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Premodern Economic History 1000–1800
Background
Hatcher, John and Mark Bailey. Modelling the Middle Ages. Oxford: OUP, 2001.
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Roy, Tirthankar and Giorgio Riello. Global Economic History. London: Bloomsbury, 2019.
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Population
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Campbell, Cameron, James Z. Lee, and Tommy Bengtsson. "Economic Stress and Mortality." In Life under Pressure. MIT Press, 2004.
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Agriculture
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Elvin, M. The Pattern of the Chinese Past. London: Eyre Methuen, 1973, Ch. 9.
White, Lynn Townsend. Medieval Technology and Social Change. London: OUP, 1962, Ch. 2.
Guilds
Epstein, S.R. and Maarten Prak. "Introduction: Guilds, Innovation, and the European Economy." In Guilds, Innovation and the European Economy, 1400–1800. CUP, 2008.
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Rural Industry
Huang, P.C. The Peasant Family and Rural Development in the Yangzi Delta, 1350–1988. Stanford UP, 1990, Ch. 5.
Ogilvie, S. State Corporatism and Proto-Industry. CUP, 1997, Ch. 2.
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Technology and Human Capital
Epstein, Stephan R. "Transferring Technical Knowledge." In Technology, Skills and the Pre-Modern Economy. Brill, 2013.
Schäfer, Dagmar and Marcus Popplov. "Technology and innovation." In Cambridge World History, vol. 5. 2015.
Raman, Alka. "Indian Cotton Textiles and British Industrialisation." EcHR 75, no. 2 (2022): 447–474.
Maw, Peter et al. "After the Great Inventions." EcHR 75, no. 1 (2022): 22–55.
Consumption and Material Culture
Berg, M. "In Pursuit of Luxury." Past and Present 182 (2004): 85–142.
De Vries, J. "The Industrial Revolution and the Industrious Revolution." JEH (1994): 249–70.
Trentmann, F. Empire of Things. London, 2016.
Allen, R.C. and J.L. Weisdorf. "Was There an 'Industrious Revolution'?" EcHR 64, no. 3 (2011): 715–729.
Brook, T. Confusions of Pleasure. 1998.
De Vries, J. The Industrious Revolution. CUP, 2008, Ch. 1–4.
Shammas, C. The Pre-Industrial Consumer in England and America. Oxford, 1990.
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States and War
Vries, P. "Public finance in China and Britain in the long eighteenth century." LSE Working Paper.
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Johnson, N.D. and Mark Koyama. "States and economic growth." Explorations in Economic History 64 (2017): 1–20.
Empire and Expansion
Bowen, H.V. The Business of Empire. CUP, 2005, Ch. 2.
Gee, Joshua. The Trade and Navigation of Great-Britain Considered. London, 1729.
Grafe, R. and A.M. Irigoin. "A Stakeholder Empire." EcHR 65, no. 2 (2012): 609–651.
Modern Economic History 1800–2000
Economic Growth in the Long Run
Bolt, Jutta and J.L. van Zanden. "The Maddison Project." EcHR 67, no. 3 (2014): 627–651.
Prados de la Escosura, Leandro. "World Human Development: 1870–2007." Review of Income and Wealth 61, no. 2 (2015): 220–47.
Health, Living Standards and Demography
Steckel, Richard. "Stature and the standard of living." JEL 33 (1995): 1903–40.
Boyer, George R. "Malthus was right after all." Journal of Political Economy 97, no. 1 (1989): 93–114.
Deaton, Angus. The Great Escape. Princeton UP, 2013.
Markets, Exchange and Organization
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Lydon, Ghislaine. On Trans-Saharan Trails. CUP, 2009, Ch. 5.
Olson, Mancur. Power and Prosperity. Basic Books, 2000, Ch. 1.
States and Economies
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Karaman, K.K. and S. Pamuk. "Different paths to the modern state." APSR 107, no. 3 (2013): 603–626.
Johnson, N.D. and M. Koyama. "States and economic growth." Explorations in EH 64 (2017): 1–20.
Women in Economic History
Goldin, Claudia. "The quiet revolution." AER 96 (2006): 1–21.
Candido, Mariana P. and Eugénia Rodrigues. "African Women's Access and Rights to Property." African Economic History 43 (2015): 1–18.
Wu, Alice H. "Gender Stereotyping in Academia." Working Paper, 2017.
Barber, Brad M. and Terrance Odean. "Boys will be Boys." QJE 116, no. 1 (2001): 261–292.
Berg, Maxine. A Woman in History: Eileen Power. CUP, 1996.
Goldin, Claudia. "A Grand Gender Convergence." AER 104, no. 4 (2014): 1091–1119.