History and Economic Life: A Student’s Guide to Approaching Economic and Social History Sources

Author:   Georg Christ ,  Philipp R. Rössner
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9781138581227


Pages:   296
Publication Date:   17 March 2020
Format:   Hardback
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History and Economic Life: A Student’s Guide to Approaching Economic and Social History Sources


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History and Economic Life offers students a wide-ranging introduction to both quantitative and qualitative approaches to interpreting economic history sources from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century. Having identified an ever-widening gap between the use of qualitative sources by cultural historians and quantitative sources by economic historians, the book aims to bridge the divide by making economic history sources more accessible to students and the wider public, and highlighting the need for a complementary rather than exclusive approach. Divided into two parts, the book begins by equipping students with a toolbox to approach economic history sources, considering the range of sources that might be of use and introducing different ways of approaching them. The second part consists of case studies that examine how economic historians use such sources, helping readers to gain a sense of context and understanding of how these sources can be used. The book thereby sheds light on important debates both within and beyond the field, and highlights the benefits gained when combining qualitative and quantitative approaches to source analysis. Introducing sources often avoided in culturally-minded history or statistically-minded economic history courses respectively, and advocating a combined quantitative and qualitative approach, it is an essential resource for students undertaking source analysis within the field.

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Author:   Georg Christ ,  Philipp R. Rössner
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.710kg
ISBN:  

9781138581227


ISBN 10:   1138581224
Pages:   296
Publication Date:   17 March 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Why and how do we read economic history sources? Part 1: Toolbox 1 The Study of Economic History Methods and Sources 2 What do we analyse - typology of sources 3 How to read economic history sources quantitatively 4 How do we analyse sources: Source analysis – the qualitative method Part 2: Case Studies 5 Origins of Capitalism: Transcultural Trade or Pepper Travelling from India to England 6 Origins of Capitalism II: Medieval urban property markets: Thirteenth-century Coventry revisited 7 Counting cows and coins: Monitoring the economy through port records, and trade statistics in the early modern period 8 Historical account books as a source for quantitative history 9 History through objects: The Example of Coins 10 The news and numbers: A guide to using digitized newspapers 11 Monsieur le Directeur: Letters and ‘Ordinary’ Investors in Modern France

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'A valuable and very welcome introduction to the rich variety of approaches to research in economic history'. Martin Chick, Professor of Economic History, University of Edinburgh, UK


'A valuable and very welcome introduction to the rich variety of approaches to research in economic history'. Martin Chick, Professor of Economic History, University of Edinburgh, UK


Author Information

Georg Christ is a Senior Lecturer in Medieval and Early Modern History at the University of Manchester, UK. His research focuses on the late medieval eastern Mediterranean and Veneto-Mamluk trade and political relations, the history of knowledge management and the late medieval socio-economic transition. Philipp R. Rössner is a Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Manchester, UK, and Member of the Young Academy, Saxon Academy of Sciences. His publications and research interests are in late medieval and early modern German cultural and monetary history, history of capitalism, history of the Reformation, eighteenth-century Scotland, history of political economy and pre-classical economic reasoning (Cameralism, ‘mercantilism’).

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