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:
Andreas Gestrich: gestrich@ghil.ac.uk;
Steven King: sking@brookes.ac.uk
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

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 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
• Female Entrepreneurs in Nineteenth-Century Russia
• Migrants and Urban Change : Newcomers to Antwerp, 1760-1860

Forthcoming titles

• The Determinants of Entrepreneurship: Leadership, Culture, Institutions

  Editors: José L García-Ruiz and Pierangelo Toninelli

  (September 2010)
• English Catholics and the Education of the Poor, 1847–1902

  Eric G Tenbus

  (May 2010)
• Financing India's Imperial Railways, 1875–1914

  Stuart Sweeney

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

  Michael Heller

  (February 2011)
• Mining and the State in Brazilian Development

  Gail D Triner

  (June 2011)
• Rural Unwed Mothers: An American Experience, 1870–1950

  Mazie Hough

  (March 2010)
• The World of Carolus Clusius: Natural History in the Making, 1550-1610

  Florike Egmond

  (July 2010)

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