This collection represents a modest attempt to chart a new course for the intellectual discipline known as economic history. A second audience should be established scholars who are now or…

Contains papers that offer regional diversity: two papers with principal focus on England, one on Germany, one on Australia, and three on the United States.

Absolute values and their completions - such as the p-adic number fields - play an important role in number theory. In valuation theory, the notion of completion must be replaced…

Explores the implications of an idea: we must understand the oceans of the past to protect the oceans of the future. This title shows how skewed visions of the past…