The phrase "Great Reset" entered public consciousness through the World Economic Forum's 2020 initiative, but the historical reality it describes is far older. Every major economic paradigm shift—the post-WWI reconstruction, the Bretton Woods settlement of 1944, the Keynesian dismantling of the 1970s, the Washington Consensus of the 1980s, and the post-2008 quantitative easing era—represents a moment when existing economic frameworks collapsed under their own contradictions and were replaced by new institutional arrangements. Great Reset History examines these pivotal transitions as a connected documentary record of how economic orders actually end and begin. Drawing on archival policy documents, IMF and World Bank records, G7 summit transcripts, and the work of economic historians, each chapter reconstructs a distinct paradigm shift—what structural conditions made the old order unsustainable, which institutional actors drove the transition, and whose interests were served and whose were sacrificed in the reorganization. The book treats economic resets not as conspiracies or as technocratic achievements, but as contested political processes shaped by power, ideology, and historical circumstance. The final section examines the contemporary convergence of conditions—sovereign debt accumulation, digital currency development, climate-driven industrial policy, and post-pandemic fiscal expansion—that analysts across the political spectrum have identified as preconditions for another fundamental restructuring. Great Reset History is a rigorous, evidence-based examination of how economic paradigms rise, stabilize, and ultimately give way—essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the present moment through the lens of documented historical precedent.