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"Money, Finance and Empire" was first published in 1985.

"International Money" was first published in 1981.

Provides a workmanlike study of the rise and progress of industrialism. Here, the author surveys the main developments in the agricultural, industrial, mechanical transport and commercial policy of France, Germany, Russia and the United States.

Examines the Malthusian Theory of Population. This book focuses on the hitherto ignored critics of Malthus and presents a different perspective on the urgent issue of the problem of world population.

Starting with an Introduction, this book contains the following chapters: The crisis of 1815; The crisis of 1825; The crisis of 1836-1839; The crisis of 1847; The crisis of 1857; The crisis of 1866; The crisis of 1873; The crisis of 1882; The crisis of 1890; and Remedies.

Based on several years work on sources, this book describes the origin, organization and activities of the Anti-Corn League, together with its effect on the contemporary political scene. It provides an analysis of a political pressure group, making it an addition to literature for historians, economic historians, and students of political science.

Examines fifteenth-century Bristol, trade with Iceland, the Merchant Adventurers of London, the thirteenth-century cloth industry, the export of English woollen cloth, and the wine trade. Each paper is firmly rooted in original research and contemporary sources such as customs returns and company minutes.

Using data on population, wages and rents from England, France, Germany, the Low Countries, Italy, Scandinavia and Poland, the author demonstrates the striking similarity in the overall economic development for all these areas. He also analyses, the short-term fluctuations that have affected agricultural development within this economic framework.

The pit brow lasses who sorted coal and performed a variety of jobs above ground at British coal mines prompted a violent debate about women's work in the nineteenth century. This book discusses the implications of this debate, showing how it encapsulates many of the ambivalences of late Victorian attitudes towards working-class female employment.

Analyses the growth and - in late Victorian Britain - decline of the nation's economy, drawing on an immense amount of quantitative data to examine and explain its development. This book draws together a wide range of material and provides a framework for the understanding of a complex and richly-documented period.

Thomas Robert Malthus is remembered for his theories on the menace of over-population. This biography shows him in his role as a founder of classical political economy and as a controversial figure in the history of economic thought. It also gives an account of his two careers, as an economist and as a professor at the East India College.

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This book was first published in 1985.