Much modern (Le. post-17S0) economic history is concerned with
success in that a vast body of literature focuses its attention
upon the experience of industrialisation and economic growth or
upon relative differences in performance once the growth process is
underway. The explanations advanced frequently hinge on those
supply and demand factors, perceptible during the growth period
itself, which may have helped or hindered economic progress. The
problem which arises with this approach is whether those forces
attributed with having pulled a country forward were the same as
those which, in their absence, had held it back. For example, the
growth of'inter national demand may be seen as a major stimulus in
the economic development of a particular country, but its
effectiveness as a stimu lant may have been contingent upon the
prior removal of quite diffe rent obstacles to growth. In these
circumstances it would be quite wrong to attribute lack of earlier
development to the absence of international demand. Thus the study
of a period preceeding discer nible growth in a sector of the
economy may tell historians as much about the reasons for
subsequent growth as a study of the growth period itself. This was
my initial reason for choosing to research into the industrial
development in the Netherlands in the first half of the nineteenth
century: that it was an interval in economic history usually
interpreted as one of stagnation, of missed opportunities and even
of economic decline."
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