Table of Contents

Editors' Introduction: Economic History "as if People Mattered" - Paolo Di Martino and Peter Scott and Andrew Popp
Politics, Society and Culture in the World of Production: Some Reflections on Francesca Carnevali's Legacy - Paolo Di Martino
Custom and Spectacle: The Public Staging of Business Life - Andrew Popp
The Political Economy of Financing Italian Small Businesses, 1950-1990s - Alberto Rinaldi and Anna Spadavecchia
Banks and Business Finance in Britain before 1914: A Comparative Evaluation - Leslie Hannah
Large-Scale Retailing, Mass Market Strategies and the Blurring of Class Demarcations in Inter-War Britain - Peter Scott
Large-Scale Retailing, Mass Market Strategies and the Blurring of Class Demarcations in Inter-War Britain - James T. Walker
'Made in England': Making and Selling the Piano, 1851-1914 - Lucy Newton
Twentieth-Century British History: Perspectives, Trajectories and some Thoughts on a Revised Textbook - Matthew Hilton
From Social Capital to Social Assemblage - Ken Lipartito
Economic History and Microhistory - Chris Wickham
Europe's Difference and Comparative History: Searching for European Capitalism - Andrea Colli
Editors' Conclusion - Paolo Di Martino and Peter Scott and Andrew Popp
Appendix: Bibliography of Francesca Carnevali's Published Work
Bibliography

About the Author

Peter Scott is an author and historian.

Reviews

This collection of highly challenging work by a much-respected group of historians will become a standard source illustrating the need for a deep reappraisal o economic history methodology, building effectively and with some flair on Dr Carnevali's contributions to the literature. There can be no more fitting tribute.
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