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Department of Economics
University of Toronto

BIBLIOGRAPHIES FOR ECO 303Y: 'B'-LIST TOPICS for 2010 - 2011: Short Format

Topics in the Economic History of Modern Europe, to 1914

Updated 13 August 2010

These bibliographies are in the short-format only. Please see the general notes about bibliographies for undergraduate economic history courses.

The following topics are on the 'B'-list for 2010 - 2011 and some of them will be transferred to the 'A'-list for the following year (if the course is given again), when most of this year's 'A'-list topics will, conversely, become 'B'-list topics. Each year a different set of 10 topics, 5 topics for each of the two terms, is chosen from the Master List of essay topics, though with some occasional duplications, of the most important topics.

The numbers for these topics are the Topic Numbers given in the Master List of Essay/Tutorial Topics for Eco.303Y1. You should refer to this Master List for a more detailed discussion of the debates about and thus the significance of each of these major topics, in European economic history.

Please note: The B-List Bibliographies have not been updated; only the A-List Bibliographies have been updated.

These bibliographies are presented in both PDF [default] and in MS Word. To retrieve them, click on the blue-highlighted topic number for the PDF version, and on the highlighted words 'Also in MS Word ', for that version. There are no statistical tables or any other appendices in the short-format of these bibliographies. Usually presented in just two or three pages, they contain the most important readings and some key questions to be considered.

FIRST TERM: FALL 2010: September - December 2010

• Topic no. 1 : The 'General Crisis of the Seventeenth Century', 1620 - 1740: Hobsbawm’s Marxist Thesis on the Origins of the Industrial Revolution [or: on the 'Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism'] . Also available in MS Word

• Topic no. 5 : The Causes of the British Industrial Revolution: Exogenous or Endogenous? . Also available in MS Word . Take care in choosing this topic, which is a favourite offered by illegal essay banks; and therefore we shall check every essay submitted on this topic very carefully for plagiarism (using the Google search engine).

• Topic no. 8 : The 'Proto-Industrialization' Debate: Rural Handicraft Industries in Early Modern Europe, and the Transition to Modern Urban Industrialziation . Also available in MS Word .

• Topic no. 9: Banking and the 'Industrial Revolution': A Comparison of the Role of Dutch and British Financial Institutions in Promoting Economic Growth, 1660 - 1850. Also available in MS Word .

• Topic no. 10: The 'Imperialism of Free Trade', 1840 - 1870: Were Free Trade, the Free Trade Movement, and Overseas Colonialism Economically and Philosophically Compatible? . Also available in MS Word

SECOND TERM, WINTER-SPRING 2011: 'B' LIST TOPICS: January - April 2011

• Topic no. 12: Impediments to Continental Industrialization: France, from the Revolution to World War I (1789-1914) . Also available in MS Word

• Topic no. 13 : Impediments to Continental Industrialization: Germany, 1815-1914. Also in MS Word .

• Topic no. 14 : Impediments to Continental Industrialization: Russia, 1815-1914. Also in MS Word.

• Topic no. 16(a) : Entrepreneurship and Business Organization in European Industrialization during the 19th Century: France and/or Germany . Also available in MS Word

• Topic no. 16(b) : Entrepreneurship and Business Organization in European Industrialization During the 19th Century: A Comparison of Germany and Great Britain, 1815 - 1914. Also in MS Word .

• Topic no. 18 : Problems of the British Economy, 1870 - 1914: The 'Industrial Retardation' Debate. Also in MS Word .

• Topic no. 20 : The 'New Imperialism; of 1870-1914, or the 'Era of Capitalist Imperialism': Foreign Trade, Capital Exports, and the Overseas Colonial Empires of Britain, France, and Germany, up to World War I . Also available in MS Word

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