Readings, Week 1: Industrial revolution, industrialisation, or economic growth?

Lecture

A'Hearn, Brian, "Britain's Industrial Revolution in Comparative Perspective," CEHMB (2014 ed., vol. 1), pp. 1-52.

Ridolfi, Leonardo, "Six Centuries of Real Wages in France from Louis IX to Napoleon III: 1250-1860," JEH, vol. 79, no. 3 (Sept. 2019), pp. 589-627.

Allen, R., "The Great Divergence in European Wages and Prices from the Middle Ages to the First World War," EEH, vol. 38 (2001), pp. 411-447.

Fouquet, R. and S. Broadberry, "Seven Centuries of European Economic Growth and Decline," Journal of Economic Perspectives, vol. 29 no. 4 (Fall 2015), pp. 227-44.

Further

Allen, Robert, "Britain's Economic Ascendancy in a European Context," Ch. 1 in Exceptionalism and Industrialisation: Britain and its European Rivals, 1688-1815", Leandro Prados de la Escosura, ed. (Cambridge: CUP, 2004), pp. 15-34.

Crafts, N. F. R., "Economic Growth in France and Britain, 1830-1910: A Review of the Evidence," JEH, vol. 44 (1984), pp. 49-67.

Mokyr, Joel, "Accounting for the Industrial Revolution," CEHMB, Vol. 1, Ch. 1, pp. 1-27.

Berg, Maxine and Pat Hudson, "Rehabilitating the Industrial Revolution," EHR, vol. 45 (1992), pp. 24-50.

Crafts, N. F. R., "Patterns of Development in 19th century Europe," Oxford Economic Papers, vol. 36 (1984), pp. 438-58.

Crafts, N.F.R. and Harley, C.K., "Output Growth in the British Industrial Revolution: A Restatement of the Crafts-Harley View," EHR, vol. 45 (1992), pp. 703-730.

Crouzet, F., "The Historiography of French Economic Growth in the 19th Century," EHR, vol. 56 (2003), pp. 215-242.

Grantham, George, "The French Cliometric Revolution," EREH, 1 (1997), pp. 353-405. A useful overview of recent quantitative work.

Heywood, Colin. The Development of the French Economy.

Hoffman, P. and J-L Rosenthal, "New Work in French Economic History," French Historical Studies, vol. 23, no. 3 (summer 2000), pp. 439-453. A useful overview by two authorities.

Kemp, T., "French Economic Development – A Paradox?" Ch. 3 in T. Kemp, Industrialisation in 19th Century Europe (Harlow: Longman, 1969), pp. 52-80.

O'Brien and Keyder, Economic Growth in Britain and France. Chs. 1-3, pp. 15-82.

Parker, D. Class and State in Ancien Regime France. London: Routledge, 1996. Ch. 7 "France, England and the Capitalist Road" offers an overview comparison for the pre-1789 period. See also Ch. 2 "The French Economy: a Case of Arrested Development".

Ridolfi, L. The French economy in the longue duree. A study on real wages, working days and economic performance from Louis IX to the Revolution (1250-1789), PhD dissertation, IMT School for Advanced Studies (Lucca), 2016.

Roehl, R., "French Industrialisation: A Reconsideration," EEH, vol. 13 (1976), pp. 233-81. 

Stephenson, Judy, " 'Real' wages? Contractors, workers and pay in London building trades, 1650-1800," EHR, vol. 71, no. 1 (2018), pp. 106-32.