Social & Economic History

Major works

• The American Colonies and the British Empire, 1607–1783
• The American Postal Network, 1792–1914
• Bawdy Songbooks of the Romantic Period
• Blasphemy in Britain and America, 1800–1930
• Britain in India, 1765–1905
• British Family Life, 1780–1914
• British Immigration to the United States, 1776–1914
• British Literature of World War I
• British Piracy in the Golden Age: History and Interpretation, 1660–1730
• British Trade Unions, 1707–1918
• The British Transatlantic Slave Trade
• British and American Letter Manuals, 1680–1810
• Censorship and the Press, 1580–1720
• Chartist Literary Landmarks
• Chartist Movement in Britain, 1838–1850
• Clothing, Society and Culture in Nineteenth-Century England
• Coal in Victorian Britain
• The Collected Letters of Harriet Martineau
• Communications in Africa, 1880–1939
• Conduct Literature for Women, Part V, 1830–1900
• The Corn Laws
• Democratic Socialism in Britain: Classic Texts in Economic and Political Thought, 1825–1952
• Depression and Melancholy, 1660–1800
• The Development of the National Economy: The United States from the Civil War through the 1890s
• Economic Development of Africa, 1880–1939
• Eighteenth-Century British Erotica, Part II
• Eighteenth-Century British Erotica
• Eighteenth-Century Coffee-House Culture
• The Emergence of a National Economy: The United States from Independence to the Civil War
• English Catholicism, 1680–1830
• The English Rural Poor, 1850–1914
• English Witchcraft, 1560–1736
• Famine and Disease in Ireland
• The Foundations of the American Economy: The American Colonies from Inception to Independence
• Ghosts: A Social History
• Great Bubbles: Reactions to the South Sea Bubble, the Mississippi Scheme and the Tulip Mania Affair
• Harriet Martineau's Writing on the British Empire
• Harriet Martineau’s Writing on British History and Military Reform
• The History of Old Age in England, 1600–1800
• The History of Suffrage, 1760–1867
• The Journals and Diaries of E M Forster
• Lives of Victorian Political Figures, Part III: Queen Victoria, Florence Nightingale, Annie Besant and Millicent Garrett Fawcett by their Contemporaries
• London Corresponding Society, 1792–1799
• The Manuscripts of Adam Ferguson
• Mercantilist Theory and Practice: The History of British Mercantilism
• The Metropolitan Poor: Semifactual Accounts, 1795–1910
• Narratives of the Poor in Eighteenth-Century Britain
• Political Broadside Ballads of Seventeenth-Century England: A Critical Bibliography
• The Political Writings of the 1790s
• The Political and Economic Writings of Daniel Defoe
• The Political and Philosophical Writings of William Godwin
• The Popular Radical Press in Britain, 1817–1821: A Reprint of Early Nineteenth-Century Radical Periodicals
• Public Drinking in the Early Modern World: Voices from the Tavern, 1500–1800
• Public Execution in England, 1573–1868
• The Reception of Locke's Politics: From the 1690s to the 1830s
• The Religious and Didactic Writings of Daniel Defoe
• Selected Political Writings of John Thelwall
• Selected Works of Robert Owen
• Slavery in North America: From the Colonial Period to Emancipation
• The Social Problem Novels of Frances Trollope
• Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England
• The British Cotton Trade, 1660–1815
• The History of Suicide in England, 1650–1850
• Thomas Paine and America, 1776–1809
• The Travel Writings of John Moore
• Trials for Treason and Sedition, 1792–1794
• The Unpublished Letters of Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
• The Unpublished Letters of Thomas Moore
• Victorian Science and Literature
• Victorian Social Activists’ Novels
• Whore Biographies, 1700–1825
• William Cobbett: Selected Writings
• Women Writing Home, 1700–1920: Female Correspondence across the British Empire
• Women's Political Writings, 1610–1725
• Women's Travel Writings in Revolutionary France
• The Works of Thomas Robert Malthus

Monographs

• Argentina's Parallel Currency: The Economy of the Poor
• Australian Between Empires: The Life of Percy Spender
• Baring Brothers and the Birth of Modern Finance
• Barriers to Competition: The Evolution of the Debate
• Benjamin Franklin and the Invention of Microfinance
• The British Arboretum: Trees, Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century
• British Engineers and Africa, 1875–1914
• British Visions of America, 1775–1820: Republican Realities
• Camille Gutt and Postwar International Finance
• The Clothing Trade in Provincial England, 1800–1850
• Communicating Physics: The Production, Circulation and Appropriation of Ganot's Textbooks in France and England, 1851–1887
• Conservatism and the Quarterly Review: A Critical Analysis
• Contributors to the Quarterly Review: A History, 1809–25
• Convergence and Divergence of National Financial Systems: Evidence from the Gold Standards, 1871–1971
• The Cosmopolitan Ideal in the Age of Revolution and Reaction, 1776–1832
• Courtly Indian Women in Late Imperial India
• Credibility in Elizabethan and Early Stuart Military News
• Daniel O'Connell and the Anti-Slavery Movement: 'The Saddest People the Sun Sees'
• The Decline of Jute: Managing Industrial Change
• The Determinants of Entrepreneurship: Leadership, Culture, Institutions
• The Development of International Insurance
• The Development of the Art Market in England: Money as Muse, 1730–1900
• Dying to be English: Suicide Narratives and British Identity, 1721–1814
• Ebenezer Hazard, Jeremy Belknap and the American Revolution
• Electing Cromwell: The Making of a Politician
• Empire of Political Thought: Indigenous Australians and the Language of Colonial Government
• Empires in Perspective 1–10
• English Catholics and the Education of the Poor, 1847–1902
• The Enlightenment World 1–10
• Federal Banking in Brazil: Policies and Competitive Advantages
• Female Entrepreneurs in Nineteenth-Century Russia
• Financial History 1–10
• Financing India's Imperial Railways, 1875–1914
• Gambling on the American Dream: Atlantic City and the Casino Era
• Global Trade and Commercial Networks: Eighteenth-Century Diamond Merchants
• Hume and the Enlightenment
• The Jacobite Campaigns: The British State at War
• John Thelwall: Radical Romantic and Acquitted Felon
• The Language of Whiggism: Liberty and Patriotism, 1802–1830
• Law and Imperialism: Criminality and Constitution in Colonial India and Victorian England
• London Clerical Workers, 1880–1914: Development of the Labour Market
• Meat, Medicine and Human Health in the Twentieth Century
• Merchants and the Military in Eighteenth-Century Britain: British Army Contracts and Domestic Supply, 1739–1763
• Middle Class Writing in Late Medieval London
• Migrants and Urban Change: Newcomers to Antwerp, 1760–1860
• Militant Protestantism and British Identity, 1603–1642
• Military Economics, Culture and Logistics in the Burma Campaign, 1942–1945
• Mining and the State in Brazilian Development
• Natural History Societies and Civic Culture in Victorian Scotland
• A Political Biography of Jonathan Swift
• A Political Biography of Joseph Addison
• A Political Biography of Samuel Johnson
• A Political Biography of Thomas Paine
• A Political Biography of William King
• The Political Economy of Sentiment: Paper Credit and the Scottish Enlightenment in Early Republic Boston, 1780–1820
• The Politics of Disclosure, 1674–1725: Secret History Narratives
• The Prostitute's Body: Rewriting Prostitution in Victorian Britain
• Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture: Sex, Commerce and Morality
• Royal Patronage, Power and Aesthetics in Princely India
• Rural Unwed Mothers: An American Experience, 1870–1950
• Slave Agriculture and Financial Markets in Antebellum America: The Bank of the United States in Mississippi, 1831–1852
• Slaveholders in Jamaica: Colonial Society and Culture during the Era of Abolition
• The Spirit of the Union: Popular Politics in Scotland
• Stays and Body Image in London: The Staymaking Trade, 1680–1810
• The Sublime Invention: Ballooning in Europe, 1783–1820
• Towards Modern Public Finance
• Transoceanic Radical, William Duane: National Identity and Empire, 1760–1835
• Typhoid in Uppingham: Analysis of a Victorian Town and School in Crisis, 1875–7
• Until Darwin, Science, Human Variety and the Origins of Race
• Virginia and the Panic of 1819: The First Great Depression and the Commonwealth
• Winifred Holtby's Social Vision: 'Members One of Another'
• The World of Carolus Clusius: Natural History in the Making, 1550–1610