Tue May 15 09:09:08 EDT 2001
ABSTRACTS IN ECONOMIC HISTORY
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Name: Pat Hudson
Email: Hudsonp at cardiff.ac.uk
Institution: Cardiff University
Co-author: Edited by Pat Hudson on behalf of the Economic History
Society with the assistance of Rachel Bowen
Title: Living Economic and Social History
Internet Address of abstracted work: not available
By mail:
Pat Hudson
HISAR
Cardiff University
Cardiff CF1 3XU, UK
Language: English
Abstract:
Living Economic and Social History is a collection of more than 100
original essays written to mark the 75th anniversary of the Economic
History Society. Contributors were asked to write to the brief "What
economic history means to me" or "What economic and social history
means to me." Most authors discuss the nature of economic and social
history, past, present and future. Several trace their early
influences and relate changes in the discipline to their own career
path, memories and reflections. Many write of the key relationship
between history and economics, particularly what historical study can
bring to the discipline of economics. Others praise the broad church
nature of the subject, and of the Society, emphasising the place of
social history and the relationship between economic and social
history and other social sciences. Several contributors write, above
all, of the need for economic history to be accessible, appealing and
entertaining whilst addressing big moral questions.
Contributors include major names in the subject: W. W.Rostow, Charles
P. Kindleberger, Immanuel Wallerstein, E. J. Hobsbawm, Francois
Crouzet, Maurice Beresford, Stanley Engerman, Riitta Hjerppe, David
Landes, Paolo Malanima, Patrick O'Brien, Harold Perkin, Barry Supple,
Joan Thirsk, F. M. L. Thompson, Gabriel Tortella, Jan de Vries and
many more.
Like history itself, the essays can be read in many ways. They can be
analysed in relation to their theoretical and empirical content;
prosopographically, as a (possibly unique?) exercise in the
collective biography of a profession; as a series of statements about
the state of economic history and its links to other subjects. But,
like history, they can also be approached in another way. They can
simply be enjoyed, for what they are: stories, reflections and
recollections, critical, speculative, entertaining, personal and
human. There are Klondike spaces, Damascus roads, love affairs,
unintended consequences, paths, patterns, dialogues, lives and
livelihoods. We meet parachutists and truffle hunters, "big think"
and "little think" types. From Japan to Italy via Australia, France,
Spain, Finland, Germany, North America and Great Britain: an
intellectual odyssey, encounters with "poseurs," giants, explorers,
martyrs, saggar makers' bottom knockers and other ordinary folk.
Bibliography: Hudson, Pat, editor. "Living Economic and Social
History." Essay collection, Economic History Society. 2001.
Living economic and social history pp. xvi+480
Price £15 (£10 to Society members.isbn: 0-9540216-0-6
Available from
Maureen Galbraith
Department of Economic and Social History
University of glasgow
4, University Gardens
Glasgow
G12 8QQ
ehsocsec at arts.gla.ac.uk
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