History and the Economic Past: An Account of the Rise and Decline of Economic History in Britain - Hardcover

D. C. Coleman

 
9780198283058: History and the Economic Past: An Account of the Rise and Decline of Economic History in Britain
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0198283059 ISBN 13: 9780198283058
Publisher: Clarendon Press, 1987

Synopsis

Is economic history a branch of economics or a part of history? The fusion of history and political economy attempted by the writers of the Scottish Enlightenment was destroyed when nineteenth-century English writers confined history to the political and constitutional past and attempted to make political economy an abstract science. This study of the rise and decline of economic history in Britain since the 18th century examines the emergence of economic history as an academic subject in opposition to both orthodox history and orthodox political economy. Discussing the 20th-century split between the "reformists" and the "neutralists," Coleman traces the remarkable boom in the subject after World War II and its decline in popularity in the last decade.

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Synopsis

Is economic history a branch of economics or a part of history? How should it be taught? This study of the rise and decline of economic history in Britain since the 18th century contributes to the debate about the intellectual and academic place of the subject today.

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Publisher
Clarendon Press
Publication date
1987
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0198283059
ISBN 13 
9780198283058
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
154