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Studies in Economic History

Pierre Vernus

Manuela Martini

Tomoko Hashino

A Global History of Silk

Trade and Production from the 16th to the Mid-20th Century

&lt;p&gt;Introduction: Silks, A Global Perspective.- Part I: Exchanges, Markets And Trade.- 1. The Golden Age Of Valencian Silk? Rise, Crisis And Productive Reconversion Of The Valencian Silk Industry (18th-19th Centuries).- 2. Auctions And The Distribution Of Silks In The United Provinces In The 18th Century.- 3. The Impact Of Sino-European Trade On Chinese Silk Production From The Mid 17th To The Early 20th Century.- 4. From Southeast Asia To Japan. Trade, Circulation, And Uses Of Silk In 17th Century East Asia.- Part II Labour Organization, Economic Hierarchies, And Gender.- 5. A Delicate Equilibrium: State Projects, Guild Dynamics, And Personal Interests In Silk Weaving In Ancient Regime. Turin, 18th Century.- 6. The Japanese Silk Reeling Industry And Women’s Labor: The Case Of The Tomioka Silk Mill.- 7. Around The Weft And The Warp: The Transformation Of Auxiliary Trades In Lyon Silk Manufacturing In The 18th And 19th Centuries.- Part III &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Institutions, Technology, And Transfer Of Knowledge.- 8. Organization For Quality Control: Branding In The Japanese Silk Reeling Industry.- 9. Facing Rising Uncertainty On The Silk Market From The Mid 19th Century To 1914.- 10. Rewarded Inventions And Repositories&amp;nbsp; In 19th-Century Lyon Silk Industry:&amp;nbsp; A Pattern Of Collective Management Of The ‘Public Domain’.- 11. From Lyon To Kyoto: Technology Transfer, Inflow Of Knowledge, And Modernization Of Traditional Silk-Weaving District In&amp;nbsp; Japan, 1887-1927.- Index.&lt;/p&gt;


From the seventeenth century to the First World War, both free and unfree labor were essential for building an empire. This ambitious study examines the relationship between capitalism and coercion across the British, French and Russian empires throughout centuries of economic transformation. Overturning conventional explanations of serfdom, slavery, indentured migration and wage labor, Alessandro Stanziani demonstrates the dominance of gentlemanly capitalism across Europe and Eurasia until the end of the nineteenth century. He links the Industrial Revolution, the Great Divergence and the Great Transformation into a single narrative in which the coercion and emancipation of labor are crucial steps. Stanziani argues that, if the modern state is now beset with labor inequalities and tensions surrounding mobility, it is not because Western values have been hijacked but because they were built on empire, labor and coercion.

Coercion and the Making of the Modern World

Empires of Labor

In The Permanent Problem, Brink Lindsey reshapes our understanding of the vital but complex relationship between material prosperity and human flourishing. The advanced capitalist democracies of the 21st century are the richest, freest, healthiest, best educated, and best governed societies in history. Why then does it seem like everything is falling apart? Economic stagnation is spreading, class divisions are deepening, birth rates are collapsing, mental health problems are on the rise, faith in democracy is in decline, and pessimism about the future abounds. In The Permanent Problem, Brink Lindsey argues that these gathering difficulties reflect the stresses and strains of a great and uncompleted historical transition-from mass material prosperity to mass human flourishing. Capitalism's immense productive powers have raised our expectations of what life can be, but for most of us reality is coming up short. What's more, the arrival of mass prosperity has pushed both economic and cultural change in directions that make the transition to mass flourishing much harder to achieve. According to Lindsey, 21st century capitalism is in the grip of three interrelated crises: a crisis of inclusion, as vital social ties and personal connections are breaking down; a crisis of dynamism, as capitalism's engines of innovation and wealth creation have begun to sputter and seize; and a crisis of politics, as the mechanisms for collective decision-making needed to address capitalism's growing problems have been degraded by the very same dynamics that underlie those problems. A much brighter future is possible, and Lindsey charts an intriguing path to get there. There is no need to concoct a radical new social system. Instead, capitalism needs to be refocused on its core mission of extending the technological frontier, and rebalanced through the revitalization of face-to-face communities. Weaving together insights from history, economics, sociology, and philosophy, The Permanent Problem offers a synoptic overview of our fateful present moment and a provocative glimpse at what may lie ahead.

The Uncertain Transition from Mass Plenty to Mass Flourishing

The Permanent Problem

The first book to combine the approaches of business and global history to analyse the development of the fashion industry from the mid-19th century onwards, to offer a new perspective on the history of the global fashion business.

Global Fashion Business since 1850

Capitalism’s Favorite Child

"Take a personal Eras tour with Swiftynomics and musically meander across the history of women in the economy, society, and family. Being a Swiftie has never been more meaningful."--Claudia Goldin, Harvard University, Nobel Prize-winning author of Career and Family: Women's Century-Long Journey toward Equity

How Women Mastermind and Redefine Our Economy

Swiftynomics

A comprehensive study of the revitalization and relaunch of luxury brands, using the Swiss watch industry as a case study and covering brands such as Patek Philippe, Hublot and Breguet.

Case Studies from the Swiss Watch Industry

Luxury Brand Management and Heritage Revival

German Technology and Global Mass Production, 1870–1914

Making Food Empires

In the twelfth-century, Pisa was a powerhouse of global trade, a city that stood at the centre of Medieval Europe. But Pisa had a problem. It was running out of coins. In the face of a looming financial crisis, the city's rulers and its moneylenders forged a deal that laid the foundations of the modern state and of present-day banking. In Money and Promises, the distinguished banker and scholar Paolo Zannoni examines the extraordinary relationship between states and banks. He draws upon seven case studies: the republic of twelfth-century Pisa, seventeenth-century Venice, the early years of the Bank of England, Imperial Spain, the Kingdom of Naples, the nascent USA during the American Revolution, and Bolshevik Russia in 1917-21. Spanning a multitude of countries, political systems and historical eras, Zannoni shows that at the heart of our institutions lies an intricate exchange of debt and promises that has shaped the modern world. Featuring pioneering research and original insights, this authoritative yet accessible book explores the vital relationship upon which our financial and political systems still depend.

Seven Deals that Changed the World

Money and Promises

Anthem Other Canon Economics

Economic Ideas that Built Europe

Albert Aftalion's Periodic Crises of Overproduction is an enlightening complement to Keynes' General Theory, as it develops key macroeconomic concepts such as the accelerator principle from a detailed investigation of the interdependencies and temporal asymmetries of an industrial economy. It is an essential foundation for the economics of the medium term.

Periodic Crises of Overproduction (1913)

Drawing upon the span of American history from the seventeenth century to the present, Bret Carroll explores masculinity's importance as a leitmotif to understand a broad range of human relations. He argues that throughout our history masculinity has been a powerful force across geographical, racial, ethnic, and class lines.

A Concise History of Masculinity in U.S. History and Culture

American Manhood

Transparency has become a ubiquitous presence in seemingly every sphere of social, economic, and political life. Yet, for all the claims that transparency works, little attention has been paid to how it works - even when it fails to achieve its goals. Instead of assuming that transparency is itself transparent, this book questions the technological practices, material qualities, and institutional standards producing transparency in extractive, commodity trading, and agricultural sites. Furthermore, it asks: how is transparency certified and standardized? How is it regimented by 'ethical' and 'responsible' businesses, or valued by traders and investors, from auction rooms to sustainability reports? The contributions bring nuanced answers to these questions, approaching transparency through four key organizing concepts, namely disclosure, immediacy, trust, and truth. These are concepts that anchor the making of transparency across the lifespan of global commodities. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Ethnographies of a Global Value

How Transparency Works

The Eurasian Exchange That Transformed the Medieval World

Venice and the Mongols

A Global History of Silk

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