Product Description: What was the role of merchant guilds in the medieval and early modern economy? Does their wide prevalence and long survival mean they were efficient institutions that benefited the whole economy? Or did merchant guilds simply offer an effective way for the rich and powerful to increase their wealth, at the expense of outsiders, customers and society as a whole? These privileged associations of businessmen were key institutions in the European economy from 1000 to 1800...read more

Product Description: The third volume of this three-volume history focuses on Germany's late but explosive economic transformation after 1800, the cycles of war, defeat, and dictatorship from 1914 to 1950, and the 'German miracle' after 1950. The picture is one of rapid change, but within a framework of recognizable long-term continuities...read more

Product Description: The third volume in the series focuses on Germany's explosive economic transformation after 1800, the cycles of war, defeat, and dictatorship from 1914 to 1950, and the “German miracle” of revitalization after WWII. The picture is one of rapid change, but within a framework of recognizable long-term continuities...read more

Product Description: What role did women play in the pre-industrial European economy? Sheilagh Ogilvie tackles this question in an original way, using a rich body of new evidence. By examining women's contribution to a particular pre-industrial economy--the German state of Wurttemberg-- Ogilvie casts doubt on most of the extensive literature about pre-industrial women's work...read more

Product Description: This is one of three volumes which together provide a full social and economic history of Germany, from the Middle ages to the present. The second volume concentrates on the dislocation caused by economic downturn and the Thirty Years' War, in the first half of the 17th century, the gradual recovery up to 1800, and the long-term structural legacy of the 17th-century crisis...read more