Empire of Cotton

Empire of Cotton
Author: Sven Beckert
Publisher: Knopf
Total Pages: 641
Release: 2014
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0375414142

"The epic story of the rise and fall of the empire of cotton, its centrality in the world economy, and its making and remaking of global capitalism, [in which the author explores] how, in a remarkably brief period, European entrepreneurs and powerful statesmen recast the world's most significant manufacturing industry, combining imperial expansion and slave labor with new machines and wage workers to change the world"--

Economic Arithmetic

Economic Arithmetic
Author: Stanley H. Palmer
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2017-05-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 1351781782

Economic history is the most quantitative branch of history, reflecting the interests and profiting from the techniques and concepts of economics. This essay, first published in 1977, provides an extensive contribution to quantitative historiography by delivering a critical guide to the sources of the numerical data of the period 1700 to 1850. This title will be of interest to students of history, finance and economics.

Routledge Library Editions: Industrial Revolution

Routledge Library Editions: Industrial Revolution
Author: Various Authors
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 2462
Release: 2021-03-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 1351670166

The volumes in this set, originally published between 1967 and 1997, draw together research by leading academics in the area of the industrial revolution and provides an examination of related key issues. The volumes examine urban workers and the working class in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-centuries, economic growth during the industrial revolution, and the causes of the industrial revolution, with a primary focus on England. This set will be of particular interest to students of history, business and economics.