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This is the first book to examine the process of railway development in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and China from historical and comparative perspectives.

To provide an understanding of financial globalization from a historical point of view, this book sheds light on international banking in Asia before World War II.

This edited volume represents the latest research on intersections of war, state formation, and political economy, i.e., how conflicts have affected short- and long-run development of economies and the formation (or destruction) of states and their political economies.

This book describes the history of the IMF from its birth, through the Bretton Woods era, and in the aftermath. All the chapters are archive-based academic studies providing deep insights with historical background, which makes this book the first thoroughly independent achievement in the field of IMF history.

By analyzing the specificities of African business culture, as well as the dynamically changing African policy context, the author sheds new light on the development of African enterprises, markets and institutions.

This book presents and uses a major, new database of the most serious forms of internal resistance to the Nazi state to study empirically the whole phenomenon of resistance to an authoritarian regime.

This monograph aims to analyze the economic and business history of colonial India from a corporate perspective by clarifying the historical role of institutional developments based on archival evidence of a representative enterprise.

This contributed volume applies cliometric methods to the study of family and households in order to derive global patterns and determine their impact on economic development.

This book sheds new light on the role of industrial districts in the industrial development of the past and present.

This is the first book to examine the process of railway development in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and China from historical and comparative perspectives.