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Textbooks (11 items)
There is no single suitable textbook for this course, but several good general surveys areavailable. Everyone is expected to read at least one of the following titles.
Feudal society - Marc Bloch, 1965Book | Background | Bloch, M. (1997). Feudal Society, Vol. 1: The Growth of Ties of
Dependence, Vol. 2: Social Classes and Political Organization. Chicago: University ofChicago Press.
The Fontana economic history of Europe: 1: The middle ages - Carlo M. Cipolla, 1972Book | Background
The Fontana economic history of Europe: 2: The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries -Carlo M. Cipolla, 1974
Book | Background
Economy of Europe in an age of crisis, 1600-1750 - Jan De Vries, 1976Book | Background
The economy of early renaissance Europe, 1300-1460 - Harry A. Miskimin, 1975Book | Background
The economy of later Renaissance Europe, 1460-1600 - Harry A. Miskimin, 1977Book | Background
An economic history of Europe: knowledge, institutions and growth, 600 to the present -Karl Gunnar Persson, 2010
Book | Background
The following titles discuss a number of concepst and theories to which the lecture willrefer.
Explaining long-term economic change - J. L. Anderson, Economic History Society, 1995Book | Background
Modelling the Middle Ages: the history and theory of England's economic development -John Hatcher, Mark Bailey, 2001
Book | Background
Background literature (2 items)
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Europe: the struggle for supremacy, 1453 to the present - Brendan Simms, 2014Book | Background
Medieval Europe - Chris Wickham, 2017Book | Background
Topic 1: Ecology and politics (6 items)
Was Europe's recourse endowment and climate particularly favourable to economicdevelopment?
Guns, germs, and steel: the fates of human societies - Jared M. Diamond, c2005Book | Essential | ch. 18, pp. 354-375.
Further literature (4 items)
The origins of political order: from prehuman times to the French Revolution - FrancisFukuyama, Francis Fukuyama, 2011
Book | Background | ch. 17
The European miracle: environments, economies and geopolitics in the history of Europeand Asia - Eric Jones, 2003
Book | Background | ch. 1, pp. 3-21
The wealth and poverty of nations: why some are so rich and some so poor - David S.Landes, 1999
Book | Background | pp. 3-28.
Global crisis: war, climate change and catastrophe in the seventeenth century - GeoffreyParker, 2013
Book | Background | ch. 1.
Topic 2: Society: Hierarchies and estates (18 items)
Class question: How did the hierarchical structure of society and its division intocorporate social orders affect economic behaviour?
The early growth of the European economy: warriors and peasants from the seventh to thetwelfth century - Georges Duby, 1974
Book | Essential | ch. 6, pp. 157-180.
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English society in the Later Middle Ages, 1348-1500 - Keen, Maurice Hugh., 1990.Book | Essential | ch. 1, pp. 1-26.
Further literature (15 items)
The Historiography of a Construct: “Feudalism” and the Medieval Historian - R AbelsArticle | Background | 7, 3, pp. 1008–1031
Mousnier and Barber: The Theoretical Underpinning of the "Society of Orders" in EarlyModern Europe - Armand Arriaza, 1980
Article | Background
Approaches to Pre-Industrial Social Structure - S RigbyChapter | Background | Rigby, S. (1999). Approaches to Pre-Industrial Social Structure.
In Orders and Hierarchies in Late Medieval and Renaissance Europe (Ed. Denton, J.).Toronto, Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, pp. 6-25.
The Language of Orders in Early Modern EuropeChapter | Background | Burke, P. (1992). The Language of Orders in Early Modern
Europe. In Social orders and social classes in Europe since 1500: studies in socialstratification (Ed. Bush, M. L.). Harlow: Longman, pp. 1-12.
France
A social and cultural history of early modern France - William Beik, 2009Book | Essential
Carnival: a people's uprising at Romans 1579-1580 - Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, 1980,c1979
Book | Background
Class and state in ancienregime France: the road to modernity ? - David Parker, 1996
Book | Background
Holy Roman Empire
Peasant classes: the bureaucratization of property and family relations under earlyHabsburg absolutism, 1511-1636 - Hermann Rebel, c1983
Book | Background
Society and economy in Germany, 1300-1600 - Tom Scott, 2002Book | Background
The peasants of Ottobeuren, 1487-1726: a rural society in early modern Europe - Govind P.Sreenivasan, 2004
Book | Essential
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England
English society 1580-1680 - Keith Wrightson, 1982Book | Background
Earthly necessities: economic lives in early modern Britain - Keith Wrightson, 2000Book | Background
3.Society: Population (12 items)
Class question: Was pre-industrial Europe a Malthusian economy?
The peasants of Languedoc - Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, John Day, George Huppert, 1974Book | Essential
Population and nutrition: essay on European demographic history - Massimo Livi Bacci,1991
Book | Essential | Read Chapter 6
Further literature (9 items)
The Brenner debate: agrarian class structure and economic development in pre-industrialEurope - T. H. Aston, Charles H. E. Philpin, 1985
Book | Background
British economic growth, 1270-1870 - S. N. Broadberry, 2015Book | Background | ch. 1, pp. 3-45.
A farewell to alms: a brief economic history of the world - Clark, Gregory, 1957-, c2007.Chapter | Background | Chapter 1 - To be read with care: Academic code for ‘I strongly
disagree with this book’. When reading the chapter, please think about how Clark’sapproach differs from Le Roy Ladurie’s in ‘The Peasants of Languedoc’. For in-depthreviews of Clark’s book see the articles in the European Review of Economic History(2008), Vol. 12 (2).
Nutrition and poverty - Siddiqur Rahman Osmani, World Institute for DevelopmentEconomics Research, 1991
Book | Background | Chapter: Second thoughts on the European escape from hunger, pp. 243-286 (to p. 266).
Population in history: essays in historical demography - D. V. Glass, David Edward CharlesEversley, 2008
Book | Background
Modelling the Middle Ages: the history and theory of England's economic development -John Hatcher, Mark Bailey, 2001
Book | Essential
The Malthus delusion - PERSSON, KARL GUNNAR, Aug 2008Article | Background
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Germany: a new social and economic history - 1996-2003Book | Background
Chapter 3: PopulationChapter | Background
Topic 4. Agriculture: The open field system (14 items)
Class question: Did the open field system help or hinder agricultural productivity growth,and for what reasons?
A social and cultural history of early modern France - William Beik, 2009Book | Essential
Volckart, O. (2004). Village Communities as Cartels: Problems of Collective Action and theirSolutions in Medieval and Early Modern Central Europe. Homo Oeconomicus 21, 21-40.
This reading is available as a scan which you can access via the moodle page - look for thelink in Topic 4.
Further literature (11 items)
Chapter 3: Military Technology and Political PowerChapter | Background
Obedient Germans?: a rebuttal : a new view of German history - Peter Blickle, 1997Book | Background | The Library is unable to provide an electronic copy of an extract
from this book, due to copyright restrictions placed on it by the publisher.
An age of transition?: economy and society in England in the later Middle Ages -Christopher Dyer, 2005
Book | Background
Common Rights and the Village CommunityChapter | Background
The Rise and Fall of the Manorial System: A Theoretical Model - Douglass C. North andRobert Paul Thomas, 1971
Article | Essential
The medieval economy and society: an economic history of Britain in the Middle Ages - M.M. Postan, 1972
Book
Rural society and the search for order in early modern Germany - Thomas Robisheaux,1989
Book | Background
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Rural society and the search for order in early modern Germany - Thomas Robisheaux,1989
Book | Background
Chapter 4: The Politics of AgricultureChapter | Background
Communalism: Universal Category or Ideological Construct? A Debate in theHistoriography of Early Modern Germany and Switzerland - R. W. Scribner, 1994
Article | Background
Chapter 2: The discrete society (c.1480 - c.1560)Chapter | Background
Topic 5.Agriculture: Change in East and West (13 items)
Class question: Why did agricultural development diverge between Eastern and WesternEurope? How did this affect the European economy in the long term?
Chapter 6: AgricultureChapter | Essential
The Cambridge World History of Slavery: Volume 3: AD 1420-AD 1804 - 2011Book | Essential | Manorialism and Rural Subjection in East Central Europe, 1500-1800
Further literature (10 items)
The Rise of Serfdom in Eastern Europe - Jerome Blum, 1957-07Article | Background
The Causes of Slavery or Serfdom: A Hypothesis - Evsey D. Domar, 1970Article | Essential
Seventeenth-Century Crisis in Brandenburg: The Thirty Years' War, The Destabilization ofSerfdom, and the Rise of Absolutism - William W. Hagen, 1989-04
Article | Background
An Economic Theory of the Feudal System – Towards a Model of the Polish Economy,1500–1800 - 1977-06
Article | Background
Communities and the 'Second Serfdom' in Early Modern Bohemia - Sheilagh Ogilvie, 2005Article | Background
Chapter 4: Institutional Change, 1500-1850Chapter | Background
Section D Chapter 2, Agriculture in the Modern Period in The agrarian history of westernEurope: A.D.500-1850,
Chapter | Background
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The Manorial-Serf Economy in Central and Eastern Europe in the 16th and 17th Centuries -Jerzy Topolski, 1974
Article | Background
Economic Decline in Poland from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth CenturiesChapter | Essential
Trends of Agrarian Economy in Poland, Bohemia and Hungary from the Middle of theFifteenth to the Middle of the Seventeenth Century."
Book | Background
Topic 6.Manufacturing: Craft Guilds (11 items)
Class question: Did craft guilds hold back development?
The Silent Revolution: A New Perspective on the Emergence of Commons, Guilds, andOther Forms of Corporate Collective Action in Western Europe - Tine De Moor, 2008-12
Article | Essential
Guilds, Innovation and the European Economy, 1400-1800 - Epstein S.R., Prak MaartenChapter | Essential | Please read the introduction, pp. 1-24
Further literature (8 items)
Did Medieval Craft Guilds Do More Harm than GoodWebpage | Background | Berezin, P. (2003). Did Medieval Craft Guilds Do More Harm
than Good? Journal of European Economic History 32, 171-197.
Wage labor & guilds in medieval Europe - Steven Epstein, c1991Book | Background
Craft Guilds, Apprenticeship, and Technological Change in Preindustrial Europe - S. R.Epstein, 1998
Article | Essential
The Rise and Economic Behaviour of Medieval Craft GuildsChapter | Background | Gustafson, B. (1991). The Rise and Economic Behaviour of
Medieval Craft Guilds. In Power and Economic Institutions: Reinterpretations in EconomicHistory (Ed. Gustafson, B.). Aldershot: Elgar, pp. 69-106.
A new theory of guilds and european economic development - Charles R Hickson, Earl AThompson, 1991-04
Article | Background
Organizational, Institutional, and Societal Evolution: Medieval Craft Guilds and the Genesisof Formal Organizations - Alfred Kieser, 1989-12
Article | Background
Guilds, laws, and markets for manufactured merchandise in late-medieval England - GaryRichardson, 2004-1
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Crafts, Guilds and the Negotiation of Work in the Medieval Town - Gervase Rosser, 1997Article | Background
Topic 7.Manufacturing: The putting-out system and manufactories (12items)
Amazon.co.uk: Money, Coins, and Commerce: Essays in the Monetary History of Asia andEurope (F...: Books
Webpage | Essential
Class question: Did the emergence of manufacturing outside the guilds pave the way toindustrialisation?
The Role of Rural Domestic Industry in Bohemia in the Eighteenth Century - Arnost Klima,1974-02
Article | Essential
The making of urban Europe, 1000-1950 - Paul M. Hohenberg, Lynn Hollen Lees, 1985Chapter | Essential
Further literature (8 items)
Proto-industrialization: the first phase of industrialization ? - Leslie A. Clarkson, EconomicHistory Society, 1985
Book | Essential
Urban Manufacture in the Proto-Industrial Economy: Culture versus Commerce? - Paul M.Hohenberg
Chapter | Background
Proto-Industrialization? Cottage Industry, Social Change, and Industrial Revolution - RabHouston and K. D. M. Snell, 1984
Article | Background
Proto-industrialization and proto-industry: the uses and drawbacks of two concepts -Wolfgang Mager, 1993-8
Article | Background
Proto-Industrialization: The First Phase of the Industrialization Process - Franklin F. Mendels, 1972
Article | Essential
Women and Proto-Industrialization in a Corporate Society: Württemberg woollen weaving,1590-1760
Chapter | Background
European proto-industrialization - Sheilagh C. Ogilvie, Markus Cerman, 1996Book | Background
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State corporatism and proto-industry: thewurttemberg black forest, 1580-1797 - Sheilagh C. Ogilvie, 1997
Book | Background
Topic 8.Commerce: Merchant guilds and urban leagues (10 items)
Class question: What was the function of merchant guilds? Did guilds help or restrictcommercial development?
Institutions and European trade: merchant guilds, 1000-1800 - Sheilagh C. Ogilvie, 2011Book | Essential | Read Chapter 2: pp. 19-40.
The sovereign state and its competitors: an analysis of systems change - Hendrik Spruyt,c1994
Book | Essential | Chapter 6, pp. 109-129.
Further literature (7 items)
Individual Enforcement of Collective Liability in Premodern Europe: Comment - LarsBoerner and Albrecht Ritschl, 2002
Article | Background
The Hanseatic League and the Concept of Functional Overlapping Competing Jurisdictions -Alexander Fink, 2012-05
Article | Background
Coordination, Commitment, and Enforcement: The Case of the Merchant Guild - AvnerGreif, Paul Milgrom and Barry R. Weingast, 1994
Article | Background
The fundamental problem of exchange: A research agenda in Historical InstitutionalAnalysis - A. Greif, 2000-12-01
Article | Essential
Credible commitment and cartel: the case of the Hansa merchant in the guild of latemedieval Tallinn - Pöder, Kaire, Apr 2010
Article | Background
Are the Roots of the Modern Lex Mercatoria Really Medieval? - Oliver Volckart, AntjeMangels, 1999-01
Article | Essential
The economics of feuding in late medieval Germany - Oliver Volckart, 2004-7Article | Background
Topic 9.Commerce: Intercontinental trade and the beginnings of
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globalisation (9 items)
Class question: To what extent did intercontinental trade contribute to Europeandevelopment?
When did globalisation begin? - K. H. O'Rourke, J. G. Williamson, 2002-04-01Article | Essential
Prices, the military revolution, and western Europe's comparative advantage in violence -PHILIP T. HOFFMAN, 2011
Article | Essential
Further literature (6 items)
Power and plenty: trade, war, and the world economy in the second millennium - RonaldFindlay, Kevin H. O'Rourke, 2009
Book | Essential | *Findlay, R. and O'Rourke, K. H. (2007). Power and Plenty: Trade, War,and the World Economy in the Second Millenium. Princeton, Oxford: Princeton UniversityPress, ch. 4, pp. 143-226.
Integration of global commodity markets in the early modern era - RÖNNBÄCK, KLAS, Apr2009
Article | Background
The political economy of merchant empires: state power and world trade, 1350-1750 -James D. Tracy, 1991
Book | Background | Brady, T.A. Jr. (1991). The rise of merchant empires, 1400-1700: AEuropean counterpoint, in J.D. Tracy, ed., The political economy of merchant empires,Cambridge, New York (Cambridge University Press), pp. 117-160.
The rise of the Atlantic economies - Ralph Davis, 1973Book | Background
The political economy of merchant empires: state power and world trade, 1350-1750 -James D. Tracy, 1991
Book | Essential | *North, D.C. (1991). Institutions, transaction costs, and the rise ofmerchant empires, in J.D. Tracy, ed., The political economy of merchant empires,Cambridge, New York (Cambridge University Press), pp. 22-40.
The political economy of merchant empires: state power and world trade, 1350-1750 -James D. Tracy, 1991
Book | Background | Parker, G. (1991). Europe and the wider world, 1500-1700: Themilitary balance, in J.D. Tracy, ed., The political economy of merchant empires, Cambridge,New York (Cambridge University Press), pp. 161-195.
Topic 10.Commerce: The impact of New World bullion (12 items)
Class question: How did the import of American silver and gold affect the Europeaneconomy and intercontinental trade?
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The Monetary Origins of the ‘Price Revolution’: South German Silver Mining,Merchant-Banking, and Venetian Commerce, 1470-1540 - Dennis O. Flynn, ArturoGiraldez, Richard Von Glahn, 2003
Chapter | Essential
Financing Empire: The European Diaspora of Silver by War - Stanley J. Stein, Barbara H.Stein, 2000
Chapter | Essential
Further literature (9 items)
The rise of merchant empires: long distance trade in the early modern world 1350-1750 -James D. Tracy, 1990
Book | Background | Barrett, W. (1990). World Bullion Flows, 1450-1800. In The Rise ofMerchant Empires: Long-Distance Trade in the Early Modern World 1350-1750, (Ed. Tracy,J. D.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 224-254.
All that glitters: Precious metals, rent seeking and the decline of Spain - DRELICHMAN,MAURICIO, Dec 2005
Article | Background
The Price Revolution: A Monetary Interpretation - Douglas Fisher, 1989Article | Essential
The great wave: price revolutions and the rhythm of history - David Hackett Fischer,ProQuest (Firm), 1999
Book | Background | Fisher, D. H. (1996). The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and theRhythm of History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 65-91.
Cycles of Silver: Global Economic Unity through the Mid-Eighteenth Century - Dennis O.Flynn and Arturo Giráldez, 2002
Article | Background
Imports of American Gold and Silver Into Spain, 1503-1660 - Earl J. Hamilton, 1929-05Article | Background
Prices, Wages, and Prospects for 'Profit Inflation' in England, Brabant, and Spain, 1501 -1670: A Comparative Analysis - John Munro
Article | Background
Economic effects of the European expansion, 1492-1824 -Jose Casas Pardo, 1992
Chapter | Essential | *Pieper, R. (1992). American Silver Production and West EuropeanMonetary Supply in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century. In Economic effects of theEuropean expansion: 1492 - 1824 (Ed. Casas Pardo, J.). Stuttgart: Steiner, pp. 77-98.
Precious metals in the age of expansion: papers of the XIVth International Congress of theHistorical Sciences - Hermann Kellenbenz, International Congress of Historical Sciences,
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1981Book | Background | The Library is unable to provide an electronic copy of an extract
from this book, due tocopyright restrictions placed on it by the publisher.
Topic 11.Politics: Mercantilism (13 items)
Class question: Did mercantilism implement pre-conceived concepts or was it theunintended consequence of rent seeking?
The Redistributive Role of Government: Economic Regulation in Old Regime France andEngland - Hilton L. Root, 1991
Article | Essential
Politicized economies: monarchy, monopoly, and mercantilism - Robert B. Ekelund, RobertD. Tollison, 1997
Book | Essential | Chapter 4, pp 92-123
Further literature (10 items)
Review: The Absolutism of Louis XIV as Social Collaboration - Review by: William Beik, 2005
Article | Essential
Power and plenty: trade, war, and the world economy in the second millennium - RonaldFindlay, Kevin H. O'Rourke, 2009
Book | Essential | ch. 5, pp. 227-310.
Mercantilism reimagined: political economy in early modern Britain and its empire - PhilipJ. Stern, Carl Wennerlind, 2014
Book | Background | Grafe, R. (2013). Polycentric States: The Spanish Reigns and the“Failures” of Mercantilism. In Mercantilism Reimagined: Political Economy in Early ModernBritain and Its Empire (Eds. Stern, P. J. and Wennerlind, C.). New York: Oxford UniversityPress, 241-258.
Mercantilism as Strategic Trade Policy: The Anglo-Dutch Rivalry for the East India Trade -Douglas A. Irwin, 1991
Article | Background
The Politics of International Trade Rivalry during the Thirty Years War: Gabriel de Roy andOlivares' Mercantilist Projects, 1621-1645 - Jonathan I. Israel, 1986
Article | Background
Structuring Politics in Early Eighteenth‐Century France: The Political Innovations of theFrench Council of Commerce - David Kammerling Smith, 2002-09
Article | Background
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Mercantilism and imperialism in the rise and decline of the Dutch and British economies1585-1815 - O'Brien, Patrick, Oct 2000
Article | Background
Mercantilism: A Rent-Seeking Society?Chapter | Background
Mercantilism reimagined: political economy in early modern Britain and its empire - PhilipJ. Stern, Carl Wennerlind, 2014
Book | Background | Stern, P. J. and Wennerlind, C. (2013). Mercantilism Reimagined:Political Economy in Early Modern Britain and its Empire. New York: Oxford UniversityPress, Introduction, pp. 3-17.
Mercantilist economics - Lars Magnusson, c1993Book | Background | Tribe, K. (1994). Mercantilism and the Economics of State
Formation In Mercantilist Economics (Ed. Magnusson, L.). Boston, Dordrecht, London:Kluwer, pp. 175-186.
Topic 12.Politics: Money (12 items)
Class question: What did pre-modern governments try to achieve with the help ofmonetary policies?
Debasements, Royal Reveneues, and Inflation in France During the Hundred Years' War,1415-1422 - Nathan Sussman, 1993
Article | Essential
Technologies of Money in the Middle Ages: The ‘Principles of Minting’ - Oliver VolckartDocument | Essential
Further literature (9 items)
The utility of a common coinage: Currency unions and the integration of money markets inlate Medieval Central Europe - Lars Boerner, Oliver Volckart, 2011-1
Article | Background
Asymmetric Information and Commodity Money: Tickling the Tolerance in Medieval France- Neil Gandal, Nathan Sussman, 1997-11
Article | Essential
Wool, cloth, and gold: the struggle for bullion in Anglo-Burgundian trade, 1340-1478 - JohnH. A. Munro, 1972
Book | Background | Capter 1, pp11-41
Money in the pre-industrial world: bullion, debasements and coin substitutes - 2016Book | Background | Munro, J.H. (2015). The Technology and Economics of Coinage
Debasements in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: with Special Reference to the LowCountries and England, in: ibid., Money in the Pre-Industrial World: Bullion, Debasementsand Coin Substitutes. Abingdon (Routledge), pp. 15-32.
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Bimetallism: an economic and historical analysis - Angela Redish, 2000Book | Background
Money and its use in medieval Europe - Peter Spufford, 1988Book | Essential | Yes, the whole book
The Late Medieval Bullion Famine Reconsidered - Nathan Sussman, 1998Article | Background
Power politics and princely debts: why Germany's common currency failed, 1549-56† -Oliver Volckart, 2017-08
Article | Background
Premodern Debasement: A Messy AffairDocument | Background
Topic 13.Finance: Bills of exchange and paper money (12 items)
Class question: How did cashless means of payment develop, and how did they affecttrade?
The International Payments Mechanism in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries - J.Sperling, 1962
Article | Essential
The Origins of the Modern Financial Revolution: Responses to Impediments from Churchand State in Western Europe, 1200-1600 - John Munro, 2001
Document | Essential
Further (9 items)
Annuities in Late Medieval Hanse Towns - Hans-Peter Baum, 1985-3Article | Background
Benefits of Empire? Capital Market Integration North and South of the Alps, 1350-1800Document | Essential | *Chilosi, D., Schulze, M.-S. and Volckart, O. (2018). Benefits of
Empire? Capital Market Integration North and South of the Alps, 1350-1800. Alsoforthcoming in Journal of Economic History 78.
The medieval market economy - John Day, 1987Chapter | Essential
The Bruges Money Market Around 1400 - Belgium) (1968Book | Background
Shadow interest rates in Stockholm and the integration of early financial markets,1660–1685: was Heckscher right? - Rodney Edvinsson, 2011-12
Article | Background
The history of negotiable instruments in English law - James Milnes Holden, 1955
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Money and Credit in the Economy of Late Medieval England - Diana Wood, 2004Chapter | Background
The Significance of Large Fairs, Money Markets and Precious Metals in the Evolution of aWorld Market from the Middle Ages to the First Half of the 19th Century
Chapter | Background | The Library is unable to provide an electronic copy of an extractfrom this book, due tocopyright restrictions placed on it by the publisher.
Tontines, Public Finance, and Revolution in France and England, 1688-1789 - David R. Weir, 1989
Article | Background
Topic 14.Sources of growth: Market size and market integration (9 items)
Class question: Why is studying market size important, and how can we estimate how itchanged over time?
Regional Fairs, Institutional Innovation, and Economic Growth in Late Medieval Europe - S.R. Epstein, 1994
Article | Essential
Integration of global commodity markets in the early modern era - K. Ronnback,2009-04-01
Article | Essential
Further literature (6 items)
Money, States, and Empire: Financial Integration and Institutional Change in CentralEurope, 1400—1520 - David Chilosi and Oliver Volckart, 2011
Article | Essential
European Goods Market Integration in the Very Long Run: From the Black Death to theFirst World War - G Federico, M. S. Schulze, O Volckart
Document | Background
Market Integration in the North and Baltic Seas, 1500-1800 - D S JacksArticle | Background
Economic laws and economic history - Charles P. Kindleberger, 1990Book | Essential | Chapter 4
The political economy of merchant empires: state power and world trade, 1350-1750 -James D. Tracy, 1991
Book | Background | Menard, C. (1991). Transport Costs and Long-Range Trade,1300-1800: Was there a European 'Transport Revolution' in the Early Modern Era?
Estimating Financial Integration in the Middle Ages: What Can We Learn from a TAR
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Model? - OLIVER VOLCKART, NIKOLAUS WOLF, 2006-3Article | Background
Topic 15.Sources of growth: Innovation and investment (10 items)
Class Question: Why did technology and investment contribute comparatively little topre-industrial growth?
A miracle mirrored: the Dutch Republic in European perspective - Jan Lucassen, C. A.Davids, 1995
Book | Essential | Read chapter: Shifts of Technological Leadership in Early ModernEurope. pp. 338-366.
Book production and the onset of modern economic growth - Joerg Baten and Jan Luitenvan Zanden, 2008
Article | Essential
Further literature (7 items)
Charting the "Rise of the West": Manuscripts and Printed Books in Europe, a Long-TermPerspective from the Sixth through Eighteenth Centuries - Eltjo Buringh and Jan Luiten VanZanden, 2009
Article | Essential
THE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY OF THE RENAISSANCE: THE ADVENT OF PRINTING ANDFINANCIAL INTEGRATION IN CENTRAL EUROPE - Chilosi, David, 2011
Article | Background | Chilosi, D. and Volckart, O. (2011). The Knowledge Economy ofthe Renaissance: The Advent of Printing and Financial Integration in Central Europe. CzechHistorical Review 109, pp. 262-282. The Library is unable to provide an electronic copy of an extract from this book, due tocopyright restrictions placed on it by the publisher.
Inventive Activity in the British Textile Industry, 1700-1800 - Trevor Griffiths, Philip A. Huntand Patrick K. O'Brien, 1992
Article | Background
Competition as a discovery procedureChapter | Background
The lever of riches: technological creativity and economic progress - Joel Mokyr, 1990Book | Essential | Chapter 4, 11
Sources of Productivity Change in Ocean Shipping, 1600-1850 - Douglass C. North, 1968Article | Background
Investment in Medieval Agriculture - M. M. Postan, 1967Article | Background
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Topic 16.Crises: The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries (10 items)
Class question: Malthus or money? What caused the crisis of the late Middle Ages?
The medieval market economy - John Day, 1987Book | Essential | Read: The Great Bullion Famine of the Fifteenth Century. In The
Medieval Market Economy, pp 1-54.
Modelling the Middle Ages: Economic Development in Theory and Practice - Hatcher, JohnBook | Essential | Chapter 2, pp 21-65
Further literature (7 items)
After the Black Death: Labour Legislation and Attitudes Towards Labour in Late-MedievalWestern Europe - Samuel Cohn, 2007
Article | Essential
Numismatic Evidence and Falling Prices in the Fourteenth Century - N. J. Mayhew, 1974-02Article | Background
Monetary Movements and Market Structure--Forces for Contraction in Fourteenth- andFifteenth-Century England - Harry A. Miskimin, 1964
Article | Essential
Once More Unto Breach - Miskimin, H A, Fall 1993Article | Background
England and the European depression of the mid-fifteenth century - Nightingale, P, Jan1997
Article | Background
Money, Population and Economic Change in Late Medieval Europe - W. C. Robinson, 1959Article | Background
The Late Medieval Bullion Famine Reconsidered - Nathan Sussman, 1998Article | Essential
Topic 17.Crises: The seventeenth century (11 items)
Class question: What was the relative importance of climate and of politics in theseventeenth-century crisis?
Global Crisis : War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century - Parker,Geoffrey, 2013
Book | Essential | Parker, G. (2013). Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophein the Seventeenth Century. New Haven, London: Yale University Press, ch. 1, pp. 3-25
The general crisis of the seventeenth century - 1997Book | Essential | Ogilvie, S. (1992/97). Germany and the Seventeenth-Century Crisis. In
The General Crisis of the Seventeenth Century (eds. Parker, G. and Smith, L. M.). London,
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New York: Routledge, 57-86.
Further literature (8 items)
The Economic Crisis of the Seventeenth Century after Fifty Years - Jan de Vries, 2009Article | Background
The Crisis of the Seventeenth Century - Trevor Aston, 1965Chapter | Background
Urban Decline and Regional Economies: Brabant, Castile, and Lombardy, 1550-1750 - LynnHollen Lees and Paul M. Hohenberg, 1989
Article | Background
The Decline of Spain: A Historical Myth? - Henry Kamen, 1978Article | Background
The general crisis of the seventeenth century - Geoffrey Parker, Lesley M. Smith, 1997Book | Essential | *Romano, R. (1985). Between the Sixteenth and Seventeenth
Centuries: the Economic Crisis of 1619-22. In The General Crisis of the SeventeenthCentury (Eds. Parker, G. and Smith, L. M.). London: Routledge & Kegan, pp. 165-225.
The Anthropogenic greenhouse era began thousands of years ago - Ruddiman, William F,Dec 2003
Article | Background
The general crisis of the seventeenth century - Geoffrey Parker, Lesley M. Smith, 1997Book | Essential | Steensgaard, N. (1978/97). The Seventeenth-century Crisis. In The
General Crisis of the Seventeenth Century, (Eds. Parker, G. and Smith, L. M.). London:Routledge & Kegan, pp. 32-56.
The Seventeenth-Century Crisis and the Unity of Eurasian History - Niels Steensgaard,1990
Article | Background
Topic 18.Political economy: State formation (12 items)
Class question: Which factors determined the timing of the creation of territorialmonopolies of force?
The sovereign state and its competitors: an analysis of systems change - Hendrik Spruyt,c1994
Book | Essential
The open constitution and its enemies: competition, rent seeking, and the rise of themodern state - Oliver Volckart, May 2000
Article | Essential
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War and the Birth of the Nation State - Richard Bean, 1973Article | Essential
Birth of the leviathan: building states and regimes in medieval and early modern europe -Thomas Ertman, 1997
Book | Background
Review: Beyond Marx and Hintze? Third-Wave Theories of Early Modern State Formation -Review by: Philip S. Gorski, 2001
Article | Background
The economic meaning of war and protectionChapter | Background | Lane, F.C. (1942/66). The economic meaning of war and
protection, in ibid., Venice and history, Baltimore (John Hopkins University Press), pp.383-398.
A framework for analyzing the state in economic history - Douglass C North, 1979-07Article | Background
The sovereign state and its competitors: an analysis of systems change - Hendrik Spruyt,c1994
Book | Background
Bringing the state back in - Peter B. Evans, Dietrich Rueschemeyer, Theda Skocpol, 1985Book | Essential | *Tilly, C. (1985). War Making and State Making as Organized Crime. In
Bringing the State Back In (Eds. Evans, P. B., Rueschmeyer, D. and Skocpol, T.).Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 169-191.
State Building by Bargaining for Monopoly Rents. - Volckart, Oliver, 2000Article | Background
No Utopia: Government without Territorial Monopoly in Medieval Central Europe - OliverVolckart, 2002
Article | Background
Topic 19.Political economy: Interstate competition, institutional changeand the emergence of modern society (13 items)
Class question: What drove institutional change in 17th and 18th-century Europe? Waspre-modern society inherently instable?
Central Europe's way to a market economy, 1000-1800 - VOLCKART, OLIVER, 2002Article | Essential
Chapter 'Government Control and Free Enterprise in Western Germany and the LowCountries in the Eighteenth Century.'
Chapter | Essential | Barkhausen, M. (1974). Government Control and Free Enterprise in
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Western Germany and the Low Countries in the Eighteenth Century. In Essays in EuropeanEconomic History 1500-1800 (Ed. Earle, P.). Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp. 212-273.Unable to scan as another chapter from this book has already been scanned for thiscourse.
Further literature (10 items)
Immigration and the Diffusion of Technology: The Huguenot Diaspora in Prussia - ErikHornung, 2014-01
Article | Essential
The rise and fall of the great powers: economic change and military conflict from1500-2000 - Paul M. Kennedy, 1989
Book | Background | Kennedy, P. (1989). The rise and fall of the Great Powers, London(Fontana), chs. 2-3.
States, war and capitalism: studies in political sociology - Michael Mann, 1988Book | Background
Imperial Law versus Geopolitical Interest: The Reichshofrat and the Protection of SmallerTerritorial States in the Holy Roman Empire under Charles VI (1711–1740): - Patrick Milton,2015-08
Article | Background
The military revolution: military innovation and the rise of the west, 1500-1800 - GeoffreyParker, 1996
Book | Background | Parker, G. (1988). The military revolution: Military innovation andthe rise of the West, 1500-1800, Cambridge (Cambridge University Press), chs. 2, 4.
Was feudalism inevitable? - Karl Gunnar Persson, 1991-01Article | Background
Innovation through Migration: The Settlements of Calvinistic Netherlanders in Sixteenth-and Seventeenth-Century Central and Western Europe - Heinz Schilling, 1983
Article | Essential
Charles Tilly. Coercion, Capital, and European States, AD 990–1990. [studies in SocialDiscontinuity] Basil Blackwell, Cambridge (Mass.) [etc.] 1990. xi, 269 pp. Maps. £25.00. -Henri J. M. Claessen, 1992-4
Article | Background
The effects of political fragmentation on investments: A case study of watermillconstruction in medieval Ponthieu, France - Karine van der Beek, 2010-10
Article | Essential
Gifts of Mars: Warfare and Europe's Early Rise to Riches - Nico Voigtländer andHans-Joachim Voth, 2013
Article | Background
Topic 20.The ‘little divergence’: Growth before industrialisation (9 items)
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Class question: How can we account for the economic success of North-Western Europerelative to the rest of the continent?
Progress and Poverty in Early Modern Europe - Robert C. Allen, 2003Article | Essential
The road to the Industrial Revolution: hypotheses and conjectures about the medievalorigins of the ‘European Miracle’ - Jan Luiten van Zanden, 2008-11
Article | Essential
Further literature (6 items)
The Great Divergence in European Wages and Prices from the Middle Ages to the FirstWorld War - Robert C Allen, 2001-10
Article | Essential
Accounting for the “Little Divergence”: What drove economic growth in pre-industrialEurope, 1300–1800? - Alexandra M. de Pleijt, Jan Luiten van Zanden, 2016-11
Article | Essential
Malanima, P. (2003). Measuring the Italian Economy. 1300-1861.Document | Background
Constitutions and Commitment: The Evolution of Institutions Governing Public Choice inSeventeenth-Century England - Douglass C. North and Barry R. Weingast, 1989
Article | Background
Political Regimes and Economic Growth - Adam Przeworski and Fernando Limongi, 1993Article | Background
Taking the measure of the early modern economy: Historical national accounts for Hollandin 1510/14 - J. L. Van Zanden, 2002-08-01
Article | Background
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