Measurement, Myth, and Reality: Reflections on the Economic History of Nineteenth-Century Ontario

1986 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 71-86
Author(s):  
Douglas McCalla ◽  
Peter George
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Economic History ◽  
History Of

The economy

2016 ◽  
pp. 155-187
Author(s):  
Paul Huddie
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Government Contracts ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
History Of ◽  
Distinct Period

This chapter will show that the Russian conflict was a distinct period in Ireland’s economic history, being a catalyst for Ireland’s post-Famine agricultural recovery. It will be shown that this was caused by the increase in prices and demand which in turn encouraged farmers to alter the distribution of their tillage, export more livestock, hire more labourers and increase the latter’s wages. It will also include various (largely neglected) aspects of industry; showing Irish shipping companies’ comparable astuteness in relation to government contracts, which many entrepreneurs and merchants also eagerly sought, but also the inflexibility of the linen sector and the consequent problems experienced. Finally this chapter will show that the war was, much like the 1850s as a whole, a distinct period in the history of Irish taxation and Irish society’s relationship with its government in London in the nineteenth century and its relationship, or place within, the wider society of the United Kingdom.

The Emergence of a National Economy: An Economic History of Indonesia, 1800–2000. By Howard Dick, Vincent J. H. Houben, J. Thomas Lindblad, and Thee Kian Wie. Crows Nest NSW, Australia: Allen and Unwin, 2002. Pp. xvii, 286. $38.00.

2003 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 268-269 ◽  
Author(s):  
Siddarth Chandra
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
State Formation ◽  
Economic Integration ◽  
National Economy ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Easy Task ◽  
History Of ◽  
Fundamental Forces ◽  
Economic Regions

Written by four leading economic historians of Indonesia from three continents, this book is an excellent account of the emergence of the Indonesian economy in the twentieth century from what was a cluster of disparate economic regions at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Using an innovative and, in the context of Indonesia, highly appropriate theme, the authors identify three fundamental forces that shaped the emergence of the Indonesian national economy: successive waves of globalization (and dislocation), state formation, and economic integration. The book is admirably successful in fulfilling its claim, not an easy task given the volume of literature that had to be mastered and put into perspective in order to comprehensively describe this process.

Sharī‘a Court Registers and Land Tenure around Nineteenth-Century Damascus

1987 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-169
Author(s):  
James A. Reilly
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Land Tenure ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Historical Documents ◽  
Large Collection ◽  
Present Information ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University

The importance of sharī‘a law-court registers as sources for the social and economic history of Syria/Bilād al-Shām in the Ottoman period has been recognized for some time. A number of studies based on them have appeared, but the registers are so vast that scholars have in fact barely begun to investigate them. The Historical Documents Center (Markaz al-Wathā’iq al-Tārīkhīya) in Damascus holds over one thousand volumes. Additional originals exist in Israel/Palestine and a large collection of Syrian and Palestinian registers is available on microfilm at the University of Jordan (Amman). Although it is difficult to use the Lebanese registers nowadays (and those of Sidon may have been destroyed) a volume of the Tripoli registers from the seventeenth century has been published in facsimile by the Lebanese University. Dearth of material, therefore, is not a problem. One obstacle facing researchers, however, is unfamiliarity with the manner in which the registers present information. Persons whose native tongue is not Arabic have the additional problem of language to overcome. Therefore, an orientation to the registers is helpful, and this article is written with that purpose in mind.

The Creative Response in Economic History

1947 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph A. Schumpeter
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Economic Change ◽  
Economic Thought ◽  
History Of Economic Thought ◽  
Causal Factors ◽  
History Of

Economic historians and economic theorists can make an interesting and socially valuable journey together, if they will. It would be an investigation into the sadly neglected area of economic change.As anyone familiar with the history of economic thought will immediately recognize, practically all the economists of the nineteenth century and many of the twentieth have believed uncritically that all that is needed to explain a given historical development is to indicate conditioning or causal factors, such as an increase in population or the supply of capital. But this is sufficient only in the rarest of cases.

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