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

Lecture

Crafts, Nicholas, "Understanding productivity growth in the industrial revolution," EHR, vol. 74, no. 2 (2021), pp. 309-38.

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.

In more depth

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.

Crafts, N. F. R. and P. Woltjer, "Growth Accounting in Economic History: Findings, Lessons and New Directions," Journal of Economic Surveys, vol. 35, no. 3 (2021), pp. 670-696.

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

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.

Litvine, A. and L. Shaw-Taylor, "Why wasn't France first? The Industrial Revolution in England and France: New data and further thoughts," Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure working paper 40, available here.

Litvine, A., "French occupational structure, industrialisation and economic growth in France, 1695 to the present," Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure working paper 35, available here. N.B. request that the paper not be quoted or circulated.

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. and A. Nuvolari, "L'Histoire Immobile? A Reappraisal of French Economic Growth Using the Demand-Side Approach," EREH, vol. 25 (2021), pp. 405-428.

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.

Wallis, P., J. Coulson, and D. Chilosi, "Structural Change and Economic Growth in the British Economy before the Industrial Revolution, 1500–1800," JEH vol.78, no. 3 (Sept. 2018), pp. 862-903.