The Industrial Revolutions in Europe I, Volume 4 / Edition 1

by Patrick O'Brien

Overview

Modern European economic history is marked by an endeavour to transcend the traditional national case study approach, to use comparisons and to deploy economic theory in order to draw the manifold and diverse experiences of the regions, countries and multicultural empires of Europe onto a unified frame of reference. These two volumes exemplify this modern approach. This Volume 4 of the eleven part set entitled Industrial Revolutions contains thirteen papers, with an introduction, which adopt and apply a conceptual and explicitly comparative approach to European economic history as a whole. Volume 5 includes sixteen national case studies, again organized around or set within the context of theoretical principles and ideas derived largely from macroeconomic theory, social accounting, productivity measurement and regional analysis.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780631180739
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	04/06/1994
Series:	Industrial Revolutions , #4
Pages:	472
Product dimensions:	6.91(w) x 10.00(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

Patrick O'Brian, CBE, born Richard Patrick Russ, was an English novelist and translator, best known for his Aubrey-Maturin series of sea novels set in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars, and centred on the friendship of the English naval captain Jack Aubrey and the Irish-Catalan physician Stephen Maturin.

Table of Contents

VOLUME 4.

General editors' introduction: R. A Church and E. A. Wrigley.

Introduction: P.K. O'Brien.

1. Foreign trade and the industrialization of the European periphery in the nineteenth century: I. T. Berend and G. Ranki.

2. Banking in the early stages of industrialization: conclusion: R. Cameron.

3. Patterns of development in nineteenth century Europe: N. F. R. Crafts.

4. Wars, blockades and economic change in Europe, 1792-1815: F. Crouzet.

5. Economic backwardness in historical perspective: A. Gerschenkron.

6. Commercial expansion and the industrial revolution: C. P. Kindleberger.

7. Proto-industrializaton: theory and reality. General Report: F. Mendels.

8. An economic theory of the growth of the western world: D. C. North and R. P. Thomas.

9. Transport and economic development in Europe, 1789-1914: P. K. O'Brien.

10. The pre-history of the nineteenth century: W. N. Parker.

11. Industrialization and the European economy: S. Pollard.

The take-off into self-sustained growth: W. W. Rostow.

13. Urban growth and agricultural change: England and the continent in the early modern period.

Acknowledgements