Sheilagh Ogilvie

'The European Guilds'

Bog | Engelsk

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 attracted debate and controversy. They were sometimes view

'Controlling Contagion'

Bog | Engelsk

How human institutionsmarkets, states, communities, religions, guilds and familieshave helped both to control and to exacerbate epidemics throughout history. How do societies tackle epidemic disease? In Controlling Contagion , Sheilagh Ogilvie answers thi