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Economic History at the IISH

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Topic: Economic History

Sort Desciption: Economic History. at the IISH. IISG Brochure NEHA 2 24-05-2006 10:15 Pagina 1 ..... in the world in the field of economic history. ...

Content Inside: Economic History at the IISH IISG Brochure NEHA 2 24-05-2006 10:15 Pagina 1 1. Economic History (and Social History) Front cover: Indonesian metalworker standing next to a cane leaf-crushing machine 1925. The Surabaya plant of the Dutch machine construction firm Braat built a series of six of these machines for the Poerwoasrie sugar mill. From a photo album about the Surabaya plant offered to the retiring chairman of the supervisory board J.H. Lagers ca.1927. The firm employed 74 European and 1200 Indonesian employees on Java and specialised in machines for the sugar industry but also built trains wagons and armoured cars for the Royal Netherlands-Indies Army. Price list of spices and sugars 21 April 1667. Unknown publisher prices filled in by hand. Lists of commodity prices were printed from the sixteenth century onward first in Italy later also in Central and Northern Europe. The oldest printed list from Amsterdam dates back to 1585. On it prices for different goods were collected. Amsterdam brokers published regular commodity price currents for the use of merchants from 1609. Later price currents for exchange rates and stocks were published in the same way. Given these resemblances it is logical that the IISH after incorporating the NEHA (Netherlands Economic History Archive) has now developed its own economic history programme focused on global economic history. This is the counterpart to the Global Labour History programme which has become pivotal in research conducted by the IISH . Global economic history is a rapidly growing sub-discipline and has received a substantial boost from recent work on The Great Divergence (Ken Pomeranz). It basically explores two questions which are arguably the two main questions in economics and economic history. IISG Brochure NEHA 2 24-05-2006 10:15 Pagina 2 economic growth processes. The more specialists an economy integrates within one viable framework of cooperation the more knowledge it will be able ...

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