2008 - supplement 16

Preface: S.R. Epstein (1960-2007)

The Return of the Guilds: Towards a Global History of the Guilds in Pre-industrial Times

Women, Gender and Guilds in Early Modern Europe: An Overview of Recent Research

The Political Economy of European Craft Guilds: Power Relations and Economic Strategies of Merchant and Master Artisans in the Medieval and Early Modern Textile Industries

Ottoman Guilds in the Early Modern Era

The Guild in Modern South Asia

Brotherhoods and Stock Societies: Guilds in Pre-modern Japan

Rural Guilds and Urban-Rural Guild Relations in Early Modern Central Europe

Guilds Reappraised: Italy in the early Modern Period

The Silent Revolution: A New Perspective on the Emergence of Commons, Guilds and Other Forms of Corporate Collective Action in Western Europe

Chinese Guilds from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Centuries: An Overview

From Guild to Rotary: Hunters' Associations and Mali's Search for a Civil Society