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Prof. John H. Munro
Department of Economics
University of Toronto
Updated on: 3 April 2013
NOTICE: THE ONLINE LECTURE NOTES SHOULD BE USED AS SUPPLEMENTS TO THE ACTUAL LECTURES: NOT AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR THEM
Please read with care the web notice on this issue of online lectures; and see also my Note on Lecture Hours.
The following table provides a list of the lecture notes published online, on my Home Page, as indicated above, in both and the URL links to the published lectures: in both Portable Document Format [pdf], which requires Adobe Acrobat Reader software, and in Micro-Soft Word: in both the older .doc version and the newer .docx (Word 10) version. Each version is indicated in the date column, on the left, with pdf and MS-Word highlighted. Click on these to obtain the lecture in the desired format; and/or click on maps and graphs to obtain these MS-Word files, as well (if offered).
The prevous lectures (those given in 2008-09), except for those on the Netherlands, numbered 1b, have now been removed from this schedule and will be replaced by the revised versions only after they have been delivered in class; and only after being given in their complete form -- i.e., sometimes only after two weeks, when a lecture topic is split between two weeks. When I do post my lectures online, after these revisions, I will do in both PDF and MS-Word formats. The PDF version is alwasy superior (because my conversions from Word Perfect into Word are often far from being perfect; but the Word version allows you to edit them and insert comments. If you activate the URL for the PDF file or MS Word file for any particular lecture, before it has been given and then posted online, you will receive an error message: ERROR 404.
Please understand that I revise each lecture before I give it, and often after I present it, in the light of classroom questions or discussion (yes, even after 48 years of university teaching, 1964 to the present (1964-68 at UBC; from 1968, at Toronto). After the revised lecture has been delivered -- that evening or the next day -- the revised lecture, with the new (and correct) date will be posted. If the lecture notes are subsequently revised and reposted, the letter (R), in parentheses, will appear after the date or after the already highlighted MS-Word. You will, however, have to use the html version of this document, i.e., with the table below, to access those lectures, by so clicking on the highlighted titles. Such access is, of course, not available in pdf documents.
Most of the lectures sets pertain to just one weekly lecture, but a few of these numbered sets will cover two lecture dates. The dates below are those on which the actual lecture(s) was/were delivered. As noted above, the lecture notes for that specific date will be posted (revised) usually within a day (or so) of the lecture. You will also find, on this site, separate Word files containing the relevant graphs, maps, illustrations, for each of the lectures (similarly highlighted). There are no Power Point presentations for this course (as there are for ECO 301Y).
The MS-Word files containing graphs, maps, drawings, etc. have been retained online, permanently; and in that same column. But revised versions or new ones may be posted this coming year.
The lecture topics given below are taken from the Outline of the Lectures in ECO 303Y.
FIRST SEMESTER: SEPTEMBER TO NOVEMEBER 2012
| No. | Date of Lecture | Title of Lecture/Lecture Topics covered |
| 1 | 12 September 2012 | Introduction: on studying economic history:
Why study economic history (in general)? In a pdf file, also available as an MS-Word file. Why Study European Economic History?: Major Themes in my European Economic History courses,
I. THE MODERN INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION OF THE 18TH AND EARLY 19TH CENTURIES: the Role of the Netherlands in the
Modern Industrial Revolution: the Impact of the Dutch Economic Hegemony on Great Britain
For reading only: this introductory set of lectures will not be delivered in class
A. The Netherlands, the Dutch Economic Hegemony,
and the Modern Industrial Revolution in the 18th Century:
B. The Dutch Overseas Commercial Empire of the 17th and 18th Centuries
C. The Industrial Link: Dutch Shipbuilding and Commercial
Supremacy
D. Dutch Banking and Finance in the 17th and 18th Centuries
E. The Economic Decline of the Netherlands in the 18th Century and the Origins of
the British Industrial Revolution:
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| 2 | 12 September 2012 |
II. GREAT BRITAIN AS THE HOMELAND OF THE
MODERN INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, 1750 - 1815
A. The Industrial Revolution in Great Britain, c. 1760 - 1820: a Watershed in Human History? The Nature of Economic Changes in the Industrial Revolution era
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| 3 | 19 September 2012 |
II. GREAT BRITAIN AS THE HOMELAND OF THE
MODERN INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, 1750 - 1815
B. Science, Technology, Education, and Social Attitudes in the British Industrial Revolution C. The Government, State Finance, and Warfare, during the
Industrial Revolution, 1760 - 1815: independent reading only
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| 4 | 26 September 2012 | II. GREAT BRITAIN AS THE HOMELAND OF THE
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, 1750-1815
D. Population Growth and Expansion of the Market: the Demographic and Industrial Revolutions, 1680 - 1820
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| 5 | 3 October 2012 | II. GREAT BRITAIN AS THE HOMELAND OF THE
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, 1750-1815
E. The Expansion of the Market: Domestic Trade, 1750 - 1820
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| 6 | 10 & 17 October 2012 | II. GREAT BRITAIN AS THE HOMELAND OF THE
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, 1750-1815
G. The 'Agricultural Revolution', c.1660 - 1830 |
| 7 | 24 & 31 October 2012
The South Sea Bubble Crisis of 1720: power point lecture given in Nov. 2008 | II. GREAT BRITAIN AS THE HOMELAND OF THE
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, 1750-1815
H. Banking and Finance: Problems of Capital Formation during the Industrial Revolution Era |
| 8 | 7 November 2012 | II. GREAT BRITAIN AS THE HOMELAND OF THE
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, 1750-1815
I. The Revolution in Mechanical Power: the Steam Engine |
| 9 | 7 November 2012 | II. GREAT BRITAIN AS THE HOMELAND OF THE
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, 1750-1815
J. The Revolution in Metallurgy: Iron Production with Coke & Steam |
| 10 | 14 November 2012 | II. GREAT BRITAIN AS THE HOMELAND OF THE
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, 1750-1815
K. The Industrial Revolution in Consumer Goods: the Cotton Industry (and Other Textile Industries) |
| 11 | 21 November 2012 | III. GREAT BRITAIN AS THE UNCHALLENGED
INDUSTRIAL POWER, 1815 - 1873
A. Trends and Price Movements, 1815-1873 [only the introduction will be given orally as a lecture] |
| 12 | 21 November 2012
The Canadian Money Supply, Prices, GNP, Interest Rates, and Populations, 1955 - 2011 |
III. GREAT BRITAIN AS THE UNCHALLENGED
INDUSTRIAL POWER, 1815 - 1873
B. Banking, Finance, and Commercial Organization |
| 13 | 21 and 28 November 2012 | III. GREAT BRITAIN AS THE UNCHALLENGED
INDUSTRIAL POWER, 1815 - 1873
C. The 19th Century Transportation Revolutions: Railways and Steamships |
| 14 | 28 November 2012 | III. GREAT BRITAIN AS THE UNCHALLENGED
INDUSTRIAL POWER, 1815 - 1873
D. Great Britain and The Age of Free Trade: Finance, Foreign Trade, Capital Exports, and Imperialism in the 19th Century |
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SECOND SEMESTER: JANUARY TO APRIL 2013: |
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| 15 | 9 January 2013 | III. GREAT BRITAIN AS THE UNCHALLENGED
INDUSTRIAL POWER, 1815 - 1873
E. Agriculture in Great Britain: Innovation, Expansion, and Contraction, 1815 - 1914. |
| 16 | 16 January 2013 | III. GREAT BRITAIN AS THE UNCHALLENGED
INDUSTRIAL POWER, 1815 - 1873
F. The Maturation of the British Industrial Economy: for independent reading only. G. Changes in Living Standards and the Social Consequences of Urban Industrialization Era, 1780 - 1850: essay topic only H. The Revolution in Steel Making: Today's Lecture Topic
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| 17 | 16 January 2013 | IV. THE SPREAD OF MODERN INDUSTRIALIZATION IN
THE 19TH CENTURY: THE 'SLOW INDUSTRIALIZATION' OF FRANCE, 1789 - 1914
A. Barriers to Economic Development in France B. The Economic Consequences of the French Revolution C. Transportation in the 19th-Century French Economy |
| 18 | 16 & 23 January 2013 | IV. THE SPREAD OF MODERN INDUSTRIALIZATION IN
THE 19TH CENTURY: THE 'SLOW INDUSTRIALIZATION' OF FRANCE, 1789 - 1914
D. Agriculture in 19th Century France: Peasant Emancipation from Below, with the Revolutionary Land Reforms, 1789 - 1795. |
| 19 | 30 January 2013 | IV. THE SPREAD OF MODERN INDUSTRIALIZATION IN
THE 19TH CENTURY: THE 'SLOW INDUSTRIALIZATION' OF FRANCE, 1789 - 1914
E. French Business Organization and Banking during the 18th and 19th Centuries (to World War I) |
| 20 | 30 January 2013 | IV. THE SPREAD OF MODERN INDUSTRIALIZATION IN
THE 19TH CENTURY: THE 'SLOW INDUSTRIALIZATION' OF FRANCE, 1789 - 1914
F. French Industrialization in the 19th Century: 1789 - 1914 (to World War I): Industrial Growth or Industrial Stagnation - the Debate |
| 21 | 6 February 2013 | V. THE RAPID INDUSTRIALIZATION OF GERMANY,
1815 - 1914
A. Barriers to German Economic Development: for independent reading B. Market Unification: the German Zollverein and the Reich C. German Transportation: Railways and Steam Shipping |
| 22 | 6 February 2013
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V. THE RAPID INDUSTRIALIZATION OF GERMANY,
1815 - 1914
D. Germany: Peasant Emancipation and Agricultural
Modernization to 1914
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| 23 | 13 February 2013 | V. THE RAPID INDUSTRIALIZATION OF GERMANY,
1815 - 1914
E. German Banking and Commercial Organization
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20 February 2013 |
Reading Week: no lectures this week: 18 - 22 February 2013 | |
| 24 | 27 February 2013 | V. THE RAPID INDUSTRIALIZATION OF GERMANY,
1815 - 1914
F. German Industrialization, 1850 - 1914: Coal, Iron, Steel, Chemical and Electrical Industries; The German State, Industry, and Cartels |
| 25 | 6 & 13 March 2013 | VI: RUSSIA: THE BEGINNINGS OF INDUSTRIALIZATION
TO 1914
A. Barriers to Economic Growth B. Russian Agriculture: the Emancipation of the Serfs and Agrarian Changes, 1861 - 1914 |
| 26 | 13 March 2013 | VI: RUSSIA: THE BEGINNINGS OF INDUSTRIALIZATION
TO 1914
C. Russian Railways and Economic Development |
| 27 | 20 March 2013 | VI: RUSSIA: THE BEGINNINGS OF INDUSTRIALIZATION
TO 1914
D. Russian Banking and Finance in the 19th century
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| 28 | 20 March 2013 | VI: RUSSIA: THE BEGINNINGS OF INDUSTRIALIZATION
TO 1914
E. Russia: the Uneven Foundations of Modern Industrialization |
| 29 | 27 March 2013 | VII. PROBLEMS AND GROWTH IN THE BRITISH
ECONOMY, 1870 - 1914
A. Economic Trends, 1870 - 1914: the 'Great Depression' and the 'Industrial Retardation' Debates B. British Financial Institutions, Investment Banking, and Capital Exports, to 1914 |
| 30 | 3 April 2013
Global Temperatures, 1 - 2000 CE : Coal and Global Warming |
VII. PROBLEMS AND GROWTH IN THE BRITISH
ECONOMY, 1870 - 1914
C. The Varieties of Industrial Experience: Real Incomes and Continuing Strengths of the Old Industries D. The Varieties of Industrial Experience: the New Industries 1. The Consumer Goods Revolution: in Production and Marketing, 1870 - 1914 2. New Industries: "Missed Chances" in Electrical and Chemical Industries 3. New Industries: British Achievements in Cellulose Chemicals and other New Industries 4. Automobile Industry: pre-War Failure and Post War-Success E. Conclusions: The British Economy and the Standard of Living on the Eve of World War I |