Industrialisation in Britain and France

Week 6. Demand - the internal market

Lecture

de Vries, Jan, "The Industrial Revolution and the Industrious Revolution," JEH, vol. 54 (1994), pp. 249-270.

Bogart, Dan, "Turnpike trusts and the transportation revolution in 18th century England," EEH, vol 42 (2005), pp. 479-508.

Further

Allen, Robert, "Class structure and inequality during the industrial revolution: lessons from England's social tables, 1688-1867," EHR vol. 72, no. 1 (Feb. 2019), pp. 88-125.

Daudin, Guillaume, "Domestic Trade and Market Size in Late-Eighteenth-Century France," JEH, vol. 70, no. 3 (2010), pp. 716-43.

de Vries, Jan. The Industrious Revolution: Consumer Behavior and the Household Economy, 1650 to the Present. Cambridge: CUP, 2008.

Fairchilds, C. "The Production and Marketing of Populuxe Goods in Eighteenth-Century Paris," Ch. 11 in J. Brewer and R. Porter (eds.), Consumption and the World of Goods: Understanding the Household Economy in Early Modern Europe (London: Routledge, 1994), pp. 228- 48.

Horrell, Sara, "Home Demand and British Industrialization," JEH, vol. 56, no. 3 (Sept. 1996), pp. 561-604.

Humphries, Jane, and Jacob Weisdorf, "Unreal Wages? Real Income and Economic Growth in England, 1260-1850," Economic Journal, vol. 129 (Oct. 2019), pp. 2867-87.

Lewis, Gwynne, "Proto-Industrialization in France," EHR, vol. 47, no. 1 (Feb. 1994), pp. 150-64.

Lindert, Peter, "Unequal Living Standards", Ch. 14 in R. Floud and D. McCloskey (eds.), The Economic History of Britain Since 1700, 2nd ed., vol. 1 (Cambridge: CUP, 1994), pp. 357-386.

Milanovic, Branko, "The level and distribution of income in mid-eighteenth century France, according to Francois Quesnay," Journal of the History of Economic Thought, vol. 37, no. 1 (March 2015), pp. 17-37.

Morrison, C. and W. Snyder, "The Income Inequality of France in Historical Perspective", EREH, vol. 4 (2000), pp. 59-83.

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.

--- , "The days they worked, the incomes they earned: new perspectives on work patterns and annual earnings in the French construction sector (1320-1850)," Rivista di Storia Economica, forthcoming (2021). Available from me if inaccessible.

Sewell, W., "The Empire of Fashion and the Rise of Capitalism in Eighteenth-Century France," Past and Present, no. 206 (Feb. 2010), pp. 81-120.

Sharp, Paul, and Jacob Weisdorf, "French revolution or industrial revolution? A note on the contrasting experiences of England and France up to 1800," Cliometrica, vol. 6 (2012), pp. 79-88.

On grain market integration:

Chevet, J.-M. and P. Saint-Amour, "L'intégration des marchés du blé en France au XIXe siècle", Histoire et Mesure, vol. 6 (1991), pp. 93-119.

Chilosi, D., T. Murphy, R. Studer, and A.C. Tuncer, "Europe's many integrations: Geography and grain markets, 1620-1913," EEH vol. 50 (2013), pp. 46-68.

Clark, G., "Markets and Economic Growth: The Grain Market of Medieval England", working paper, Dept. of Economics, University of California – Davis. Available on-line.

O Grada, C. and J.-M. Chevet, "Famine and Market in Ancien Régime France", JEH, vol. 62 (2002), pp. 706-733.

Persson, Gunnar. Grain Markets in Europe 1500-1900, Integration and Regulation. Cambridge: CUP, 1999.

Shiue, C. and W. Keller, "Markets in China and Europe on the Eve of the Industrial Revolution", American Economic Review, vol. 97 no. 4 (2007), pp. 1189-1216.