Centre for History and Economics

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Centre Books and Centre-related Books

2022

Un empire de velours: L'impérialisme
informel français au XIXe siècle
David Todd

Empires of Complaints: Mughal Law and the
Making of British India, 1765–1793
Robert Travers

Ghosts of War: Nazi Occupation and
Its Aftermath in Soviet Belarus
Franziska Exeler

2021

Universal Basic Income in Historical Perspective
Peter Sloman, Daniel Zamora Vargas, Pedro Ramos Pinto (eds.)

Unsound Empire: Civilization and Madness
in Late-Victorian Law
Catherine L. Evans

An Infinite History: The Story of a Family
in France over Three Centuries
Emma Rothschild

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A Velvet Empire: French Informal Imperialism
in the Nineteenth Century
David Todd

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2020

Underground Asia: Global Revolutionaries
and the Assault on Empire
Tim Harper

African-heritage partner dances: Creolizing
connection, transnational movement
Atlantic Studies, Global Currents, Volume 17,
January 2020, Issue 1. Ananya Kabir (ed.)

Statelessness: A Modern History
Mira L. Siegelberg

2019

The Society of Prisoners: Anglo-French Wars
and Incarceration in the Eighteenth Century
Renaud Morieux

Pirates and Publishers: A Social History
of Copyright in Modern China
Fei-Hsien Wang

Economistes and the Reinvention of
Empire France in the Americas and Africa,
c.1750–1802
Pernille Røge

Modern Asian History
January 2019 Volume 53, Special Issue 01
Petitioning and Political Cultures in South Asia
Rohit De and Robert Travers (eds.)

The European Seaborne Empires: From the
Thirty Years' War to the Age of Revolutions
Gabriel Paquette

News from Germany: The Competition to
Control World Communications, 1900–1945
Heidi J. S. Tworek

2018

Unruly Waters
Sunil Amrith

Governing Islam Law, Empire, and
Secularism in Modern South Asia
Julia Stephens

A People's Constitution: The Everyday
Life of Law in the Indian Republic
Rohit De

The Invention of Sustainability:
Nature and Destiny, c.1500–1870
Paul Warde

The 1848 Revolutions and
European Political Thought
Douglas Moggach and
Gareth Stedman Jones (eds.)

The Environment: A History of the Idea
Paul Warde, Libby Robin, and Sverker Sörlin

2017

Freedom’s Debtors: British Antislavery in
Sierra Leone in the Age of Revolution
Padraic X. Scanlan

The First Serious Optimist: A. C. Pigou
and the Birth of Welfare Economics
Ian Kumekawa

Collective Choice and Social Welfare
(Expanded Edition) Amartya Sen

2016

Taming Babel: Language in
the Making of Malaysia
Rachel Leow

Lenin on the Train
Catherine Merridale

Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion
Gareth Stedman Jones

The Almoravid and Almohad Empires
Amira K. Bennison

Legislating Instability Adam Smith, Free
Banking, and the Financial Crisis of 1772
Tyler Beck Goodspeed

The Channel: England, France and the Construction
of a Maritime Border in the Eighteenth Century
Renaud Morieux

The Politics of Islamic Law: Local Elites, Colonial
Authority, and the Making of the Muslim State
Iza R. Hussin

Mobile Citizens French Indians
in Indochina, 1858–1954
Natasha Pairaudeau

2015

Selling Paris: Property and Commercial
Culture in the Fin-de-siècle Capital
Alexia M. Yates

Free Trade and its Enemies in France, 1814–1851
David Todd

Inequality: What Can Be Done?
Anthony B. Atkinson

2014

Religious Conversion:
History, Experience and Meaning
Ira Katznelson and Miri Rubin (eds.)

Histories of Health in Southeast Asia:
Perspectives on the Long Twentieth Century
Tim Harper and Sunil Amrith (eds.)

Sites of Asian Interaction:
Ideas, Networks and Mobility
Tim Harper and Sunil Amrith (eds.)

Power to the People: Energy in Europe
over the Last Five Centuries
Astrid Kander, Paolo Malanima & Paul Warde

2013

The Political Economy of Empire in the
Early Modern World
Sophus Reinert and Pernille Røge (eds.)

Crossing the Bay of Bengal: The Furies of
Nature and the Fortunes of Migrants
Sunil S. Amrith

An Uncertain Glory: India and its Contradictions
Jean Drèze and Amartya Sen

Lisbon rising: Urban social movements
in the Portuguese Revolution, 1974–75
Pedro Ramos Pinto

The Future of Nature: Documents
of Global Change
Libby Robin, Sverker Sörlin,
and Paul Warde (eds.)

Red Fortress: The Kremlin in Russian History
Catherine Merridale

Partition's Post-Amnesia: 1947, 1971
and Modern South Asia
Ananya Jahanara Kabir

Imperial Portugal in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions:
The Luso-Brazilian World, c. 1770-1850
Gabriel Paquette

Fear Itself: The New Deal and the
Origins of Our Time
Ira Katznelson

2012

Connections after Colonialism:
Europe and Latin America in the 1820s
Matthew Brown and Gabriel Paquette (eds.)

Rethinking the Keynesian Revolution:
Keynes, Hayek, and the Wicksell Connection
Tyler Beck Goodspeed

The Great Persuasion: Reinventing
Free Markets since the Depression
Angus Burgin

Modern Asian Studies
March 2012 Volume 46, Special Issue 02
Sites of Asian Interaction
Tim Harper and Sunil Amrith (eds.)

2011

Common Prostitutes and Ordinary Citizens
Commercial Sex in London, 1885-1960
Julia Laite

Eco-Republic: Ancient
Thinking for a Green Age
Melissa Lane

The Cambridge History of Nineteenth-Century
Political Thought, Volume 1
Gareth Stedman Jones and Gregory Claeys (eds.)

The Institutional Framework of Russian Serfdom
Tracy Dennison

The Inner Life of Empires: An
Eighteenth-Century History
Emma Rothschild

Secularizing Islamists?
Humeira Iqtidar

Migration and Diaspora in Modern Asia
Sunil Amrith

The Closed Commercial State: Perpetual Peace
and Commercial Society from Rousseau to Fichte
Isaac Nakhimovsky

Modern Intellectual History
Volume 8 / Issue 01, April 2011
Paul Warde, Alison Frank and Emma Rothschild

European History Quarterly
Special Issue: Europe and Latin America in the 1820s
Matthew Brown and Gabriel Paquette (eds.)

2010

Religion and the Political Imagination
Ira Katznelson and Gareth Stedman Jones (eds.)

The Idea of Justice
Amartya Sen

2009

Enlightened Reform in Southern Europe and its Atlantic Colonies, c. 1750-1830 Gabriel Paquette (ed.)	Press and Politics in the Weimar Republic Bernhard Fulda	Nature's End History and the Environment Sverker Sörlin and Paul Warde (eds.)
Territory of Desire Ananya Kabir

2008

L'identité économique de la France David Todd	Historicising the French Revolution C.Armenteros, T.Blanning, I.DiVanna, and D.Dodds (eds.)	Free Riding Richard Tuck
Enlightenment, Governance, and Reform in Spain and its Empire 1759-1808 Gabriel Paquette	Victorian Visions of Global Order Duncan Bell (ed.)	Energy Consumption in England and Wales, 1560-2000 Paul Warde

2007

The Wages of Destruction
Adam Tooze

Modern Intellectual History
Vol. 4, Issue 1, April 2007
C.A. Bayly and Shruti Kapila (eds.)

La fin de la pauvreté ? : Un débat historique
Gareth Stedman Jones

Global Debates about Taxation
Holger Nehring and Florian Schui

Identity and Violence
Amartya Sen

Le politiche dell'immigrazione in
Italia dall'Unità a oggi
Luca Einaudi

2006 and earlier

Decolonizing International Health Sunil Amrith	La France et l’Angleterre au XIXe siècle. Echanges, représentations, comparaisons Sylvie Aprile and Fabrice Bensimon (eds.)	The New Hegelians Douglas Moggach
The Early Stuart Masque Dance, Costume, and Music Barbara Ravelhofer	Journal of Contemporary History Vol. 41, April 2006 Catherine Merridale (Guest ed.)	Displacement, Asylum, Migration The Oxford Amnesty Lectures 2004 Kate E. Tunstall (ed.)
The Cambridge Companion to Adam Smith Knud Haakonssen (ed.)	Ecology, Economy and State Formation in Early Modern Germany Paul Warde	Living Islam Magnus Marsden
Ivan's War: The Red Army 1941-45 Catherine Merridale	The Argumentative Indian Amartya Sen	Global Responsibilities: Who Must Deliver on Human Rights? Andrew Kuper (ed.)
Postcolonial Approaches to the European Middle Ages Ananya Kabir	The Hollow Crown Miri Rubin	The Trinity Papers: Global Health [free registration required for access]
An End to Poverty? Gareth Stedman Jones	The Rise of Historical Economics and Social Reform in Germany 1864-1894 Erik Grimmer-Solem	'The autobiography of a nation': the 1951 Festival of Britain Becky E. Conekin
Journal of Contemporary History Richard J. Evans and Catherine Merridale (Guest eds.)	The management of common land in north west Europe Paul Warde, Martina De Moor and Leigh Shaw-Taylor (eds.)	Demography and Religion in India Sriya Iyer
Beyond Retribution Rama Mani	The Communist Manifesto Intro. by Gareth Stedman Jones	A Known Scribbler: Frances Burney on Literary Life Justine Crump (ed.)
Globalization in World History Ed. A.G. Hopkins	The Political Economy of British Historical Experience, 1688-1814 Donald Winch and Patrick O'Brien (eds.)	National Character and Public Spirit in Britain Roberto Romani
Adam Smith and the Classics Gloria Vivenza	Statistics and the German State 1900–1945: The Making of Modern Economic Knowledge Adam Tooze	Night of Stone Catherine Merridale
Economic Sentiments Emma Rothschild	Money and Politics Luca Einaudi	The Making of Modern Burma Thant Myint-U
Time and Work in England Hans Joachim-Voth	Paradise, Death and Doomsday in Anglo-Saxon Literature Ananya Jahanara Kabir	Plato's Progeny Melissa Lane
Common Security and Civil Society in Africa L. Wohlgemuth, S. Gibson, S. Klasen and E. Rothschild (eds.)	The Dam and the Nation: Displacement and Resettlement in the Narmada Valley Jean Drèze, Meera Samson and Satyajit Singh (eds.)	Unravelling the Nation: Sectarian Conflict and India’s Secular Identity Kaushik Basu and Sanjay Subrahmanyam (eds.)
State Corporatism and Proto-Industry: The Württemberg Black Forest 1590-1797 Sheilagh Ogilvie	The Work of Jacques Le Goff and the Challenges of Medieval History Miri Rubin (ed.)