Links

Before starting

• EH.net (THE online reference)
• A very useful Time chart of European economic history from 1300 to 1750 by J. Munro

Economic history reviews

• The often mocked but never equaled, our master : La Revue des Annales Histoire Sciences Sociales (free 1960-2002, in French).

• Continuity and Change (a few articles for free)
• Business and Economic History On-Line (for free)
• Histoire et Sociétés Rurales (in French, a few downloadable articles, animated by Jean-Marc Moriceau)
• Australian Economic History Review
• Economic History Review
• European Review of Economic History
• Explorations in Economic History
• Journal of Economic History
• Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient
• Business History Review
• Entreprise and Society

Other reviews of interest

• American History Review
• Annales de Bretagne et des Pays de l’Ouest, Les (a few articles on line, in French)
• Bibliothèque de l’école des Chartres (free issues from 1840 to 2002)
• Comparative Studies in Society and History (a few articles for free)
• Diaspora: a Journal of Transnational Studies (a few aticles for free)
• DuBois Review: Social Sciences Reseach on Race (got to be American to care but then again why not, no free article)
• Electronic Journal of Oriental Studies
• Genèse: Sciences Sociales et Histoire (numerous issues for free)
• Historical Journal (a few articles for free, and here their top 20 best artices of all times for free)
• Journal of Global History (one issue for free)
• Journal of Urban History (a few articles for free)
• Journal of World History
• Revue Historique (in French, free 2001-2004).
• Textile History
• World history connected

Reviews by time period

Antiquity

Medieval

• The Heroic Age. A journal of early medieval Northwestern Europe
• Reti Medievali

Modern

• Revue d’Histoire Moderne et Contemporaine (archives from 2000, free from 2000 to 2004)
• Tiempos Modernos. Revista Electrónica de Historia Moderna

Where else to find articles and information?

One very very useful link page from the Tennessee Tech University.

• Ancient Economies (a website by Morris Silver)
• Caravane Maritime (Intercultural Contacts, Multiple Identities and Shifting Allegiances: the Caravane Maritime and its Protagonists in the Early Modern Mediterranean)
• Economy & Society in the Low Countries before 1850. A page from the University of Utrecht with plenty of working papers.

• Flow (the) of History, A dynamic and graphic approach of teaching history (very very good and very very useful if only to visualize a matter)

• Global Economic History Network (at the LSE)
• Global Euronet
• History in focus published by the Institute for historical research

• How well do fact travel. Working papers (LSE)
• Institute for Economic Research on Civilization (at the USC, see this page in particular, they have video cast!!!)
• International Economic History Congress 2006, Helsinki
• LSE’s Economic history seminars
• Recursos para a Historia Maritima 1200-1700 (in Portuguese)
• Micronesian seminars (half a dozen articles about the Spanish in the Pacific islands)

Find them by yourself (why should I do all the work?)

• IDEAS
• Repec
• Social Sciences Research Network

Many more links are to be found on pages I put online on another site here, here and here.

E-books

• The Online Books Page from the University of Pennsylvania
• All Empires’ e-books collection`
• A collection on recent Italian books about the medieval economy by the F. Dantini Foundation
• A collection of 18th- and early 19th-century books by the F. Dantini Foundation

See in particular

• Laiou Angiliki, ed. (2002) The Economic History of Byzantium from the Seventh through the Fifteenth Century, MIET/Dumbarton Oaks, Washington.
• Gazzini Marina (2002) Dare et habere. Il mondo di un mercante milanese del Quatrocento, Florence Reti Medievali/Firenze UP.

Softwares

• Bee Doc (for timelines)

Bibliographies

• Medieval economic thought
• A bibliography of textile 1100-1750 by J. Munro

Associations

• Association Française de Cliométrie (in French)
• Canadian Network for Economic History
• Cliometric society
• Economic history association
• Economic history society
• Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand
• European Historical Economics Society
• Fondazione Internazionale di Storia Economica “F. Dantini” (English version)
• Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute (at the USC)

• A list of Economic History Associations

History of economics

• Association Charles Gide pour l’Etude de la Pensée Economique (in French)
• Actuel Marx (in French)
• History of economics society
• History of Economic Thought Website (The)
• PHARE (in French, but numerous texts in English in the “Bibliothèque virtuelle”)
• McMaster University : Archives for the history of economic thought
• Società Italiana degli Storici dell’Economia (in Italian)

Social History

• International Institute of Social History (IISH)

Documents, archives and data bases

• Avalon project at the Yale School of Law (pre-18th century documents and 18th century documents)
• Economic history data desk. Economic history of Latin America, the United States and the New World 1500-1900
• Global Price and Income History Group
• The Internet Modern History Sourcebook (a endless source of knowledge)
• Material culture in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance by Karen Larsdatter, a great site to find pictures of well… the medieval and Renaissance material culture
• Mining heritage (the woodcut illustrations of De Re Metallica by Georgius Agricola)
• Medieval and Early Modern Database
• Will of Sir Thomas Gresham (1576)

In other languages

• Jardin aux sentiers qui bifurquent (in French, history of economics, essential)

• The Memoires of the Chevalier d’Arvieux, French ambassador in Aleppo during the 17th century (in French)
• The Encyclopedia of Diderot and d’Alembert (in French)
• Commerce dictionary by Jacques Savary, 16th century (in French)
• Late 16th century history books (in French)
• Personal diaries, 16-19th century (in French)

Methodology

• Using quantitative methods (in French)
• Using quantitative methods II (in French)

Education

• Lund University’s economic history department (Sweden)
• Berkeley’s EC 201a Economic History class (by Jan De Vries and Brad Delong)
• LSE’s economic history department (go beaver!)
• Economic history at Yale
• Institute of Netherlands history (economy and finance)
• Institutions et Dynamiques Historiques de l’Economie (Cachan)
• Institutions et Dynamiques Historiques de l’Economie (Sorbonne)
• UCLA’s center for economic history

For the bunch of lazy students who’d rather watch a video…

• Greg Clark on his book Farwell to Alms (UC Davis)
• Patrick O’Brien on England and France prior the Industrial Revolution
• Bruce Campbell on nature, the medieval economy and the crises of the 14th century

… and audio

• Laurence Fontaine on the “moral economy” of the Ancien Regime (French)
• Le Roy Ladurie on the climate (French)

Other websites

• Introduction history of technology (with a page about the Middle Ages, one on China, one on Muslim Spain) and very good links
• A page about the economy under the Qing dynasty at China knowledge.

Economic History on Wikipedia

• The economy of the Iroquois (!!!)

To finish with: a basket of hand-picked articles

• LANDES David: Why the Industrial Revolution did not occur in China?

• MANN Charles C.: 1491 by Charles C. Mann (on theAtlantic.com)
• SEBEK Barbara: Conceptualizing exchange in early modern England (and answer by S.C. Shershow)
• FUQAN Yang: The Ancient Tea and Horse road. “Silk road” of Southwest Asia (good website otherwise)

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