History and Economic Life (eBook, PDF)

A Student's Guide to Approaching Economic and Social History Sources
Redaktion: Christ, Georg; Rössner, Philipp R.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book 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. It is an essential resource for students undertaking source analysis within the field of Economic and Social History.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429015458
• Artikelnr.: 58724804

Autorenporträt

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').

Inhaltsangabe

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