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Introduction -- Why Economic Growth and the Methodology of Economic History |
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Solow, Robert. "Economics: Is Something Missing?"
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2 |
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Late Roman Antiquity and Barbarian Europe |
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Lopez, Robert. The Commercial Revolution of the Middle Ages, pp. 1-26.
Bairoch, Paul. Chapter 7 in Cities and Economic Development. |
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3 |
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The Structure of Medieval Life: Manorialism and Feudalism |
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Duby, Georges. Early Growth of the European Economy, pp. 162-180.
Fossier, Robert. Chapter 2 in Peasant Life in the Medieval West.
Genicot, Leopold. Chapter 1 in Rural Communities in the Medieval West. |
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Assignment Due: First Discussion Paper (1 Page).
Please Write a One Page Response to the Readings Assigned for this Week on the Structure of the Early Medieval Community. |
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4 |
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Medieval Agriculture and Commercialization: A Revised Story |
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Lopez. Commercial Revolution, pp. 27-55.
Clark, Gregory. "The Economics of Exhaustion..."
Campbell, Bruce. "Economic Rent and the Intensification of English Agriculture, 1086-1350." |
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5 |
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Rise of the Commune and Revival of Trade: Counterpoint to Autarkic Agriculture |
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Documentary selections from Lopez, ed., Medieval Trade in the Mediterranean World, on "The Jewish Role in World Trade," "Milan in 1288," and "Reports from the Fairs of Champagne."
Lopez. Commercial Revolution, pp. 56-147. |
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6 |
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The Wider Medieval World: Vikings, Mongols, and Scaracens |
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Selections from Robert the Monk, "A Jerusalem History, c. 1110."
Selections from Jean de Joinville, "The Book of the Holy Words and Good Deeds of Our King, Saint Louis (1309)."
Selections from "Traveling to China."
Bovill, Edward. The Golden Trade of the Moors, pp. 67-131. |
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7 |
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Medieval Military Technology: The Art of the Seige |
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Video Presentation. |
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Assignment Due: First Paper (6 Pages). |
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8 |
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The Rlague and its Consequences |
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Harvey, Barbara. "Introduction: The Crisis of the Early Fourteenth Century". Selections from Henry Knighton, "Chronicle (1348)."
Domar, Evessy. "The Causes of Slavery or Serfdom."
Bailey, Mark. "Demographic Decline in Late Medieval England." |
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Assignment Due: Second Discussion Paper (1 Page).
Please Write a One Page Response to the Readings Assigned for this Week on the Economic Consequences of the Plague. |
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9 |
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Grand Theories About Medieval Development: Malthusians, Marxists and the Classical Economists |
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Wallerstein, Immanuel. "Three Paths of National Development in 16th Century Europe." In The Capitalist World Economy.
Brenner, Robert. "Agrarian Class Structure and Economic Development." Past and Present. |
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Methodology and Theories of Historical Demography |
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Wrigley, E. A., and Roger Schofield. The Population History of England. Tables from pp. 468 and 474.
Fogel, Robert. "Second Thoughts on the European Escape from Hunger: Famines, Chronic Malnutrition, and Mortality Rates."
Optional: Kremer, Michael. "Population Growth and Technological Change." |
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11 |
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Overseas Expansion of Europe |
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Pomeranz, Kenneth, and Steven Topik. The World that Trade Created. Chapters 1 & 2, pp. 3-76 and One Additional Chapter from Either Chapters 3, 4, or 5.
Columbus, Selections from the Diario. |
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Assignment Due: Second Paper (6 Pages). |
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Capitalist Organization of Economic Life: Proto-industry and the Globalization of Trade |
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Braudel, Fernand. The Wheels of Commerce, pp. 231-249.
Gregory King et al., "Tables of Estimates," Table 2; and Begin Reading Giles Milton, Nathaniel's Nutmeg.
Also Recommended are Two Chapters from Merchants, Companies and Trade: Europe and Asia in the Early Modern Era: Michel Morineau, "Eastern and Western Merchants from the 16th to the 18th Centuries," and Om Prakash, "The Portuguese and the Dutch in Asian Maritime Trade." |
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13 |
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Globalization of Trade and the Rise of Consumer Culture |
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Finish Nathaniel's Nutmeg. |
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14 |
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Measuring Welfare |
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Sen, Amartya, in Geoffrey Hawthorn, ed., The Standard of Living, pp. 1-38, and Comment by Keith Hart, pp. 70-93. |
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Assignment Due: Third Paper (6 Pages). |
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The Rise of North-Western Europe: Improvements in the Standard of Living |
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Mokyr, Joel. "Dear Labor, Cheap Labor, and the Industrial Revolution."
Horrell, Sara, Jane Humphries, and Hans-Joachim Voth. "Destined for Deprivation: Human Capital Formation and Intergenerational Poverty in Nineteenth-Century England." |
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16 |
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Review |
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