Perspectives in Economic and Social History

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The series deals with aspects of social and economic history worldwide 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
We invite submissions from established scholars and first-time authors alike. Prospective authors should send a detailed proposal with a rationale, chapter outlines and at least two sample chapters alongside a brief author's biography and an anticipated submission date.

Send your enquiries and proposals to:

Andrew August: axa24@psu.edu
or
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

Andrew August teaches modern European and British history as Professor of History in the Abington College of The Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of two books on working-class life in Britain in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including most recently The British Working Class, 1832–1940 (Pearson/Longman, 2007). He is also the author of scholarly articles on subjects including late-Victorian working-class politics and gender and culture in 1960s Britain.

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 Clothing Trade in Provincial England, 1800–1850
• The Decline of Jute : Managing Industrial Change
• The Determinants of Entrepreneurship : Leadership, Culture, Institutions
• Energy, Trade and Finance in Asia : A Political and Economic Analysis
• English Catholics and the Education of the Poor, 1847–1902
• Female Entrepreneurs in Nineteenth-Century Russia
• Financing India's Imperial Railways, 1875–1914
• Global Trade and Commercial Networks : Eighteenth-Century Diamond Merchants
• London Clerical Workers, 1880–1914 : Development of the Labour Market
• Migrants and Urban Change : Newcomers to Antwerp, 1760–1860
• Mining and the State in Brazilian Development
• Perspectives in Economic and Social History 1–10
• Rural Unwed Mothers : An American Experience, 1870–1950
• Sex in Japan's Globalization, 1870–1930 : Prostitutes, Emigration and Nation-Building
• Violence and Racism in Football : Politics and Cultural Conflict in British Society, 1968–1998
• The World of Carolus Clusius : Natural History in the Making, 1550–1610

Forthcoming titles

• Consuls and the Institutions of Global Capitalism, 1783–1914

  Ferry de Goey

  (2014)
• Crime and Community in Reformation Scotland: Negotiating Power in a Burgh Society

  Robert Falconer

  (June 2013)
• The Economies of Latin America: New Cliometric Data

  Editors: César Yáñez and Albert Carreras

  (May 2012)
• Female Economic Strategies in the Modern World

  Editor: Beatrice Moring

  (August 2012)
• Markets and Growth in Early Modern Europe

  Victoria N Bateman

  (July 2012)
• Meat, Commerce and the City: The London Food Market, 1800–1855

  Robyn S Metcalfe

  (April 2012)
• Mercantilism and Economic Underdevelopment in Scotland, 1600–1783

  Philipp Robinson Rössner

  (April 2013)
• Merchant Colonies in the Early Modern Period

  Editors: Victor N Zakharov, Gelina Harlaftis and Olga Katisiardi-Hering

  (July 2012)
• Narratives of Drunkenness: Belgium, 1830–1914

  An Vleugels

  (February 2013)
• Policing Prostitution, 1856–1886: Deviance, Surveillance and Morality

  Catherine Lee

  (December 2012)
• Respectability and the London Poor, 1780–1870: The Value of Virtue

  Lynn MacKay

  (April 2013)
• Welfare and Old Age in Europe and North America: The Development of Social Insurance

  Editor: Bernard Harris

  (May 2012)

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