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Sheilagh Ogilvie
How human institutions-markets, states, communities, religions, guilds and families-have helped both to control and to exacerbate epidemics throughout history.
How do societies tackle epidemic disease? In Controlling Contagion, Sheilagh Ogilvie…
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A comprehensive analysis of European craft guilds through eight centuries of economic history Guilds ruled many crafts and trades from the Middle Ages to the Industrial Revolution, and have always…
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What role did women play in the pre-industrial European economy? Sheilagh Ogilvie tackles this question by examining women’s contribution to a particular pre-industrial economy - the German state of Wurttemberg.
A comprehensive analysis of European craft guilds through eight centuries of economic historyGuilds ruled many crafts and trades from the Middle Ages to the Industrial Revolution, and have always attracted…
Sheilagh Ogilvie (University of Cambridge)
A magisterial new history of commercial institutions, this book shows how the study of merchant guilds can help us understand which types of institution made trade grow, why institutions exist…
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This volume provides a guide to an important, yet often confusing field of economic and social history - the growth of rural export industries between about 1500 and 1800. It…
The third volume of this three-volume history focuses on Germany’s late but explosive economic transformation after 1800, the cycles of war, defeat, and dictatorship from 1914 to 1950, and the…
Sheilagh C. Ogilvie (University of Cambridge)
State Corporatism and Proto-Industry focuses on the Wurttemberg worsted industry, an example of a ‘proto-industry’ which arose in many parts of Europe preceding factory industrialization. This book looks at how…
State corporatism and proto-industry focuses on the Wurttemberg worsted industry, an example of a ‘proto-industry’ which arose in many parts of Europe preceding factory industrialization. This book looks at how…
