Economic History

6 ECTS / Semester / Portuguese
  1. ​Introduction: What is economic history?
  2. The European economy in the eighteenth century
  3. Why was the British Industrial Revolution first (1760-1830)?
  4. Patterns of European industrialization (1830-1914)
  5. Growth and backwardness in the European periphery: Portugal (1807-1914)
  6. Lessons from nineteenth century globalization (1870-1914)
  7. Europe and the world: the Great Divergence (1500-1914)
  8. The economic consequences of World War I (1914-1929)
  9. What we have learned from the Great Depression (1929-1932)
  10. The Portuguese economy in the twentieth century (1914-2010)
  11. Phases of European economic integration (1945-2010)
  12. Summary