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This book provides the first full-scale comparative historical analysis of the evolution of soybean farming in five South American countries; these nations now dominate the world market for soybeans, the most valuable agricultural product in the world. However, these countries only began producing soybeans on a large scale in the second half of the 20th century, replacing the United States as the leading exporters by the first decade of the new century. This book also examines soybean farming’s association with the introduction of modern commercial agricultural production in several of these countries, many of which had previously exported few agricultural products competitively.

At its peak, the British Empire governed a quarter of the world's land area and population. How it shaped trajectories of economic development in the former colonies remains the subject of fierce debate.

Leigh Gardner and Tirthankar Roy offer a rich and textured economic history of the British Empire focused on the colonies themselves. While the economic history of the Empire has been much debated, previous work has focused either on economic dynamics in Britain, or on specific colonies or regions. In this fresh global analysis, Gardner and Roy argue that the British Empire was characterised by more diversity than unity. How did this diversity emerge? How did it shape global inequalities and patterns of economic change in postcolonial times? And, finally, do we need to rethink our definitions of empire in light of this diversity? In addressing these questions, this book provides an incisive guide to the Empire: its origins, how it was governed, how it ended, and the complicated legacies it left.

The British Empire demystifies one of the most contested subjects of our time.

This book examines how the South Indian region of Karnataka influenced trade from the first century BCE to the fifteenth century CE. In the process, it analyzes the reasons for the emergence of a trade relationship between Karnataka's ports and trade centres with other Indian Ocean World trade centres, including in the Persian Gulf and Red Sea regions. Beginning with the study of the Indo-Roman trade, the book then examines the role of the state in enhancing the trade between Karnataka and other parts of the world. This volume considers such varied topics as the roles Jews and Arabs played in Karnataka, the trade in areca nut, and the relationship between the ports and the hinterland.

How a forgotten generation of Central European thinkers rejected capitalism's logic at the turn of the twentieth century-and offered solutions that remain urgent today

Financial panic, widening inequality, environmental crisis, authoritarian politics-a remarkable generation of Central European thinkers faced all of it, and they had answers. In the aftermath of the Panic of 1873, German-speaking intellectuals refused to accept capitalism as a natural law or economics as a value-free science. Drawing on anthropology, evolutionary biology, and sociology, they proposed sweeping alternatives: universal basic provisions, wealth and land taxes, cooperative ownership, democratic planning, and even money-less economies. Vienna was the crucible, but the influence spread across Central Europe and eventually the world.

In making the case that the insights of this forgotten tradition are needed more urgently than ever, Janek Wasserman

* recovers a lost "third way" between industrial capitalism and communism, prioritizing human dignity, social welfare, and democratic decision-making;
* traces how forced exile under fascism carried these ideas into the development economics practiced at the UN, World Bank, and IMF; and
* connects the crises of the fin de siecle to our own, offering a "usable past" for today.

The Human Economists demonstrates that there is no reason to reinvent the wheel. These thinkers already imagined-and partly designed-the world we still need.

The Dominion of Shoppers is a concise introduction to the long history of Canadian consumption. Building on the “four Ps” of consumer history ? place, product, payment, and power ? historian Steve Penfold traces the complex mix of business, economic, social, and cultural dynamics that shaped shopping and exchange from the bygone fur trade to contemporary online buying.

Stretching from the 17th to the 21st century, The Dominion of Shoppers builds its narrative around several key moments in the history of the (now bankrupt) Hudson’s Bay Company, leading the reader through the exchanges of the fur trade, retail in settler colonialism, modern consumption, post-World War Two consumer boom, consumer nationalism, state regulation, and more recent technological and retail disruptions. Through the pages of this book, readers will visit fur trade posts, public markets, small rural shops, department stores, shopping malls, power centres, discount houses, and online markets.

The Dominion of Shoppers is a valuable introduction to Canadian consumerism for historians, students, and anyone interested in Canada’s past and present.

A bold new history of global finance over seven centuries-and what its long evolution reveals about the future of the world economy

The twenty-first century has been marked by what many see as unusual instability in global finance-negative interest rates, geopolitical tensions, and unprecedented market interventions. What if these developments are not an aberration but rather a return to deeper historical patterns?

In this ambitious new history, Paul Schmelzing draws on thousands of archival sources to reconstruct the evolution of the international financial system from the Renaissance to today. He shows how long-run trends in interest rates and asset markets helped shape our modern system-and how those trends may now be reversing.

That system took form during the upheavals of the sixteenth century, when governments-starting with the Habsburg Empire-emerged as the world's most trusted borrowers and their debt became the foundation of modern markets. Over time, this arrangement culminated in America anchoring the international financial order.

Now, that long-standing order is eroding. As debt rises, financial pressures mount, and China's economic trajectory converges with the West's, the world could be entering a new era of instability-one that, in key respects, echoes the financial system that existed before 1550.

From nineteenth-century scientific efforts to measure and classify faces to the personalized technology that unlocks your smartphone, facial recognition has reinvented itself, insinuating its logic into the fabric of everyday life. Facial recognition technologies (FRTs) have become ubiquitous through integration with computer vision, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.

Yet, the significance of facial recognition is not its technical prowess, Aaron Tucker argues, but its persistent political project: the sustained desire to render all subjects legible to the state - a drive foundational to its history as a technology of power. Looking back at Francis Galton's work on vision and eugenics, Woodrow W. "Woody" Bledsoe's 1960s experiments in automated facial recognition, and the first public demonstration in 1970, Tucker traces how FRTs emerged from the convergence of photography, identity documentation, and computer vision. Accelerated by crises such as 9/11 and the COVID-19 pandemic, contemporary FRTs are shaped by eugenic logic and embedded in broader strategies for managing mass mobility. Tucker imagines alternative trajectories to a technology that feels ever more ubiquitous and unavoidable, including tactics that resist, disrupt, and redirect the future development of FRTs as tools of algorithmic oppression and control.

Timely and urgent, Flexible Faces reckons with two centuries of the amorphous and adaptable nature of automated facial recognition, a technology whose systems and software now slip across borders and are interwoven into one's everyday life, mobility, and citizenship.

Why do efforts to combat hunger succeed in some regions but fail in others? History offers many examples of agricultural societies facing severe harvest failures and subsequent food shortages, yet with strikingly different outcomes. In some regions, crop failure triggered catastrophic famine and mass mortality; elsewhere, communities managed to compensate for losses and avoided famine altogether, or endured shortages with only limited consequences.

This book compares how regions around the Baltic Sea responded to severe food supply crises during the late 1860s. The decade provides a revealing historical laboratory in which states and regions confronted similar shortages but from very different levels of economic, social, and political development. Scholarship on the best-known crisis of the period, the Great Finnish Famine of 1866-1868, has often overlooked the broader context of simultaneous harvest failures and subsistence crises in neighboring regions, as well as the connections between them.

Adopting a transnational and regionally comparative perspective, this volume examines famine as an entangled crisis across the Baltic Sea Area. Although harvest failures and food shortages affected much of the area, famine was far from universal. Through regional analyses of agricultural production, politics, demography, and market interactions within and across state boundaries-including Finland, Sweden, Estonia, northern Germany, and northwestern Russia-the book offers a new, broader and more historically integrated account of food crises in Northern Europe during a formative period.

This volume is valuable to researchers and students of European economic and social history, particularly those interested in famine, demography, regional studies, and rural history.

Through localized case studies and a transnational historiographic project of decentering Europe and the United States, this book explores various approaches to the history of technology in South, Central and North America, as well as the Caribbean.

The three sections, Beyond Agency, Beyond Chronology, and Beyond Borders, project the very wide array of human undertakings that may be illuminated through the rubric of technology. From foodways, computing, and micro-credit banking to tourism, manioc, and arsenic, the authors analyze a vast array of political and cultural meanings customarily hidden in tropes of modernity and development, capturing the role of technology in the conceptual and material construction of the Americas and the Caribbean. The book shows how historical technologies can help articulate episodes of state-making, colonialism, modernization, enslavement, development, Pan- and Inter-Americanism, extractive capitalism, and dictatorial regimes, as well as instances of community-building, democratizing initiatives, and care across the hemisphere.

This volume will be of interest to advanced undergraduates, graduates, and researchers in the history of technology, as well as those in political history, environmental history and Latin American studies.

This book is a social and economic history of Hungary in the late eighteenth century, written in the form of a microhistory. Through microanalyses of a miller’s recruitment into the army, the life of a vagrant farm labourer, the illicit sale of wine by a postmaster, a violent conflict between two squires, and two murder cases, the book addresses a range of important themes, including the relationship between peasant communities and their lords, and the presence of the army in the everyday lives of common people.

These micro-level analyses combine to create a coherent account of Hungary from the 1760s to the end of the century. They reveal significant capital accumulation in the agrarian sector, the omnipresence of both the army and wine in everyday life, and the crucial role played by the local communities of the oppressed population in sustaining the ancien regime. In this way, microhistory offers a novel framework for national history.

The Wine and the Soldiers: A Microhistory of Hungary, 1761?1799 is intended primarily for historians and postgraduate students interested in Hungarian history and, more broadly, in early modern Europe. It may also appeal to readers interested in an innovative methodological approach demonstrating how microhistory can illuminate the major historical questions of late eighteenth- century Hungary?issues more commonly explored through macro-level historical scholarship.

Connected Histories of Oil in Latin America provides a global history of oil in Latin America, from the first oil fields drilled in Peru in the 1860s to the current exploitation at the offshore and tropical forest frontier, reframed through a non-Eurocentric perspective.

Offering a new geographic viewpoint, the book builds a place for the Global South in the narratives of the global energy transitions of the Anthropocene, going beyond the Eurocentric models that tend to drive all aspects of this history back to Great Britain's first industrialization and U.S. capitalism. It demonstrates how petroleum has been a central component for the shaping of nationalist and emancipatory projects in Latin America throughout the 20th century. By incorporating insights from environmental history, labor history, and the energy humanities, the book argues that Latin American societies actively shaped global fossil-fuel modernity rather than merely adapting to it, revealing oil as a profoundly transnational phenomenon. Organized in four parts - Epochs, Places, Actors and Archives, the book moves away from nation-centered and economy-focused narratives, highlighting landscape, environment, culture, and technology as central elements of analysis.

This book is important reading for students and scholars from social sciences and energy humanities, as well as public policy makers and a wider audience interested in current environmental issues.

The arrival of Montreal-based fur trader Peter Pond in Athabasca territory in 1778 and the establishment of the first trading post within the watershed of the Mackenzie River marked the beginning of a period of intense northern exploration. Alexander Mackenzie’s voyages to the Arctic and Pacific Oceans quickly brought the Canadian northwest to European attention.

Full of colourful anecdotes, The English River Book provides a day-to-day record of trade at Fort Athabasca in April 1786 under Pond’s direction. In addition to listing those who worked and traded in the area, the journal catalogues duties, wages, stations, inventories of commonplace and mysterious goods, a Cree trading vocabulary, and many other details about the English River district of 1785 and 1786. Familiar figures appear, such as Joseph Cartier, an interpreter whose fur-trading career lasted almost sixty years, and Joseph Landry and Charles Doucette, the Acadian voyageurs who a few years later guided Mackenzie to the Arctic and Pacific Oceans.

An active working journal rather than the reminiscence of a retired trader, The English River Book recounts romantic lore of the fur trade and the adventurous lives of traders, on the spot and in the heat of events. A new preface by the author and a new foreword by Jennifer S.H. Brown bring the document into historical context and contemporary relevance.

In 1873 "Uncle Joe" Glidden, a sixty-year-old farmer in DeKalb, Illinois, became inspired to improve fencing after seeing a thorny rail at a county fair. Taking an old hand-cranked coffee mill, he modified it to coil some wire barbs and strung them on a wire in hopes of keeping his cattle from his cornfield. When the wire became tangled, he discovered what had eluded others for decades: how to make an all-wire barbed fence.

Farmers on the prairie lacked effective, inexpensive fencing, so the appeal of barbed wire was obvious, and a race began to imitate Glidden's invention and secure patents. What followed was a tug-of-war over a transformational technology that shaped America and the world. The ease of manufacturing barbed wire, the high profits it offered, and the growing market induced many to jump into the business, and many styles of barbed wire came onto the market over the next few years. Manufacturers used their patents to stop infringers and protect their own improvements.

With the informed eye of a patent attorney with an engineering background, author Geoffrey A. Mantooth makes the story of this transformational technology easy to understand. In Barbed Wire Frontiers: How a Simple Invention Made a Lot of Money, Mantooth traces the development of a staple of agricultural life, especially in the west. With lively prose and an abundance of informative illustrations, Barbed Wire Frontiers introduces readers to the little-known (and sometimes unknown) characters who helped reshape agriculture in the United States.

Profitability and Economic Rationality of Slavery in a Historical Perspective examines slavery as an economic institution across the longue duree, from the ancient Near East and classical Mediterranean to the modern Atlantic world. Moving beyond traditional moral or ideological interpretations, the volume investigates how systems of slavery were justified, organized, and sustained within different historical, social, and economic contexts. Particular attention is devoted to the historiographical legacy of the modern abolitionist debate, which introduced analytical categories such as profitability, efficiency, and rationality that continue to shape the study of slavery in both modern and ancient societies.

Bringing together specialists of modern, ancient Near Eastern, Greek, and Roman history, this book adopts a deliberately comparative and diachronic perspective. The contributions explore themes including pro?slavery thought in Enlightenment Europe, the persistence of slavery in 19th?century Cuba, the valuation of enslaved persons in Mesopotamia and Egypt, female and child labor in the ancient world, slave markets, manumission practices, and the relationship between enslaved and free labor. Collectively, the essays challenge simplistic assumptions about slavery’s inherent irrationality or inefficiency and instead highlight its adaptability as a system of labor organization, capital investment, and social control.

This volume will be of interest to scholars and students of slavery studies, ancient history, economic history, labor history, and comparative historical sociology, as well as to readers interested in the long?term historical dynamics of coercion, labor, and economic institutions.

This collective monograph presents fourteen case studies of predominantly Spanish firms and enterprises, making a significant contribution to the fields of Business History and entrepreneurship studies.

Spain’s economy has undergone successive structural phases: the expansion of the Iberian Empire following the discovery of the New World, corresponding to the pre-industrial era; a delayed and uneven industrialisation process in the late nineteenth century; accelerated industrial growth during the second half of the twentieth century, characterised by considerable state intervention; and, more recently, deindustrialisation and a shift toward a predominantly service-based economy, with tourism playing a pivotal role.

The primary audience comprises students and researchers in Business History, Economic History, Management, Economics, Finance, Accountancy, and related Social Science disciplines. In Spain, the growing demand for degree programmes in Management, Accountancy, Economics, and Finance?many of which are now delivered in English?has generated a corresponding need for specialised academic literature in English. Within this context, the volume responds to a clear educational and scholarly demand at both national and international levels.

Empire of Pelts sheds new light on the history of early North America by reconsidering the misunderstood social figure of the coureur de bois, born in Canada in the second half of the seventeenth century, who underwent many iterations across North America through the mid-nineteenth century. Historian Gilles Havard conceptualizes the traveling cultures of the fur trade that emerged from the encounter between colonial and Native American societies. Variously known as coureurs de bois, voyageurs, Indian traders, hunters, northmen, freemen, and mountain men, these men, while collecting pelts, played a crucial role in the understanding and perception of Native American cultures.

While challenging the standard portrayal of fur traders as mere precursors of colonization, Empire of Pelts reflects on how intercultural contacts shaped North American colonial societies. Moving beyond a descriptive and general history of the fur trade, it also breaks away from the economic and materialist mold in which coureurs de bois and voyageurs have been analyzed, as if they were nothing more than a proletarian labor force of paddlers. Instead, by being a social and cultural history of the fur trade, Empire of Pelts offers a meditation on social norms, first in the context of colonial societies, then in the context of Indigenous societies.

This book offers the first comparative analysis of politically motivated bank runs in Habsburg Austria, focusing on events in Vienna (1848), Prague (1903), and Ljubljana (1908/09). These episodes have received little attention outside narrow national historiographies. This project brings to light a broader pattern of financial instability driven by political populism and nationalist agitation, thereby filling a significant gap in both financial and historical literature.

From the revolutionary upheaval of Vienna in 1848 to the nationalist flashpoints of Prague and Ljubljana in the early 20th century, the book traces how banks confronted waves of public panic by publishing increasingly detailed, sometimes daily, financial reports to stabilize public confidence. Drawing on a wealth of historical newspapers, financial publications, and archival material, the book reveals how these acts of transparency often fuelled controversy rather than calming it. In the absence of strong regulation, voluntary disclosure practices created a precarious information ecosystem. The book analyses that environment, showing how media growth, ethnic conflict, and the demand for quantification intersected to shape a volatile and easily manipulated form of financial trust. The author adopts an innovative interdisciplinary approach combining economic history, media, and accounting studies, rooting the analysis in historical data and mixed methods research including both textual analysis and original quantitative research. Econometric appendices at the end of the book reconstruct time series data on withdrawals, deposits and credit that may be of particular interest to economics scholars. This book will be a valuable insight into a little-known period of financial history, and appeal to researchers from a broad range of fields.