Balkan Economic History, 1550-1950

by Lampe, John R.; Jackson, Marvin R.

• ISBN13: 9780253303684
• ISBN10: 0253303680
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1982-04-01
• Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr

Summary

Western economic historians have traditionally concentrated on the success stories of major developed economies, while development economists have given most of their attnetion to the problems of the Third World. The authors of this pioneering work study a part of Europe neglected by both approaches. Modernizing patterns in Balkan economic history are traced from the sixteenth century (when the territory was shared by Ottoman and Habsburg empires), through the nineteenth century (when they emerged as independent states), to the end of World War II and its aftermath. Despite present differences in economic systems -- Greece's private market economy, Yugoslavia's planned market economy, and the centrally planned economies of Romania, Bulgaria, and Albania -- the authors find that shared origins and common subsequent experiences are ample justifications for treating the area as an economic unit. Balkan Economic History, 1550-1950 will be a major case study for development economists and will provide historians with the first analytical and statistical study to survey the entire region from the start of the early modern period.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xvii
Introduction Issues in Balkan Economic History	p. 1
New Markets in the Old Empires, from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Centuries	p. 15
the Economic Legacy of Ottoman Domination	p. 50
the Romanian Principalities Between Three Empires, 1711-1859	p. 80
the Serbian National Economy and Habsburg Hegemony, 1815-1878	p. 109
the Bulgarian Lands in a Declining Ottoman Economy	p. 133
Modernization in the New Nation-States, 1860-1914	p. 155
the Export Boom and Peasant Agriculture	p. 159
Financial Consequences of Political Independence	p. 202
Industrial Stirrings and the Sources of Growth	p. 237
Economic Development in the Imperial Borderlands to 1914	p. 278
War and Economic Development, 1912-1950 Marvin R. Jackson and John R. Lampe	p. 323
10 the Disruption of Prewar Patterns: Agriculture and Aggregate Growth	p. 329
the Disruption of Prewar Patterns: Finance and Industry	p. 376
Structural Change and the State Sector During the Depression	p. 434
the Economic Consequences of the Second World War	p. 520
Conclusion: Postwar Industrialization in Historical Perspective	p. 576
Selected Bibliography	p. 688
Index	p. 715
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