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This book is the first quantitative description of Europe's
economic development at a regional level over the entire twentieth
century. Based on a new and comprehensive set of data, it brings
together a group of leading economic historians in order to
describe and analyze the development of European regions, both for
nation states and for Europe as a whole. This provides a new
transnational perspective on Europe's quantitative development,
offering for the first time a systematic long-run analysis of
national policies independent from the use of national statistical
units. The new transnational dimension of data allows for the
analysis of national policies in a more thorough way than ever
before. The book provides a comprehensive database at the level of
modern NUTS 2 regions for the period 1900-2010 in 10-year
intervals, and a panoramic view of economic development both below
and above the national level. It will be of great interest to
economic historians, economic geographers, development economists
and those with an interest in economic growth.
The book is the first quantitative description of Europe's economic
development at a regional level over the entire 20th century. Based
on a new and comprehensive set of data, this book brings together a
group of leading economic historians in order to describe and
analyze the development of European regions, both for nation states
and for Europe as a whole. This provides a new transnational
perspective on Europe's quantitative development, offering for the
first time a systematic long-run analysis of national policies
independently from the use of national statistical units. The
volume is distinctive in systematically going beyond the usual
collection of national histories connected by some accounts of
relations between nations. Instead, the book gives a panoramic view
of economic development both below and above the national level.
Second, the book aims at providing a comprehensive database at the
level of modern NUTS-II regions for the period 1900-2010 in
ten-year intervals. This will be invaluable for economic
historians, economic geographers, development economists and those
with an interest in economic growth. Finally, the book shows that
the new transnational dimension of data allows for the analysis of
national policies in a more thorough way than was ever possible
before. The book therefore will be unrivalled and indispensable
background reading for economists, historians and geographers
interested in comparative economic development in the long-run.
This edited volume represents the latest research on intersections
of war, state formation, and political economy, i.e., how conflicts
have affected short- and long-run development of economies and the
formation (or destruction) of states and their political economies.
The contributors come from different fields of social and human
sciencies, all featuring an interdisciplinary approach to the study
of societal development. The types of big issues analyzed in this
volume include the formation of European and non-European states in
the early modern and modern period, the emergence of various forms
of states and eventually modern democracies with extensive welfare
states, the violent upheavals that influenced these processes, the
persistence of dictatorships and non-democratic forms of
government, and the arrival of total war and its consequences,
especially in the context of twentieth-century world wars. One of
the key themes is the dichotomy between democracies and
dictatorships; namely, what were the origins of their emergence and
evolution, why did some revolutions succeed and other fail, and why
did democracies, on the whole, emerge victorious in the
twentieth-century age of total wars? The contributions in this book
are written with academic and non-academic audiences in mind, and
both will find the broad themes discussed in this volume intuitive
and useful.
This edited volume represents the latest research on intersections
of war, state formation, and political economy, i.e., how conflicts
have affected short- and long-run development of economies and the
formation (or destruction) of states and their political economies.
The contributors come from different fields of social and human
sciencies, all featuring an interdisciplinary approach to the study
of societal development. The types of big issues analyzed in this
volume include the formation of European and non-European states in
the early modern and modern period, the emergence of various forms
of states and eventually modern democracies with extensive welfare
states, the violent upheavals that influenced these processes, the
persistence of dictatorships and non-democratic forms of
government, and the arrival of total war and its consequences,
especially in the context of twentieth-century world wars. One of
the key themes is the dichotomy between democracies and
dictatorships; namely, what were the origins of their emergence and
evolution, why did some revolutions succeed and other fail, and why
did democracies, on the whole, emerge victorious in the
twentieth-century age of total wars? The contributions in this book
are written with academic and non-academic audiences in mind, and
both will find the broad themes discussed in this volume intuitive
and useful.
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