The purpose of the book is to reconnect economic history with the perspectives of political economy and the history of international relations. It forms a dialogue between the disciplines that have been increasingly separated throughout the past decades. With first-rate economic historians and political economists writing for a wider audience, it simultaneously makes public debates and methods of recent cutting-edge research in economic history within a wider academic community.
This book was originally published as a special issue of the European Review of History.
Alexander Nützenadel is Professor of Social and Economic History at Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany.
Cornelius Torp teaches history at Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. In the last years, he has been Research Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, and the Freiburg Centre for Advanced Studies.