The unit studies selected topics in economic history, with an emphasis on the history of economic development over the last 300 years since the advent of capitalism. Topics may include the commercial revolution and expansion of international trade in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; the role of the slave trade; the industrial revolution; the evolution of international economic relations in the 19th and 20th centuries; the Great Depression; post-World War II recovery and the growth 'Golden Age' of 1950-1973.
Classes
1x3hr seminar/week
Assessment
4x 1500 Assignments (35%), 1x 1.5hr (1500wd equivalent) Mid-semester test (30%), 1x 1.5hr (1500wd equivalent) Final exam (35%)
Semester 1
05 Mar 2018