Prof Neil Cummins SAR 5.13 and Prof Christopher Minns SAR 6.15

This course is available as an outside option to students on non-Economic History programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students.

The course examines the inter-relationships between the development of the international economy and the growth of national economies until the late nineteenth century. The course is designed to introduce students not only to a wide variety of topics and issues, but also to the wide variety of approaches used by historians. The course includes analyses of the original leading nation, Britain, and its replacement, the United States, as well as the catch-up of areas such as continental Europe, and the failure to catch-up of earlier well-placed areas such as Latin America. 

This course is delivered through a combination of classes and lectures totalling a minimum of 20 hours across AutmnTerm.

This course includes a reading week in Week 6 of AT.

Students are expected to write an annotated bibliography, a very short essay and a longer essay during the term.

The following are particularly useful:

• R C Allen, Global Economic History: A Very Short Introduction (2011).
• K H O’Rourke and J G Williamson, Globalization and History: The Evolution of a Nineteenth-Century Atlantic Economy (1999).
• G. Clark, A Farewell to Alms (2007)

(A complete reading list and class topics will be given out at the first meeting.)

Exam (100%, duration: 2 hours) in the January exam period.