International Studies in Social History
    Every society throughout history has defined what counts as work and what doesn’t. And more often than not, those lines of demarcation are inextricable from considerations of gender. What Is Work? offers a multi-disciplinary approach to understanding labor within the highly gendered realm of household economies. Drawing from scholarship on gender history, economic sociology, family history, civil ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

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    The Rise of States and Markets in Europe, 1300-1750

    by S.R. Epstein ...
    Series series Routledge Explorations in Economic History
    In discussions on European pre-modern economic growth, the role of individual freedom and of the state has loomed large. This book examines whether different kinds of 'freedoms' (absolutist, parliamentary and republican) caused different economic outcomes, and shows the effect of different political regimes on long term development. It thus offers ... Read more

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  • The Great Wave : Price Revolutions And The Rhythm Of History

    by David Hackett Fischer ...
    David Hackett Fischer, one of our most prominent historians, has garnered a reputation for making history come alive--even stories as familiar as Paul Revere's ride, or as complicated as the assimilation of British culture in North America. Now, in The Great Wave, Fischer has done it again, marshaling an astonishing array of historical facts in lucid and compelling prose to outline a history of ... Read more

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  • The Reckoning

    Financial Accountability and the Rise and Fall of Nations

    by Jacob Soll ...
    A “brilliant” (Los Angeles Review of Books) history of accounting, showing how financial and political accountability has shaped the rise and fall of nations and empiresWhether building a road or fighting a war, leaders from ancient Mesopotamia to the present have relied on financial accounting to track their state's assets and guide its policies. Basic accounting tools such as auditing and double ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Black Death and the Transformation of the West

    by David Herlihy ...
    In this small book David Herlihy makes subtle and subversive inquiries that challenge historical thinking about the Black Death. Looking beyond the view of the plague as unmitigated catastrophe, Herlihy finds evidence for its role in the advent of new population controls, the establishment of universities, the spread of Christianity, the dissemination of vernacular cultures, and even the rise of ... Read more

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  • The Great Wave

    Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History

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    David Hackett Fischer, one of our most prominent historians, has garnered a reputation for making history come alive--even stories as familiar as Paul Revere's ride, or as complicated as the assimilation of British culture in North America. Now, in The Great Wave, Fischer has done it again, marshaling an astonishing array of historical facts in lucid and compelling prose to outline a history of ... Read more

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  • Urban Society In Roman Italy

    Edited by Tim J. Cornell, Kathryn Lomas ...
    This collection of original essays focuses upon Roman Italy where, with over 400 cities, urbanization was at the very centre of Italian civilization. Informed by an awareness of the social and anthropological issues of recent research, these contributions explore not only questions of urban origins, interaction with the countryside and economic function, but also the social use of space within the ... Read more

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  • Before the Industrial Revolution

    European Society and Economy 1000-1700

    by Carlo M. Cipolla ...
    First published in 1993. In this classic textbook, Cipolla explores the slow but complex process of development that transformed Europe from its relatively weak position in AD 1000 into the highly dynamic and powerful society of 1700. The book is: * Interdisciplinary - blending the economist's and the historian's approach * Full of sources and commentary derived not only from social and economic ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Crime in Medieval Europe

    1200-1550

    by Trevor Dean ...
    Series series The Medieval World
    What is the difference between a stabbing in a tavern in London and one in a hostelry in the South of France? What happens when a spinster living in Paris finds knight in her bedroom wanting to marry her? Why was there a crime wave following the Black Death? From Aberdeen to Cracow and from Stockholm to Sardinia, Trevor Dean ranges widely throughout medieval Europe in this exiting and innovative ... Read more

    $73.99 USD