Perspectives in Economic and Social History

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The series includes monographs dealing with aspects of social and economic history in Britain, Europe or America from the early modern period into the twentieth century. It incorporates titles organized around the following principal thematic areas: landholding patterns; poverty and welfare; demography and family history; consumption; medicine; industrialization, including occupational structures; urbanization and the urban environment; trade; and micro-histories. Books in the series offer reappraisals of the interaction of economy and society at the level of nation state, region, community and family.

Send us a Proposal
The editors invite submissions 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:
Robert E Wright: Robert.Wright@augie.edu

For detailed information on submitting a proposal, including an example of a successful submission, please click here.

Readership

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

Editorial board

Robert E Wright holds the Rudy and Marilyn Nef Family Chair of Political Economy at Augustana College. 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

Published titles

• Barriers to Competition : The Evolution of the Debate
• The Determinants of Entrepreneurship : Leadership, Culture, Institutions
• English Catholics and the Education of the Poor, 1847–1902
• Female Entrepreneurs in Nineteenth-Century Russia
• Migrants and Urban Change : Newcomers to Antwerp, 1760–1860
• Rural Unwed Mothers : An American Experience, 1870–1950
• The World of Carolus Clusius : Natural History in the Making, 1550–1610

Forthcoming titles

• The Clothing Trade in Provincial England, 1800–1850

  Alison Toplis

  (June 2011)
• The Decline of Jute: Managing Industrial Change

  Jim Tomlinson, Carlo Morelli and Valerie Wright

  (May 2011)
• Financing India's Imperial Railways, 1875–1914

  Stuart Sweeney

  (May 2011)
• Global Trade and Commercial Networks: Eighteenth-Century Diamond Merchants

  Tijl Vanneste

  (June 2011)
• London Clerical Workers, 1880–1914: Development of the Labour Market

  Michael Heller

  (November 2010)
• Mining and the State in Brazilian Development

  Gail D Triner

  (June 2011)

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