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The Journal of European economic history, 2016-01, Vol.45 (1), p.11-18
Ort / Verlag
Rome: Bancaria Editrice S p A
Erscheinungsjahr
2016
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Quelle
EZB Electronic Journals Library
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Peter Mathias rose to fill some of the most prestigious and influential academic positions in the UK and was one of the leading economic historians of his generation in Europe. His academic career began shortly after the end of the Second World War when he won a scholarship to Jesus College, Oxford, where he studied economic history under the direction of Charles Wilson. His early work on the brewing industry and its contribution to British economic growth before and during the industrial revolutions addressed business as well as economic historians. During a long and successful career Mathias played a major role in shaping the study of modern economic history in the UK and on a much wider stage. Sceptical of over-arching and heavy handed theory irrespective of its origins, Mathias was not an uncritical empiricist and he always insisted that the task of economic history was to accommodate the infinity of variables that have influenced historical patterns of economic development.