The third volume of this three-volume history focuses on Germany's late but explosive economic tr...

This collection of essays provides an up-to-date introduction to 'proto-industrialization': the g...

This book illustrates how social institutions affected the economic development of rural communit...

This collection of essays provides an up-to-date introduction to 'proto-industrialization': the g...

State Corporatism and Proto-Industry focuses on the WÜ rttemberg worsted industry, an example of ...

A magisterial new history of commercial institutions developed through the study of merchant guilds.

What was the role of merchant guilds in the medieval and early modern economy? Does their wide pr...

Guilds ruled many crafts and trades from the Middle Ages to the Industrial Revolution, and have a...

What role did women play in the pre-industrial European economy? Was it brought about by biology,...

'From the Black Death to Covid, infectious diseases have killed far more people than hunger or vi...