History and Economic Life :  A Student's Guide to Approaching Economic and Social History Sources / 
edited by Georg Christ and Philipp R. Rössner. 
 - 1 online resource (246 pages) 
 - Routledge Guides to Using Historical Sources Ser. .
 - Routledge Guides to Using Historical Sources Ser. .
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<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- List of contributors -- Foreword -- Introduction: Why and how do we read economic history sources? -- PART 1: Toolbox -- 1. The study of economic history - methods and sources -- 2. What do we analyse - typology of sources -- 3. How to read economic history sources quantitatively -- 4. How to read economic sources qualitatively - source analysis -- PART 2: Case Studies -- 5. Origins of capitalism I: Transcultural trade or pepper travelling from India to England -- 6. Origins of capitalism II: Medieval urban property markets: thirteenth-century Coventry revisited -- 7. Counting cows and coins: Monitoring the economy through port records and trade statistics in the early modern period -- 8. Historical account books as a source for quantitative history -- 9. History through objects: The example of coins -- 10. The news and numbers: A guide to using digitised newspapers -- 11. Monsieur le Directeur: Letters and 'ordinary' investors in modern France -- Index. 
<br/><br/> "This book offers students a wide-ranging introduction to both quantitative and qualitative approaches to interpreting economic history sources from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century. Divided into two parts, it both equips students with a toolbox to approach economic history sources and includes case studies that examine how economic historians use such sources. Introducing sources often avoided in culturally-minded history or statistically minded economic history courses respectively and advocating a combined quantitative and qualitative approach, it is an essential resource for students undertaking source analysis within the field"-- |c Provided by publisher. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780429015441 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Economic history--Methodology<br/>Social history--Methodology.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HC26  / .H578 2020 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>330.9