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Cambridge Lectures in Economic History - JPB044

Title:	Cambridge Lectures in Economic History
Guaranteed by:	Institute of Economic Studies (23-IES)
Faculty:	Faculty of Social Sciences
Actual:	from 2023 to 2023
Semester:	summer
E-Credits:	5
Examination process:	summer s.:
Hours per week, examination:	summer s.:1/1, Ex [HT]
Capacity:	unknown / unknown (20)
Min. number of students:	unlimited
4EU+:	no
Virtual mobility / capacity:	no
State of the course:	not taught
Language:	English
Teaching methods:	full-time
Teaching methods:	full-time
Is provided by:	JEB143
Note:	course can be enrolled in outside the study plan enabled for web enrollment priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan

Guarantor:	prof. doc. PhDr. Mgr. Ing. Antonie Doležalová, Ph.D.
Pre-requisite :	JPB332

Examination dates Schedule Noticeboard

Annotation -

Last update: prof. doc. PhDr. Mgr. Ing. Antonie Doležalová, Ph.D. (15.02.2023)

This unique course is based on cooperation between IES FSS and Robinson College, University of Cambridge. It offers both the inquiry into the newest thematic and methodological development of economic and social history and the teaching practice as is used at the University of Cambridge.
The course topic for this year: Writing (Understanding) the history of changing times in changing times
The topics of individual lectures as well as the list of compulsory reading will be announced in advance during the introductory lecture.
Thanks to the Cambridge Lectures, Antonie Doležalová was awarded the Arnost of Pardubice Prize 2019 for the most innovative teacher at the Charles University.

Descriptors -

Last update: prof. doc. PhDr. Mgr. Ing. Antonie Doležalová, Ph.D. (16.02.2022)

Schedule of Classes:TBA

Course completion requirements -

Last update: prof. doc. PhDr. Mgr. Ing. Antonie Doležalová, Ph.D. (15.02.2023)

Grading policy:

A…...100-91

B…... 90-81

C…... 80-71

D…... 70-61

E….... 60-51

F… .....50 - 0

Total grade will depend on:

1) Activity and engagement in discussion during the lectures and seminars. The discussion will be based on compulsory reading (40 points max)

2) One paper, 18000 characters (10 pages) max., 60 points max

The minimal amount of points required to pass the subject: 51

A minimal number of 51 points to successfully pass the subject is divided as follows:

20 points activity in lectures and seminars

31 points papers

Final essay will be evaluated by points as follows:

A (60-51) very well written, highly structured and focused, extensive range of sources used and applied, comprehensive understanding of key facts, an ability to formulate own ideas in the analysis, critical judgment

B (50-41) clear style, well structured and focused, a full range of relevant sources, good understanding of key facts, critical evaluation in the discussion

C (40-31 descriptive style, coherently structured and focused, minimal but relevant literature, a partial understanding of the key facts, evaluative sought in some areas

D (30-21) weak descriptive style, logically structured and focused, inadequate literature, general knowledge demonstrated, poor evaluation

E (20-10) partially disorganized style, poorly structured and not focused, some knowledge but the insufficient reference to the literature, some unclear sections, missing evaluation

F (10-0) poorly and unclearly written, little knowledge, poor understanding the topic

Literature -

Last update: PhDr. Petr Bednařík, Ph.D. (06.06.2020)

Core Reading

Berg, M., and Hudson, P., ‘Rehabilitating the industrial revolution’, Economic History Review XLV (1992), pp. 42-50.

Crafts N., and Harley, C.K., ‘Output growth and British industrialization: a restatement of the Crafts-Harley view’, Economic History Review, XLV (1992).

Shaw-Taylor, L., and Wrigley, E. A., 'Occupational Structure and Population Change', in R. Floud, J. Humphries and P. Johnson, eds., The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain: Volume I, 1700–1870 (Cambridge, 2014), pp. 53–88

Further Reading

Kitson, P. M., Shaw-Taylor, L., Wrigley, E. A., Davies, R. S., Newton, G., and Satchell, A. E., 'The Creation of a 'Census' of Adult Male Employment for England and Wales for 1817', Cambridge Working Papers in Economic and Social History, no. 4, 2012&2013

Keibek, S., and Shaw-Taylor, L., 'Early Modern Rural By-employments: A Re-examination of the Probate Inventory Evidence', Agricultural History Review, 61 (2013), pp. 244–81.

Keibek, S., 'Using Probate Data to Determine Historical Male Occupational Structures', Cambridge Working Papers in Economic and Social History, no. 26, 2017.

Requirements to the exam -

Last update: prof. doc. PhDr. Mgr. Ing. Antonie Doležalová, Ph.D. (16.02.2021)

First essay assignment:

Second essay assignment:

Syllabus -

Last update: prof. doc. PhDr. Mgr. Ing. Antonie Doležalová, Ph.D. (22.02.2023)

Schedule of Classes:

1. block: Introduction, Methodological Inquiry, Final Essay Assignment, Antonie Doležalová, IES FSS, Charles University, Robinson College, University of Cambridge
Th 02/16/2023 11:00- 12:20 Room 105
Th 02/23/2023. 11:00-12:20 (online)
Th 03/02/2023 11:00- 12:20 Room 105 (in person)
03/30 2 x Lecture/seminar room 206 (In person) 9:30-10:50 + room 105 (in person) 11:00-12:20
Dr. Howlett is open to giving you an individual consultation during that week.
2. block: Dr Jana Howlett, Jesus College, Emeritus Fellow, Director of Studies in History & Modern Languages, University of Cambridge
Teaching hours divided into lectures and seminars
Th 03/16/2023 Lecture/seminar 11:00-12:20. (Online)
Th 03/30/2023 Lecture/seminar 9:30-10:50 Room 206 (in person)
Th 03/30/2023 Lecture/seminar 11:00-12:20 Room 105 (in person)
- 3. block: individual work (A.Doležalová)
- Th 04/12/2023 11:00-12:20 (online)
- Th 04/19/2023 11:00-12:20. (online)
- Th 04/26/2023. 11:00-12:20 (online)
- Final essay submission 04/30/2023
- 4. block: Final essays discussion (A.Doležalová & J.Howlett)
- Th 05/04/2023 11:00- 12:20 Room 105
- Th 05/11/2023 11:00- 12:20 Room 105