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

The following topics are on the "B"-list for 1999-2000; and some of them will be transferred to the "A"-list for the next year in which the course is given (2001-02), while most of this year's "A"-list topics will become "B"-list topics in the following year. 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.

• Topic no. 5: The 'Great Depression' of the Late Middle Ages: Myth or Reality? Stagnation or Growth in the Late-Medieval Economy?
  
  
• Topic no. 8: The Dynamics of Change in Late-Medieval Industry, ca. 1250 - ca. 1460: Textile Manufacturing in Western Europe (Italy, the Low Countries, France, and England)
  
  
• Topic no. 9: Guilds and Urban Governments in the Late-Medieval European Economy, 1200 - 1500: Merchant and industrial-craft guilds and other (male-dominated) urban corporations

• Topic no. 11: The Inauguration of the Age of Overseas Expansion: Maritime Explorations and the Establishment of the Portuguese and Spanish Overseas Empires, c. 1450 - 1600
  
  
• Topic no. 12: The Rise and Expansion of The Dutch Commercial Empire: ca. 1360 - ca. 1650
  
  
• Topic no. 15: The ‘Rise of Capitalism’ and The Protestant Reformations: the Weber-Tawney Theses on the ‘Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism,’ 16th - 18th Centuries
  
  
• Topic no. 17: The ‘Rise of the Gentry’ Debate: On the Origins of Modern ‘Agrarian Capitalism’ in Tudor-Stuart England
  
  
• Topic no. 18: On the Industrial ‘Origins’ of the Industrial Revolution: The Nef Thesis on Industrial Change in Tudor-Stuart England, ca. 1540 - 1640
  
  
• Topic no. 19: Social and Agrarian Changes in Early-Modern France: the Decline of Feudalism, Rural ‘Embourgeoisement’ and the Seigneurial Reaction, 1480 to 1789
  
  
• Topic no. 20: The 'General Crisis of the Seventeenth Century,’ 1620-1740: the Hobsbawm Thesis on the Transition from 'Feudalism to Capitalism'
  
  
• Topic no. 24: Mercantilism: Money, Economic Nationalism, and the State in Early-Modern Europe
  
  
• Topic no. 25: The Economic Decline of the Netherlands in the Eighteenth Century: Absolute or Relative?

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