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Course Credit
Course ECTS Credit
Teaching Language of Instruction İngilizce
Level of Course Bachelor's Degree, TYYÇ: Level 6, EQF-LLL: Level 6, QF-EHEA: First Cycle
Type of Course
Mode of Delivery Face-to-face
Does the course require compulsory or optional work experience?
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Purpose and Content

The aim of the course This course introduces students to the economic development of Europe from precapitalist times to the present.
Course Content This course traces the historical path which culminated in European economic hegemony, paying attention to key stages including mercantilism, Industrial Revolution, and capitalism.

Weekly Course Subjects

1Introductions
2Economic history: an overview
3The great divergence
4The Medieval period
5The discoveries
6The mercantilist economy
7The Industrial Revolution
8The long 19th century: trade and industrialization
9Midterm
10The demographic revolution
11World War I and the Great Depression
12World War II and reconstruction
13The European Union
14Final exam / review

Resources

1- Rondo E. Cameron (1993) A Concise Economic History of the World: From Paleolithic Times to the Present. Oxford University Press.

2- Robert C. Allen (2011) Global Economic History: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press.

3- Nicholas Crafts and Gianni Toniolo (2003) Economic growth in Europe since 1945. Cambridge University Press.

4- Gregory Clark (2007) A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World. Princeton University Press.

5- Ronald Findlay and Kevin H. O’Rourke (2009) Power and Plenty: Trade, War, and the World Economy in the Second Millennium. Princeton University Press.