EBookClubs

Read Books & Download eBooks Full Online

EBookClubs

Read Books & Download eBooks Full Online

Book Earl Hamilton

Download or read book Earl Hamilton written by Fouad Sabry and published by One Billion Knowledgeable. This book was released on 2024-02-07 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who is Earl Hamilton Hispanist and American historian Earl Jefferson Hamilton was also a notable figure in the field of economic history. He was one of the pioneers of economic history. How you will benefit (I) Insights about the following: Chapter 1: Earl J. Hamilton Chapter 2: Kenneth Arrow Chapter 3: Hanna Holborn Gray Chapter 4: Alice Hamilton Chapter 5: Xavier Sala-i-Martin Chapter 6: Jean Meyer Chapter 7: David Laidler Chapter 8: Harvard University Herbaria Chapter 9: Hajo Holborn Chapter 10: Rafael Lapesa Chapter 11: John Henry Coatsworth Chapter 12: Edwin Francis Gay Chapter 13: Thomas F. Glick Chapter 14: Sergio Aguayo Chapter 15: Paloma Fernández Chapter 16: Don Patinkin Chapter 17: Jacques Lafaye Chapter 18: Murdo J. MacLeod Chapter 19: International scientific committee on price history Chapter 20: Lina Gálvez Chapter 21: Jordi Nadal Who this book is for Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information about Earl Hamilton.

Book A Bibliography of Historical Economics to 1980

Download or read book A Bibliography of Historical Economics to 1980 written by Deirdre N. McCloskey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians and economists will find here what their fields have in common - the movement since the 1950s known variously as 'cliometrics', 'economic history', or 'historical economics'. A leading figure in the movement, Donald McCloskey, has compiled, with the help of George Hersh and a panel of distinguished advisors, a highly comprehensive bibliography of historical economics covering the period up until 1980. The book will be useful to all economic historians, as well as quantitative historians, applied economists, historical demographers, business historians, national income accountants, and social historians.

Book Money  Prices  and Wages in Valencia  Aragon  and Navarre  1351 1500

Download or read book Money Prices and Wages in Valencia Aragon and Navarre 1351 1500 written by Earl Jefferson Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Women  dowries and agency

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dana Wessell Lightfoot
  • Publisher : Manchester University Press
  • Release : 2016-05-16
  • ISBN : 1526112442
  • Pages : 321 pages

Download or read book Women dowries and agency written by Dana Wessell Lightfoot and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-16 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines labouring-status women in late medieval Valencia as they negotiated the fundamentally defining experience of their lives: marriage. Through the use of notarial records and civil court cases, it argues that the socio-economic and immigrant status of these women greatly enhanced their ability to exercise agency not only in choosing a spouse and gathering dotal assets, but also in controlling this property after they wed. Although the prevailing legal code in Valencia appeared to give wives little authority over these assets, court records demonstrate that they were still able to negotiate a measure of control. In these actions, labouring-status wives exercised agency by protecting their marital goods from harm, using legal statutes to their own advantage. In looking at the experiences of labouring-status women, this monograph shifts the debate regarding women’s access to and control of property in the medieval period. Exploring a group previously unexamined by scholars, it argues that our understanding of women’s marital strategies changes, challenging the central role of blood and marital kin in these negotiations.

Book The Shaping of Africa

    Book Details:
  • Author : Francesc Relaño
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2019-06-04
  • ISBN : 1351761390
  • Pages : 349 pages

Download or read book The Shaping of Africa written by Francesc Relaño and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2002. When did Africa emerge as a continent in the European mind? This book aims to trace the origins of the idea of Africa and its evolution in Renaissance thought. Particular attention is given to the relationship between the process of acquiring knowledge through travel and exploration, and its representation within a discourse which also includes previously acquired cosmographical elements. Among the themes investigated are: How did the image of Africa evolve from the conception of a symbolic space to a Euclidean representation? How did the Renaissance rediscovery of Antiquity interact with the Portuguese discoveries along the African coast? And once Africa was circumnavigated, how was the inner landmass depicted in the absence of first-hand knowledge? Also, overall, in this whole process what was the interplay of myth and reality?

Book Inquisition and Society in the Kingdom of Valencia  1478 1834

Download or read book Inquisition and Society in the Kingdom of Valencia 1478 1834 written by Stephen Haliczer and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024-07-26 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stephen Haliczer has mined rich documentary sources to produce the most comprehensive and enlightening picture yet of the Inquisition in Spain. The kingdom of Valencia occupies a uniquely important place in the history of the Spanish Inquisition because of its large Muslim and Jewish populations and because it was a Catalan kingdom, more or less "occupied" by the despised Castilians who introduced the Inquisition. Haliczer underscores the intensely regional nature of the Valencian tribunal. He shows how the prosecution of religious deviants, the recruitment and professional activity of Inquisitors and officials, and the relations between the Inquisition and the majority Old Christian population all clearly reflect the place and the society. A great series of pogroms swept over Spain during the summer of 1391. Jewish communities were attacked and the Jews either massacred or forced to convert. More than ninety percent of the victims of the Valencian Inquisition a century later were descendants of those who chose conversion, the conversos. Haliczer argues convincingly against those who see all the conversos as "secret Jews." He finds, on the contrary, that a wide range of religious beliefs and practices existed among them and that some were even able to assimilate into Old Christian society by becoming familiares of the Inquisition itself. Nevertheless, it was controversy over the sincerity of the converted which spawned the first proposals for the establishment of a Spanish national Inquisition. That very same controversy, persisting in the writings of history, may be resolved by Haliczer's stimulating discoveries. Inquisition and Society in the Kingdom of Valencia is a major contribution to the lively field of Inquisition studies, combining institutional history of the tribunal with socioreligious history of the kingdom. The many case histories included in the narrative give both Valencian society and the Inquisition very human faces. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1990.

Book Money and Its Use in Medieval Europe

Download or read book Money and Its Use in Medieval Europe written by Peter Spufford and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a full-scale study that explores every aspect of money in Europe and the Middle Ages.

Book The Muslims of Valencia in the Age of Fernando and Isabel

Download or read book The Muslims of Valencia in the Age of Fernando and Isabel written by Mark D. Meyerson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The kingdom of Valencia was home to Christian Spain's largest Muslim population during the reign of the Catholic Monarchs, Fernando and Isabel. How did Muslim-Christian coexistence in Valencia remain relatively stable in this volatile period that saw the establishment of the Spanish Inquisition, the Expulsion of the Jews, the conquest of Granada, and the conversion of the Muslims of Granada and Castile? In explanation, Mark Meyerson achieves the first thorough analysis of Fernando and Isabel's policy toward both Muslims and Jews. His findings will stimulate much discussion among Hispanists, Arabists, and historians. Meyerson argues that the key to the persistence of Muslim-Christian coexistence in Valencia lies in the hitherto unexamined differences between the royal couple concerning matters of religion. More than a study of the minority policy of the Catholic Monarchs, however, The Muslims of Valencia is an exemplary analysis of the economic life of Valencia's Muslims and the complex institutional and social network that held them suspended "between coexistence and crusade." This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1991.

Book A Perspective of Wages and Prices  Routledge Revivals

Download or read book A Perspective of Wages and Prices Routledge Revivals written by Henry Phelps Brown and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in book form in 1981, this collection of essays originally written between 1955 and 1966 contains ground-breaking research and analysis on the study of wages and prices across seven centuries, with particular reference to builder’s wage rates and the price of a bundle of the commodities on which these wages might be spent. These seminal contributions to the economics of labour and economic growth did much to fuel the debate surrounding the problems of inflation, stability and changes in the purchasing power of money upon the book’s initial publication. These concerns are every bit as relevant in today’s post credit-crunch society and this reissue will be welcomed by all students of economic history and labour economics.

Book Medieval Iberia

    Book Details:
  • Author : Olivia Remie Constable
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 0812221680
  • Pages : 640 pages

Download or read book Medieval Iberia written by Olivia Remie Constable and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For some historians, medieval Iberian society was one marked by peaceful coexistence and cross-cultural fertilization; others have sketched a harsher picture of Muslims and Christians engaged in an ongoing contest for political, religious, and economic advantage culminating in the fall of Muslim Granada and the expulsion of the Jews in the late fifteenth century. The reality that emerges in Medieval Iberia is more nuanced than either of these scenarios can comprehend. Now in an expanded, second edition, this monumental collection offers unparalleled access to the multicultural complexity of the lands that would become modern Portugal and Spain. The documents collected in Medieval Iberia date mostly from the eighth through the fifteenth centuries and have been translated from Latin, Arabic, Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic, Castilian, Catalan, and Portuguese by many of the most eminent scholars in the field of Iberian studies. Nearly one quarter of this edition is new, including visual materials and increased coverage of Jewish and Muslim affairs, as well as more sources pertaining to women, social and economic history, and domestic life. This primary source material ranges widely across historical chronicles, poetry, and legal and religious sources, and each is accompanied by a brief introduction placing the text in its historical and cultural setting. Arranged chronologically, the documents are also keyed so as to be accessible to readers interested in specific topics such as urban life, the politics of the royal courts, interfaith relations, or women, marriage, and the family.

Book The Cambridge Economic History of Europe from the Decline of the Roman Empire  Volume 4  The Economy of Expanding Europe in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Download or read book The Cambridge Economic History of Europe from the Decline of the Roman Empire Volume 4 The Economy of Expanding Europe in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries written by E. E. Rich and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1967-05 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the economic history of Europe during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Book The Italian Cotton Industry in the Later Middle Ages  1100 1600

Download or read book The Italian Cotton Industry in the Later Middle Ages 1100 1600 written by Maureen Fennell Mazzaoui and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1981-07-09 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the dynamic advances in textile technology and changes in the structure of demand that accompanied the rise, in the late Middle Ages, of an Italian industry geared to mass production of cotton fabrics. The Italian manufacture, based on borrowed techniques and imitations of Islamic cloth, was the earliest large-scale cotton industry in western Europe. It thus marked a pivotal stage in the transmission of the knowledge and use of this textile fibre from the Mediterranean basin to northern Europe. The success of the Italians in creating new markets for a wide variety of products that included pure cotton, as well as mixed fabrics combining cotton with linen, hemp, wool and silk, permanently altered the patterns of taste and consumption in European society. Cotton, in various stages of proceeding, was at the heart of a complex network of communications that linked the north Italian towns to the source of raw materials and to international markets for finished goods. In the developing urban economy of northern Italy, cotton played a role comparable in magnitude to that of wool and shared with the latter certain basic features of early capitalistic organization.

Book Family  Work  and Household in Late Medieval Iberia

Download or read book Family Work and Household in Late Medieval Iberia written by Jeff Fynn-Paul and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-11 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Family, Work, and Household presents the social and occupational life of a late medieval Iberian town in rich, unprecedented detail. The book combines a diachronic study of two regionally prominent families—one knightly and one mercantile—with a detailed cross-sectional urban study of household and occupation. The town in question is the market town and administrative centre of Manresa in Catalonia, whose exceptional archives make such a study possible. For the diachronic studies, Fynn-Paul relied upon the fact that Manresan archives preserve scores of individual family notarial registers, and the cross-sectional study was made possible by the Liber Manifesti of 1408, a cadastral survey which details the property holdings of individual householders to an unusually thorough degree. In these pages, the economic and social strategies of many individuals, including both knights and burghers, come to light over the course of several generations. The Black Death and its aftermath play a prominent role in changing the outlook of many social actors. Other chapters detail the socioeconomic topography of the town, and examine occupational hierarchies, for such groups as rentiers, merchants, leatherworkers, cloth workers, women householders, and the poor.

Book Agricultural Economics Literature

Download or read book Agricultural Economics Literature written by United States. Bureau of Agricultural Economics. Library and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Agricultural Economics Literature

Download or read book Agricultural Economics Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Stake in the Ground  Jews and Property Investment in the Medieval Crown of Aragon

Download or read book A Stake in the Ground Jews and Property Investment in the Medieval Crown of Aragon written by Michael Schraer and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-02-26 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Stake in the Ground, Michael Schraer explores the economic functions of real estate amongst the Jews of the medieval crown of Aragon. He challenges the view of medieval Jews as primarily money-lenders and merchants, finding compelling evidence for extensive property trading and investment. Jews are found as landlords to Christian tenants, transferring land in dowries, wills and gifts. Property holdings were often extremely valuable. For some, property was a major part of their asset portfolios. Whilst many property transactions were linked to the credit boom, land also acted as a liquid and tradeable investment asset in its own right. This is a key contribution to the economic history of medieval Iberia and of medieval Jews. See inside the book.

Book A History of Medieval Spain

    Book Details:
  • Author : Joseph F. O'Callaghan
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2013-11-12
  • ISBN : 080146871X
  • Pages : 740 pages

Download or read book A History of Medieval Spain written by Joseph F. O'Callaghan and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medieval Spain is brilliantly recreated, in all its variety and richness, in this comprehensive survey. Likely to become the standard work in English, the book treats the entire Iberian Peninsula and all the people who inhabited it, from the coming of the Visigoths in the fifth century to the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella. Integrating a wealth of information about the diverse peoples, institutions, religions, and customs that flourished in the states that are now Spain and Portugal, Joseph F. O'Callaghan focuses on the continuing attempts to impose political unity on the peninsula.O'Callaghan divides his story into five compact historical periods and discusses political, social, economic, and cultural developments in each period. By treating states together, he is able to put into proper perspective the relationships among them, their similarities and differences, and the continuity of development from one period to the next. He gives proper attention to Spain's contacts with the rest of the medieval world, but his main concern is with the events and institutions on the peninsula itself. Illustrations, genealogical charts, maps, and an extensive bibliography round out a book that will be welcomed by scholars and student of Spanish and Portuguese history and literature, as well as by medievalists, as the fullest account to date of Spanish history in the Middle Ages.