Perspectives in Economic and Social History

Series Editors: Andreas Gestrich, Steven King and Robert E Wright

This series publishes monographs dealing with the social and/or economic history of Britain, Europe or America from the early modern period through the twentieth century. The editors will give particular priority to proposals that combine both quantitative and qualitative approaches to social, economic and cultural history. The submission of works of comparative history is actively encouraged.

Perspectives in Economic and Social History will offer a set of broadly-based monographs, organized around the following principle thematic areas: landholding patterns; poverty and welfare; demography and family history; consumption (including transport, business and household consumption etc.); medicine; industrialization, including occupational structures; urbanization and the urban environment; trade; and micro-histories. Books in the series will offer reappraisals of the interaction of economy and society at the level of nation state, region, community and family.

The editors invite submissions in these subject areas from established scholars as well as advanced PhD and post-doctoral students. Proposals should be for manuscripts at an overall length between 80,000 and 100,000 words. Prospective authors should include a detailed proposal of at least 8–10 pages (including chapter outlines), along with the text of a sample chapter or two, a brief author’s biography, and an anticipated submission date.

Send your enquiries and proposals to:
Andreas Gestrich: gestrich@ghil.ac.uk;
Steven King: sking@brookes.ac.uk
Robert E Wright: rwright@stern.nyu.edu

Readership

Economic and Social History, Urban History, Social History of Medicine, Demographic Studies

Editorial board

Andreas Gestrich is Professor of Modern History at the University of Trier and Director of the German Historical Institute, London. His research interests include the history of poverty; history of the family, childhood and youth; history of migration; and the social history of religion. He is the author of Geschichte der Familie (2003) and editor of Inklusion–Exklusion: Studien zu Fremdheit und Armut von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart (2004); Zurückbleiben: der vernachlässigte Teil der Migrationsgeschichte (2006) and with Steven King, Being Poor in Modern Europe: Historical Perspectives 1800–1940 (2006)

Steven King is Professor of History and Director of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Health, Medicine and Society at Oxford Brookes University. His research interests include the history of European industrialisation; the history of British and European poverty and welfare; the history of medicine; and local history. He is the author of Poverty and Welfare in England 1700–1850: A Regional Perspective (2000); Making Sense of the Industrial Revolution: English Economy and Society 1700–1850 (2001); Women, Welfare and Local Politics, 1880-1920 (2005), as well as volume editor of Pickering & Chatto’s Narratives of the Poor in Eighteenth-Century Britain (2006)

Robert E Wright is clinical associate professor of economics at the Stern School of Business, New York University. Wright has authored or co-authored various books, including most recently One Nation Under Debt: Hamilton, Jefferson, and the History of What We Owe (2008). He is also the editor of Pickering & Chatto’s The History of Corporate Finance (2003), The History of Corporate Governance (2004) and The US National Debt (2005). Though an historian by training, Wright has published numerous articles for economic and business journals like the American Economic Review, Barron's and FT Banker

Forthcoming titles

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