Supplementary Readings
Jan. 20 Agriculture
A. How did agriculture contribute to the Industrial Revolution?
W.H. Newell, "The Agricultural Revolution in Nineteenth Century France,"
Journal of Economic
History, Dec. 1973.
George Grantham, "The Diffusion of the New Husbandry in Northern
France," Journal of
Economic History, June 1978.
Robert Allen and Cormac O'Grada, "On the Road Again with Arthur Young,"
Journal of
Economic History (1988): 93-116.
Paul Bairoch, "Agriculture and the Industrial Revolution 1700-1914,"
Fontana Economic History
of Europe vol. 3.
Brinley Thomas, "Food Supply in the United Kingdom During the Industrial
Revolution," in
Mokyr, The Economics of the Industrial Revolution.
N.F.R. Crafts, "Income Elasticities of Demand and the Release of Labor
by Agriculture During
the British Industrial Revolution," in Mokyr, The Economics of the
Industrial Revolution.
E. L. Jones, "Agriculture and economic growth in England, 1660-1750:
Agricultural Change",
Journal of Economic History 25:1 (March 1965), 1-18; reprinted in his
collection, Agriculture and
the Industrial Revolution, ch. 3, pp. 67-84.
Robert Allen, "Agriculture during the Industrial Revolution", in Floud
and McCloskey, eds., The
Economic History of Britain since 1700, second edition, vol. 1.
P. K. O'Brien, "Agriculture and the Industrial Revolution", Economic
History Review 2nd. ser.
30:1, (February 1977), 166-181.
Gregory Clark, "Agriculture and the Industrial Revolution, 1700-1850",
ch. 4 in Mokyr, British
Industrial Revolution, pp. 227-266.
Grantham, George (1989), "Agricultural Supply During the Industrial
Revolution: French
Evidence and European Implications," Journal of Economic History
89(1) 43-72
E. W. Gilboy, "Demand as a Factor in the Industrial Revolution," in R.M.
Hartwell, ed. The
Causes of the Industrial Revolution in England; reprinted in Lieberman,
Europe and the Industrial
Revolution.
Joel Mokyr, "Demand vs. Supply in the Industrial Revolution," in Mokyr,
The Economics of the
Industrial Revolution, reprinted from Jour. of Econ. Hist., 1977.
B. Did enclosures free capital and labor for the Industrial
Revolution?
J.D. Chambers, "Enclosures and the Supply of Labour", Economic
History Review V:3 (1953).
McCloskey, Donald (1975), "The Economics of Enclosure," in W. N.
Parker and E. L. Jones
(eds.), European Peasants and Their Markets
N.F.R. Crafts, "Enclosure and the Labour Supply Revisited", Explorations
in Economic History
15:2 (April 1978), pp. 172-183.Michael Turner, "Cost, Finance, and
Parliamentary Enclosure",
Economic History Review XXXIV:2 (May 1981), pp. 236-248.
John Saville, "Primitive Accumulation and Early Industrialisation in
Britain", Socialist Register,
1969.
G. Philpot, "Enclosure and Population Growth in 18th Century England,"
EEH (January 1975),
pp. 29-46. See M. Turner's "Parliamentary Enclosure and Population Change
in England,
1750-1830," Explorations in Economic History (October 1976) and
Philpot's reply, pp. 463-472.
J.S. Cohen and M.L. Weitzman, "A Marxian Model of Enclosures," JDE (Feb.
1975).
N.F.R. Crafts, "Income Elasticities of Demand and the Release of Labour
by Agriculture during
the British Industrial Revolution", Journal of European Economic
History 9:1 (Spring 1980), pp.
153-168. Reprinted, with revisions, in Mokyr, Industrial
Revolution, pp. 151-163.
R.C. Allen, "The Efficiency and Distributional Consequences of
Eighteenth Century Enclosures,"
Economic Journal (December 1982), pp. 937-53.
Jan. 27 Industry and trade before industrialization
Is "proto-industrialization," as defined and elaborated by Franklin
Mendels, a useful concept in
organizing our knowledge about the causes or sources of "modern" industrial
development?
F. Mendels, "Proto-industrialization: The First Stage of the
Industrialization Process," Journal of
Economic History, March 1972.
Myron P. Gutmann, Toward the Modern Economy: Early Industry in
Europe, 1500-1800.
Maxine Berg, The Age of Manufactures 1700-1820, pp. 48-91.
Peter Kreidte, Hans Medick, Jurgen Schlumbohm, Industrialization
before Industrialization
Houston, Rab and K.D.M. Snell, "Protoindustrialization? Cottage
Industry, Social Change and
Industrial Revolution," Historical Journal 27:2 (1984)
E. L. Jones, "Agricultural Origins of Industry", Past and Present
40 (1968), pp. 58-71.
Feb. 3 The British Model
Why was England first?
N.F.R. Crafts, "Industrial Revolution in England and France: Some
Thoughts on the Question
'Why was England First?'" and comment by W.W. Rostow, Economic History
Review 30(1977):
429-41 reprinted in Mokyr, The Economics of the Industrial Revolution.
N.F.R. Crafts, "Macroinventions, economic growth, and 'industrial
revolution' in Britain and
France," The Economic History Review August 1995 v48; David S.
Landes, "Some further
thoughts on accident in history: a reply to Professor Crafts," The
Economic History Review
August 1995 vol. 48 n3.
F. Crouzet, "England and France in the Eighteenth Century: A Comparative
Analysis of Two
Economic Growths," in R.M. Hartwell, ed. The Causes of the Industrial
Revolution in England.
Crafts, N.F.R. (1984), "Economic Growth in France and Britain,
1830-1910: A Review of the
Evidence," Journal of Economic History 54(1), 49-67
Feb. 10 Continental alternatives: France
Is the pattern of industrialization on the Continent -- a different
pattern from that of Britain --
an indicator of Continental backwardness relative to Britain, or just a
different path to industrial
growth?
R. Roehl, "French Industrialization: A Reconsideration," Explor. in
Econ. Hist., 1976.
Robert R. Locke, "French Industrialization: The Roehl Thesis
Reconsidered" and Richard Roehl,
"French Industrialization: A Reply," Explorations in Economic
History 18 (1981): 415-435.
Robert Aldrich, "Late-comer or Early Starter? New Views on French
Economic History,"
Journal of European Economic History (1987): 89-100.
John Vincent Nye, "Firm Size and Economic Backwardness: A New Look at
the French
Industrialization Debate," Journal of Economic History XLVII (Sept.
1987)
Rondo Cameron and Charles E. Freedman, "French Economic Growth: A
Radical Revision,"
Social Science History 7 (1983): 3-30.
Feb. 17 Continental alternatives: Germany
Did tariffs, cartels, and the predominance of large banks shape the
structure and growth of
German industry?
Webb, Steven B. "Tariffs, Cartels, Technology, and Growth in the German
Steel Industry,
1879-1914," Journal of Economic History 40:2 (1980
Richard Tilly, "Mergers, External Growth, and Finance in the Development
of Large-Scale
Enterprise in Germany, 1880-1913", Journal of Economic History 42:3
(September 1982).
Robert C. Allen, "International Competition in Iron and Steel,
1850-1913", Journal of Economic
History 39:4 (Dec. 1979), 911-938.
Steven B. Webb, "Agricultural Productivity in Wilhelmenian Germany:
Forging an Empire with
Pork and Rye", Journal of Economic History XLII:2 (June 1982), pp.
309-326. See also Karl
Hardach, "Wheat, Rye, and the Sources of German Protection: A Comment on
Webb's Article",
Journal of Economic History XLIII:2 (June, 1983), p. 481, with
Webb's "Reply", p. 482.
James C. Hunt, "Peasants, Grain Tariffs, and Meat Quotas: Imperial
German Protectionism
Reexamined," Central European History 7 (1973), pp. 311-331.
Feb. 24 Technology
A. Is innovation independent of other aspects of the economy or does
innovation respond to
demand?
B. How important was science in the Industrial Revolution?
William N. Parker, "The pre-history of the nineteenth century", ch. 2 of
Parker, Europe, America,
and the Wider World, vol. 1.
Joel Mokyr, The Lever of Riches, 81-192, 273-99.
Charles K. Harley, "The shift from sailing ships to steamships,
1850-1890: a study in
technological diffusion," in Donald McCloskey, ed., Essays on a Mature
Economy: Britain after
1840
Nathan Rosenberg and L. E. Birdzell, Jr., "The Link between Science and
Wealth", Chapter 8 of
How the West Grew Rich. pp. 242-268.
J.B. Morrell, "Bourgeois scientific societies and industrial innovation
in Britain, 1780-1850,"
Journal of European Economic History Fall 1995 vol. 24.
Mar. 3 Standards of living
A. Did the standard of living in Britain improve before 1850?
E.J. Hobsbawm, "The British Standard of Living, 1790-1850," A. J.
Taylor, ed., The Standard of
Living in Britain in the Industrial Revolution; reprinted in Lieberman,
Europe and the Industrial
Revolution.
R.M. Hartwell, "The Rising Standard of Living in England, 1800-1850," A.
J. Taylor, ed., The
Standard of Living in Britain in the Industrial Revolution; reprinted
in Lieberman, Europe and the
Industrial Revolution.
E.J. Hobsbawm, "The Standard of Living Debate," A. J. Taylor, ed.,
The Standard of Living in
Britain in the Industrial Revolution
R.M. Hartwell and S. Engerman, "Models of Immiseration: the theoretical
basis of pessimism," A.
J. Taylor, ed., The Standard of Living in Britain in the Industrial
Revolution
T. S. Ashton, "The Standard of Life of the Workers in England,
1790-1830", Journal of
Economic History, Supplement IX (1949), as reprinted in Taylor, ed., The
Standard of Living, ch.
3, pp. 37-57.
Joel Mokyr, "Is There Still Life in the Pessimist Case? Consumption
During the Industrial
Revolution, 1790-1850" Journal of Economic History, (1988): 69-92.
G.N. von Tunzelmann, "The Standard of Living Debate and Optimal Economic
Growth," in
Mokyr, The Economics of the Industrial Revolution.
E.P. Thompson, "The Making of the English Working Class: Standards and
Experiences," A. J.
Taylor, ed., The Standard of Living in Britain in the Industrial
Revolution
E. J. Hobsbawm, "The human results of the Industrial Revolution,
1750-1850", ch. 4 of his
Industry and Empire, Baltimore: Penguin, 1968, pp. 79-96.
Peter H. Lindert and Jeffrey G. Williamson, "English Workers' Living
Standards during the
Industrial Revolution: A New Look", Economic History Review, 2nd. ser. 36:1
(February 1983),
1-25; reprinted in Mokyr, Economics of the Industrial Revolution,
ch. 9. pages: 25
John C. Brown, "The Condition of England and the Standard of Living:
Cotton Textiles in the
Northwest, 1806-1850", Journal of Economic History 50:3 (Sept.
1990), 591-614.
B. Did the quality of life deteriorate during the early Industrial
Revolution?
R. Floud, K. Wachter, and A. Gregory, Height, Health, and History:
Nutritional Status in the
United Kingdom 1750-1980.
R. Steckel and R. Floud, Health and Welfare during Industrialization
Roderick Floud and Kenneth Wachter, "Poverty and Physical Stature:
Evidence on the Standard
of Living of London Boys 1770- 1870, Social Science History 6
(1982), pp. 422-452.
Stephen Nicholas and Richard H. Steckel, "Heights and living standards
of English workers
during the early years of industrialization, 1770-1815", Journal of
Economic History 51:4
(December 1991), 937-957.
Stephen Nicholas and Deborah Oxley, "The living standards of women
during the industrial
revolution, 1795-1820", Economic History Review 2nd. ser. 46:4 (Nov.
1993), 723-49.
Carole Shammas, "Food Expenditure and Economic Well-Being in Early
Modern England",
Journal of Economic History XLIII:1 (March 1983), pp. 89-100. See
comment by John Komlos,
Journal of Economic History XLVIII:1 (March 1988), p. 149.
Jeffrey G. Williamson, "Urban Disamenities, Dark Satanic Mills, and the
British Standard of
Living Debate," Journal of Economic History XLI:1 (March 1981), pp. 75-84.
Jeffrey G. Williamson, "Was the Industrial Revolution Worth It?
Disamenities and Death in
19th-Century Towns," Explorations in Economic History 19 (1982), pp. 221-245.
John Komlos, "Patterns of Children's Growth in East-Central Europe in
the Eighteenth Century,"
Annals of Human Biology 13 (1986), pp. 33-48.
John Komlos, "Stature and Nutrition in the Habsburg Monarchy: The
Standard of Living and
Economic Development in the Eithteenth Century," American Historical
Review 90 (1985), pp.
1149-1161.
N.F.R. Crafts, "Some dimensions of the 'quality of life' during the
British industrial revolution,"
Economic History Review L (1997): 617-39.
Mar. 10 Work and family life
A. How did the contributions of women and children change during the
industrial revolution?
Louise Tilly and Joan Scott, Women, Work, and Family.
Joan Scott and Louise Tilly, "Women's Work and the Family in
Nineteenth-Century Europe,"
Comparative Studies in Society and History 17 (January 1975).
C. Nardinelli, "Child Labor and the Factory Acts," Jour. of Econ.
Hist. 1980, pp. 739-755.
Sara Horrell and Jane Humphries, "Old questions, new data, and
alternative perspectives:
Families' living standards in the Industrial Revolution", Journal of
Economic History 52:4
(December 1992), 849-880.
John S. Lyons, "Family response to economic decline: Handloom weavers in
early nineteenth-
century Lancashire", Research in Economic History 12 (1989), 45-91.
Jane Humphries, "Enclosures, common rights and women: The
proletarianization of families in the
late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries", Journal of Economic
History 50:1 (March 1990),
17-42.
Jane Humphries, (1987), "'The Most Free from Objection...':The Sexual
Division of Labor and
Women in 19th Century England," Journal of Economic History 47(4),
929-950
George Alter, "Work and Income in the Family Economy: Belgium, 1853 and
1891," Journal of
Interdisciplinary History, 15 (1984): 255-276.
Maxine Berg, "Women's work, mechanization and the early phases of
industrialization in
England", in Patrick Joyce, ed., The Historical Meanings of Work (1987)
Katrina Honeyman and Jordan Goodman, "Women's work, gender conflict, and
labour markets in
Europe, 1500-1900", Economic History Review 2nd. ser. 44:4 (Nov.
1991), 608-28.
Sonya Rose, "'Gender at work': Sex, class and industrial capitalism,"
History Workshop 11
(1985): 113-31.
Maxine Berg and Pat Hudson, "Rehabilitating the industrial revolution",
Economic History
Review 2nd. ser. 45:1 (February 1992), 24-50.
B. What do bosses do?
Marglin. S. 1976. What Do Bosses Do? in André Gorz. ed. The
Division of Labour: The Labour
Process and the Class Struggle ... pp. 13-54.
Landes. D.S. 1986. What Do Bosses Really Do? Journal of Economic
History September.
Clark, Gregory. 1994. "Factory Discipline." Journal of Economic
History 54 (no. 1): 128-63
Thompson, E. P. (1967), "Time, Work-Discipline, and Industrial
Capitalism," Past and Present,
56-97.
Rick Szostak .1989. "The Organization of Work, The Emergence of the
Factory Revisited."
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 11: 343-58.
Eric Hobsbawm, "Customs, Wages, and Work Loads in Nineteenth Century
England", in Briggs
and Saville, eds., Essays in Labour History.
Neil Mckendrick, "Josiah Wedgewood and factory discipline," Historical
Journal 4:1 (1961).
Mar. 17 Spring Break
Mar. 24 Entrepreneurship and management
A. Were French entrepreneurs too conservative?
D.S. Landes, "French Entrepreneurship and Industrial Growth in the
Nineteenth Century," Jour.
of Econ. Hist., 1949; reprinted in B. Supple, The Experience of
Economic Growth; reprinted in
Lieberman, Europe and the Industrial Revolution.
R. Roehl, "French Industrialization: A Reconsideration," Explor. in
Econ. Hist., 1976.
A. Gerschenkron, "Social Attitudes, Entrepreneurship and Economic
Development," Explor. in
Econ. Hist., 1953-54; reprinted in Gerschenkron, Economic
Backwardness in Historical
Perspective.
S.B. Clough, "Retardative Factors in French Economic Development in the
Nineteenth and
Twentieth Centuries," Jour. of Econ. Hist. Supplement, 1946.
R. Cameron, "Economic Growth and Stagnation in France 1815-1914,"
Jour. of Mod. Hist. 1
958; reprinted in B. Supple, The Experience of Economic Growth;
reprinted in Lieberman,
Europe and the Industrial Revolution.
Rondo Cameron and Charles E. Freedman, "French Economic Growth: A
Radical Revision,"
Social Science History 7 (1983): 3-30.
B. Did Victorian Britain fail?
Donald N. McCloskey, "Did Victorian Britain Fail?" Economic History
Review XXIII:3
(December 1970), pp. 446-459. See also N. F. R. Crafts, "Victorian Britain
Did Fail," and D. N.
McCloskey, "No It Did Not: A Reply to Crafts," Economic History
Review XXXII:4 (Nov.
1979), pp. 533-537 and pp. 538-541, resp.(The previous three readings are
included in Donald
McCloskey, Enterprise and Trade in Victorian Britain, chs. 5 and 6.
Donald McCloskey, "From Damnation to Redemption: Judgements on the Late
Victorian
Entrepreneur," in Donald McCloskey, Enterprise and Trade in Victorian
Britain, (reprinted from
Explor. in Econ. Hist. 1971)
Robert Locke, The End of the Practical Man: Entrepreneurship and
Higher Education in
Germany, France, and Great Britain, 1880-1940.
P.L. Payne, "Industrial Entrepreneurship and Management in Great
Britain", Cambridge
Economic History of Europe, Vol. VII, Part 1, ch. 4, pp. 180-230.
Sidney Pollard, "Capitalism and Rationality: A Study of Measurement in
British Coal Mining,
1750-1850," Explorations in Economic History 20:1 (January 1983),
pp. 110-129.
Sidney Pollard, The Genesis of Modern Management.
D. Aldcroft, "The Entrepreneur and the British Economy 1870-1914",
Economic History Review
XXII (1964), pp. 113-34.
D.C. Coleman, "Gentlemen and Players", Economic History Review XXVI:1
(Feb. 1973), pp.
92-116.
Peter Temin, "The Relative Decline of the British Steel Industry,
1880-1913", in Henry Rosovsky
(ed.), Industrialization in Two Systems.
Mar. 31 Banking and Finance
A. Were modern banks necessary for the Industrial Revolution?
Peter Mathias, "Financing the Industrial Revolution", ch. 4 of Mathias
& Davis, pp. 68-85.
Bertrand Gille, "Banking and Industrialisation in Europe 1730-1914,"
Fontana Economic History
of Europe vol. 3.
Charles P. Kindleberger, "Financial Institutions and Economic
Development: a Comparison of
Great Britain and France in the 18th and 19th Centuries," Explorations
in Economic History 21
(1984): 103-24.
D. Landes, "The Old Bank and the New: The Financial Revolution in the
Nineteenth Century," in
F. Crouzet, W.H. Chaloner and W.M. Stern, eds., Essays in European
Economic History
1789-1914
Svend Aage Hansen, "The transformation of bank structures in the
industrial period: the case of
Denmark," Journal of European Economic History 11 (1982): 575-603.
Charles P. Kindleberger, A Financial History of Western Europe
(1984).
B. Did German banks help or hinder economic development?
Richard Tilly, "Mergers, external growth, and finance in the development
of large-scale enterprise
in Germany, 1880-1913," Journal of Economic History, 42 (1982): 629-58.
H. Neuberger and H. Stokes, "German Banks and German Growth, 1883-1913:
An Empirical
View," Jour. of Econ. Hist., Sept. 1974.
R. Fremdling and R. Tilly, "German Banks, German Growth and Econometric
History," and
Neuberger and Stokes, "Reply," in Jour. of Econ. Hist., June 1976.
J. Komlos, "The Kreditbanker and German Growth," "Reply and Rejoinder,"
Jour. of Econ. Hist.,
June 1978.
Richard Tilly, "German Banking, 1850-1914: Development Assistance for
the Strong," Journal of
European Economic History 16 (1987): 113-152.
Apr. 7 Transportation and Trade
A. Were railroads a prerequisite for industrial development?
Patrick O'Brien, ed., Railways and the Econoomic Development of
Western Europe, 1830-1914
(1983).
R. Fremdling, "Railroads and German Economic Growth: A Leading Sector
Analysis with
Comparison to the U.S. and Great Britain," Jour. of Econ. Hist.,
Sept. 1977.
J. Metzer, "Railroad Development and Market Integration: The Case of
Tsarist Russia," Jour. of
Econ. Hist., Sept. 1974.
J. Metzer, "Railroads in Tsarist Russia: Direct Gains and Implications,"
Explor. in Econ. Hist.,
1976.
S. Fenoaltea, "Railroads and Italian Industrial Growth," Explor. in
Econ. Hist., Summer 1972.
B. Did Free Trade lead to greater economic growth?
A.G. Kenwood and A.L. Lougheed, The Growth of the International
Economy 1820-1980.
Donald McCloskey, "From Dependence to Autonomy: Judgements on Trade as
an Engine of
British Growth," in Donald McCloskey, Enterprise and Trade in Victorian
Britain
C.P. Kindleberger, "The Rise of Free Trade in Western Europe 1820-1875,"
Jour. of Econ. Hist.
1975.
Donald McCloskey, "Magnanimous Albion: Free Trade and British National
Income," in Donald
McCloskey, Enterprise and Trade in Victorian Britain
William Ashworth, A Short History of the International Economy since
1850
W.O. Henderson, The Zollverein.
Ronald Findlay, "Trade and Growth in The Industrial Revolution", in
C.P. Kindleberger and
Guido di Tella, eds., Economics in the Long View: Essays in Honor of W.
W. Rostow, vol. 1.
Apr. 14 Imperialism
A. Did Imperialism pay?
K.E. Boulding and T. Mukerjee, eds. Economic Imperialism
O'Brien, Patrick (1982), "European Economic Development: The
Contribution of the Periphery,"
Economic History Review 35(1), 1-18
Davis, Lance and R. Huttenback, Mammon and the Pursuit of Empire.
T.J. Hatton, J.S. Lyons, and S.E. Satchell, "Eighteenth Century British
Trade: Homespun or
Empire Made?" Explorations in Economic History 20:2 (April 1983),
pp. 163-182.
L.E. Davis, and R.A. Huttenback, "Public Expenditure and Private Profit:
Budgetary Decision in
the British Empire, 1860- 1912," American Economic Review, February
1977.
D.K. Fieldhouse, Economics and Empire, 1830-1914
A. G. Hopkins, "British Imperialism: a Review and a Revision", in New
Directions in Economic
and Social History edited by Anne Digby and Charles Feinstein, ch. 6.
P. K. O'Brien, "The Costs and Benefits of British Imperialism,
1846-1914," Past and Present 120
(August 1988), pp. 163-200.
P.J. Cain and A.G. Hopkins, "Gentlemanly Capitalism and British Overseas
Expansion I. The Old
Colonial System 1688-1850", Economic History Review XXXIX:4
(November 1986); and P.J.
Cain and A.G. Hopkins, "Gentlemanly Capitalism and British Overseas
Expansion II. The New
Imperialism, 1850-1945, Economic History Review XL (Feb. 1987)
P.J. Cain and A.G. Hopkins, "The Political Economy of British Overseas
Expansion", Economic
History Review, 2nd series, 33 (November 1980).
James Foreman-Peck, A History of the World Economy, Ch. 4,
"International Trade and
European Domination, 1875-1914".
J.R. Ward, "The industrial revolution and British imperialism,
1750-1850," The Economic History
Review Feb 1994 vol. 47.
B. Was Free Trade an imperialist strategy?
John Gallagher and Ronald Robinson, "The Imperialism of Free Trade,"
Economic History
Review 1953
O. Macdonagh, "The Anti-Imperialism of Free Trade," Economic History
Review XIV(1962):
489-501
D.C.M. Platt, "The Imperialism of Free Trade: Some Reservations,"
Economic History Review,
1968
A. G. Hopkins, "Economic Imperialism in West Africa: Lagos 1880- 92,"
Economic History
Review 1968
D.C.M. Platt, "Further Objections to an Imperialism of Free Trade,
1830-1860", Economic
History Review, XXVI:1 (February 1973), pp. 77-91.
W.M. Mathews, "The Imperialism of Free Trade: Peru 1820-1870",
Economic History Review,
XXI:3 (1968), pp. 562-579.
Carlos Manuel Pelaez, "The Theory and Reality of Imperialism in the
Coffee Economy of
Nineteenth Century Brazil," Economic History Review 1976
W.R. Louis, Imperialism: the Robinson and Gallagher Controversy
Apr. 21 Late industrialization and the advantages of
backwardness
A. The advantages of backwardness
Ivan T. Berend and Gyorgy Ranki, Economic Development in East-Central
Europe in the 19th
and 20th Centuries,
Lars G. Sandberg, "Ignorance, Poverty and Economic Backwardness in the
Early Stages of
European Industrialization: Variations on Alexander Gerschenkron's Grand
Theme," Journal of
European Economic History, (1982): 675-698.
William Ashworth, "Typologies and Evidence: Has Nineteenth Century
Europe a Guide to
Economic Growth?" Econ. Hist. Rev., Feb. 1977.
William Ashworth, "Backwardness, Discontinuity and Industrial
Development," Econ. Hist. Rev.,
April 1970.
A. Gerschenkron, "Notes on the Role of Industrial Growth in Italy, 1881-
1913," in
Gerschenkron, Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective.
Vaccaro, "Industrialization in Spain and Italy (1860-1914)"0, 709-52.
J. Komlos, "Economic Growth and Industrialization in Hungary,
1880-1913," Journal of
European Economic History 1981, 5-46.
R.J. Olsen, "Gold, Foreign Capital and the Industrialization of Russia,"
Journal of European
Economic History 1985, 143-54.
M.R. Jackson, "Industrial Output in Romania and the Historical Regions,
1880-1930," Journal of
European Economic History 1986, Part I, pp. 59-112, Part II, pp. 231-58.
O. Okyar, "A New Look at the Problem of Economic Growth in the Ottoman
Empire,1880-1914"
Journal of European Economic History 1987, 7-50.
S. Heikkinen and R. Hjierpp, "The Growth of Finnish Industry in
1860-1913, Cuases and
Linkages" Journal of European Economic History 1987, 227-245.
R. Joseph Harrison, An economic history of modern Spain
Peter Gattrell, The Tsarist Economy, 1850-1917
C. Knick Harley, "Substitution for prerequisites: endogenous
institutions and comparative
economic history," in Patterns of European Industrialization edited
byRichard Sylla and Gianni
Toniolo, pp. 29-44.
Richard Sylla, "The role of banks," in Patterns of European
Industrialization edited byRichard
Sylla and Gianni Toniolo, pp. 45-63.
B. The role of the state in late industrialization
Barry Supple, "The State and the Industrial Revolution", Fontana
Economic History of Europe
vol. 3.
Wolfram Fischer, "Government Activity and Industrialization in Germany,
1815-1870," reprinted
in Lieberman, Europe and the Industrial Revolution.
A. Kahan, "Government Policy and the Industrialization of Russia,"
Jour. of Econ. Hist., Dec.
1967.
C. Education and economic development
M. Sanderson, "Literacy and Social Mobility in the Industrial Revolution
in England," Past and
Present 1972, pp. 75-104.
E. G. West, "Literacy and the Industrial Revolution," in Mokyr, The
Economics of the Industrial
Revolution.
E. G. West, "Resource Allocation and Growth in Early Nineteenth- Century
British Education,"
Economic History Review April 1970
J.S. Hurt, "Professor West on Early Nineteenth Century Education,"
Economic History Review
November 1971
Lars Sandburg, "The Case of the Impoverished Sophisticate," Journal
of Economic History, 1979
M. Sanderson, "Literacy and Social Mobility in the Industrial Revolution
in England," Past and
Present, August 1972
J.H. Weiss, The Making of Technological Man. The Social Origins of
French Engineering
Education (1982)
Robert Anderson, "Secondary Schools and Scottish Society in the 19th
Century," Past and
Present November 1985: 176-203.
W.D. Rubinstein, "Education and the social origins of British elites,
1880-1970," Past and Present
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