EH111      Half Unit
The Internationalisation of Economic Growth

This information is for the 2025/26 session.

Course Convenor

Prof Chris Minns

Prof Neil Cummins

Availability

This course is available on the Erasmus Reciprocal Programme of Study and Exchange Programme for Students from University of California, Berkeley. This course is freely available as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit. It does not require permission. This course is freely available to General Course students. It does not require permission.

This course is available as an outside option to students on non-Economic History programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students.

Course content

The course examines the inter-relationships between the development of the international economy and the growth of national economies until the late nineteenth century. The course is designed to introduce students not only to a wide variety of topics and issues, but also to the wide variety of approaches used by historians. The course includes analyses of the original leading nation, Britain, and its replacement, the United States, as well as the catch-up of areas such as continental Europe, and the failure to catch-up of earlier well-placed areas such as Latin America. 

Teaching

10 hours of lectures and 10 hours of classes in the Autumn Term.

This course has a reading week in Week 6 of Autumn Term.

Formative assessment

Students are expected to write an annotated bibliography, a very short essay and a longer essay during the term.

 

Indicative reading

The following are particularly useful:

  • R C Allen, Global Economic History: A Very Short Introduction (2011).
  • K H O’Rourke and J G Williamson, Globalization and History: The Evolution of a Nineteenth-Century Atlantic Economy (1999).
  • G. Clark, A Farewell to Alms (2007)

(A complete reading list and class topics will be given out at the first meeting.)

Assessment

Exam (100%), duration: 120 Minutes in the January exam period


Key facts

Department: Economic History

Course Study Period: Autumn Term

Unit value: Half unit

FHEQ Level: Level 4

CEFR Level: Null

Total students 2024/25: 37

Average class size 2024/25: 6

Capped 2024/25: No
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Personal development skills

  • Self-management
  • Team working
  • Problem solving
  • Application of information skills
  • Communication
  • Application of numeracy skills
  • Specialist skills