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Professor John H. Munro (Professor Emeritus of Economics)
Department of Economics
University of Toronto
150 St. George Street
Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G7
CANADA

416-978-6713 (fax)

LECTURES FOR MY COURSES IN EUROPEAN ECONOMIC HISTORY COURSES, 2010 - 2011

Revised: 5 September 2011

Since and from the academic year 2008 - 2009, I have been offering only one full-year course, in European Economic History. each year, alternating my two courses listed below

This current year (2010-2011), I am offering only ECO 301Y: the Economic History of Later Medieval and Early Modern Europe, 1250 - 1750. Last year, I offered my other course, ECO 303Y: The Economic History of Modern Europe to 1914; but I am not offering it again this year -- though I may do so in the following academic year (2012-2013). Note that European -- and World -- Economic History from 1914 to the Present Day is offered in ECO 342Y, to complete our sequence.

The Lecture Notes for my ECO 301Y: the Economic History of Later Medieval and Early Modern Europe, 1250 - 1750: for 2011 - 2012.

The Lecture Notes for Eco 303Y1: for 2010- 2011 (for the previous academic year)

As indicated above, all of my undergraduate lectures, for both courses, have been or will be posted in two formats: PDF and MS-Word.

These postings will also be found in the Lecture Schedules at the end of the following sections for ECO 301Y1 and 303Y1, respectively.

Of the two formats, the PDF version provides the best and clearest text, but not one that you can edit; and I have so far not found an effective means of including graphs in a file small enough in bytes to be downloaded easily. It is much easier for me to publish the graphs, maps, etc. relevant for each lecture online as separate documents in MS-Word format.

The MS- Word versions of the lectures are converted from Word Perfect, but such conversions are not indeed always perfect. You are strongly advised to open the Word file first, and thus not to 'save to disk'. Save it to your hardrive once you have opened and edited the Word document.

My current reflections on On Line University Lectures. This document contains a transcript of an 'op ed' piece written by a first-year Ontario university student, and published in the Toronto Star, on 19 June 2008. The most interesting or provocative line is: 'The classes I found most relevant and most enjoyed had little or no reliance on the Internet for class notes.' That raises the interesting question: 'If what this student states is valid, should we university professors post our lectures online?' I respond to his points, in offering a justitication for my publishing my lectures online, in my format -- and only after the lectures have been given verbally in class. I would welcome feedback on this issue, especially from students who have taken my economic history courses (i.e., those who passed!!).

NOTICE: THE ONLINE LECTURE NOTES SHOULD BE USED ONLY AS SUPPLEMENTS TO THE ACTUAL LECTURES: NOT AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR THEM

Please read this notice with care, if you wish to pass this course, or rather at least pass the final examination.

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