Comparative Economic History Research Articles

A woman in history: Eileen Power, 1889-1940

This book tells the fascinating story of the life and work of Eileen Power, a major British historian who once ranked in fame alongside Tawney, Trevelyan and Toynbee. Using letters, diaries and reminiscences, Maxine Berg recreates the life of this charismatic personality, describing, for the first time, Power's remarkable intellectual and scholarly achievements at a time when she was acting very much outside the conventional female role. Her ability, coupled with her vivid writing and pioneer radio broadcasts, made Eileen Power's unique approach to history compelling reading and listening to a whole generation. Dr Berg sets Eileen Power's historical writing in the political and cultural framework of the interwar years, and shows how this early writer of women's and medieval social history helped to create a broad, comparative economic and social history for the succeeding generations.

The Needham Puzzle: Why the Industrial Revolution Did Not Originate in China

One of the most intriguing issues for students of Chinese history and comparative economic history is, Why did the Industrial Revolution not occur in China in the fourteenth century? At that time, almost every element that economists and historians usually considered to be a major contributing factor to the Industrial Revolution in late eighteenth-century England also existed in China. Chinese civilization, like the civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, and India, originated from agriculture. The first unified empire, Qin, was formed in 221 B.c. By 300 B.c., Chinese society had developed into a form that had many characteristics of a market economy, with most land privately owned, a high degree of social division of labor, fairly free movement of labor, and well-functioning factor and product markets.' This comparatively developed "market economy" probably created important attitudes toward profit and contributed to the swift diffusion of the best technology. In the Han dynasty (206 B.C.-A.D. 220), the iron-tipped plow, moldboard, and seed drill were widely used in the northern part of China, where the main crops were millet and wheat. The most significant improvements in Chinese agriculture came with the population shift from the north to the rice-growing areas south of the Yangtze River that started at the beginning of the ninth century, and especially after the introduction of a new variety known as "Champa rice" from Indochina at the beginning of the eleventh century.2 This variety, characterized by better drought resistance and faster ripening, enabled farmers to extend the agricultural frontier from the lowlands, deltas, basins, and river valleys to the better-watered hill areas, and allowed production of two and even three crops a year.3

Otsuka Hisao and comparative economic history research in Japan

(1993). Otsuka Hisao and comparative economic history research in Japan. Japanese Studies: Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 73-78.

VIII. The Depression, 1930–1935: Its Effects on India and Indonesia

This essay attempts to analyse the differential effects of the Great Depression on two very dissimilar economies bound only by the commonality of colonial overlordship. Though the motivation was noble enough, the quality and quantity of research that went into making this article has been well below par. For the Indonesian section, I was particularly hamstrung by my total ignorance of the Dutch language and also of the subtle intersectoral nuances of the economy. What I say about the archipelago is, therefore, much in the nature of broad, indicative statements culled from the data and interpretations available in English. Even these I say with all manners of qualification. This exercise in comparative economic history was thrust upon me in order to broaden my knowledge of other things in the universe. Perhaps, at the end of it all, I have become a trifle more knowledgeable. Nevertheless, writing this essay constantly reminded me of Daniel as he faced the lions: he was doing an extremely foolhardy thing under severe duress and with prayers on his lips.

A Comparative Economic History of Latin America: 1500–1914. 4 volumes. Volume I: Mexico. Volume II: Argentina. Volume III: Brazil. Volume IV: Peru. By Laura Randall. Monograph Publishing on Demand, Sponsor Series. Ann Arbor, Mich.: Published for the Institute of Latin American Studies, Columbia University, by University Microfilms International, 1977. Pp. 295; 268; 269; 231. $16.50 each.

A Comparative Economic History of Latin America: 1500–1914. 4 volumes. Volume I: Mexico. Volume II: Argentina. Volume III: Brazil. Volume IV: Peru. By Laura Randall. Monograph Publishing on Demand, Sponsor Series. Ann Arbor, Mich.: Published for the Institute of Latin American Studies, Columbia University, by University Microfilms International, 1977. Pp. 295; 268; 269; 231. $16.50 each. - Volume 39 Issue 2

The Response to Economic Challenge: A Comparative Economic History of China and India, 1870-1952

Journal Article The Response to Economic Challenge: A Comparative Economic History of China and India, 1870–1952 Get access Subramanian Swamy Subramanian Swamy Member of Parliament, India Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 93, Issue 1, February 1979, Pages 25–46, https://doi.org/10.2307/1882596 Published: 01 February 1979

A Comparative Economic History of Latin America: 1500–1914. Volume 1: Mexico. By Laura Randall. Ann Arbor, Michigan.: Published for the Institute of Latin American Studies, Columbia University, by University Microfilms International, 1977. Pp. 295; index, tables, notes, bibliography. $16.50.

A Comparative Economic History of Latin America: 1500–1914. Volume 1: Mexico. By Laura Randall. Ann Arbor, Michigan.: Published for the Institute of Latin American Studies, Columbia University, by University Microfilms International, 1977. Pp. 295; index, tables, notes, bibliography. $16.50.

REVIEWS AND SHORT NOTICES

REVIEWS AND SHORT NOTICES

The Role of Governments in Economic Growth in Early Modern Times

A discussion fifty years ago of comparative economic history would have taken a broader view and would probably have been concerned very largely with exploring along the trails blazed by Max Weber and Marc Bloch. They were interested in many other aspects of economic history besides economic growth and I hope that similar broader interests will shortly show signs of reanimation. In spite of the present popularity of quantitative studies of changes in production, I hope some discussions at this meeting will examine comparative studies of forms of economic organization and the human qualities those structures reflected or generated. But my remarks here accord with the present preoccupation with that kind of economic history in which the all-important questions relate to the causes of economic growth. And I limit myself to one aspect only, the influence of governments.

The Pattern of Austrian Industrial Growth from the Eighteenth to the Early Twentieth Century

The wealth of literature published in the last twenty-five years on economic growth, economic development, and comparative economic history contains little information about Austria-Hungary. Fortunately, this situation shows signs of improving as the few recent articles and monographs on the subject are beginning to be utilized in the more general literature. Although the general lack of attention to Austria-Hungary clearly indicates that serious analytical work on the economic history of the area is still in a very early stage, the relatively few studies published on the subject have already changed the views of scholars on economic developments in the Habsburg lands.

Economic Retardation in Nineteenth-Century Brazil

U UNLIKE the United States and the other regions of recent settlement, nineteenth-century Brazil did not develop as an characterized by relatively high wages. At first appearance this may seem surprising, for Brazil also had an abundance of land and high land-labour ratios, and might have been expected to follow a similar course with respect to productivity and to the distribution of income. Apart from its interest for students of comparative economic history, Brazil's economic retardation also raises some general analytical questions. The economy's conditions appear to contrast with models of underdevelopment whose chief feature is surplus labour. The Brazilian case also does not fit some other standard explanations of the economic retardation of the less developed countries. During most of the century the country was free both from far-reaching colonial domination and from the substantial political instability which affected some other Latin American countries following independence. Brazil's overall economic retardation can also not be attributed to some of the conditions characteristic of an enclave economy in which expanding exports have only limited effects on aggregate development. As noted below, conditions in the export activities made for a high foreign-trade multiplier; and after the i840's the country implemented a protective tariff policy which stimulated domestic manufacturing and led to the formation of strong linkages between export growth and industrialization.2 Thus, the nineteenth-century Brazilian experience offers an opportunity to focus on the causes of overall retardation in conditions which appear to have been relatively favourable for development. Given the relative paucity of primary and secondary materials on Brazil's economic history, the analysis and hypotheses advanced in this article can only be considered as preliminary. First of all it is necessary to discuss the main features of the nineteenth-century Brazilian economy, to provide the setting for a consideration of the conditions which appear to have limited the country's economic development.

Banking in the Early Stages of Industrialization: A Study in Comparative Economic History.

Banking in the Early Stages of Industrialization: A Study in Comparative Economic History.

Banks and the birth of industry in seven countries

Abstract This work is a study in comparative economic history, consisting mainly of a number of individual investigations into the industrial development and financial structure of selected countries. On this empirical basis Rondo Cameron and his collaborators attempt to analyse systematically the effect of the role played by banks and other credit institutions on early industrial growth.

Banking in the Early Stages of Industrialization: A Study in Comparative Economic History

Banking in the Early Stages of Industrialization: A Study in Comparative Economic History

Banking in the Early Stages of Industrialization: A Study in Comparative Economic History by Rondo Cameron (review)

Banking in the Early Stages of Industrialization: A Study in Comparative Economic History by Rondo Cameron (review)

Banking in the Early Stages of Industrialization; A Study in Comparative Economic History

Banking in the Early Stages of Industrialization; A Study in Comparative Economic History

Banking in the Early Stages of Industrialization: A Study in Comparative Economic History. By Rondo Cameron with the collaboration of Olga Crisp, Hugh T. Patrick, and Richard Tilly. New York: Oxford University Press, 1967. Pp. xv, 349. $6.50.

Banking in the Early Stages of Industrialization: A Study in Comparative Economic History. By Rondo Cameron with the collaboration of Olga Crisp, Hugh T. Patrick, and Richard Tilly. New York: Oxford University Press, 1967. Pp. xv, 349. $6.50. - Volume 28 Issue 4

Banking in the Early Stages of Industrialization. A Study in Comparative Economic History.

Banking in the Early Stages of Industrialization. A Study in Comparative Economic History.

Banking in the Early Stages of Industrialization: A Study in Comparative Economic History

Banking in the Early Stages of Industrialization: A Study in Comparative Economic History

Banking in the Early Stages of Industrialization: A Study in Comparative Economic History. By Rondo Cameron, with the collaboration of Olga Crisp, Hugh T. Patrick, and Richard Tilly. New York, Oxford University Press, 1967. Pp. xv + 349. $6.50.

Banking in the Early Stages of Industrialization: A Study in Comparative Economic History. By Rondo Cameron, with the collaboration of Olga Crisp, Hugh T. Patrick, and Richard Tilly. New York, Oxford University Press, 1967. Pp. xv + 349. $6.50.