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'''John H. Clapham''' (1873-1946) was a British economic historian (full name John Harold Clapham). He is most notable for his monumental ''Economic History of Modern Britain'' (3 vols., 1926, 1932, 1938).<ref name=Book | '''John H. Clapham''' (1873-1946) was a British economic historian (full name John Harold Clapham)<ref name=SeeMore/>. He is most notable for his monumental ''Economic History of Modern Britain'' (3 vols., 1926, 1932, 1938).<ref name=Book/> Clapham was a student of [[Alfred Marshall]], who once remarked "Clapham has more analytic faculty than any thorough historian whom I have ever taught."<ref name=Marshall/> Unlike previous economic historians who had focused mostly on the political and legal frames within which economic activity was conducted, Clapham and his followers embraced a quantitative method. Because of this shift, quantitative method became afterward the preferred approach for economic history.<ref name=Fitzsimons/> | ||
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Wikipedia has [[Wikipedia:John Harold Clapham|slightly more information]] about John H. Clapham. | |||
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[https://archives.history.ac.uk/makinghistory/historians/clapham_john.html Clapham, Professor Sir John Harold (1873–1946)] on the IHR web archive | |||
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Marshall quoted in an unsigned article, ''Cambridge Historical Journal'' 7 (1946), 115. | |||
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Matthew A. Fitzsimons, "British Historiography of the Twentieth Century," in ''The Development of Historiography'', edited by Matthew A. Fitzsimons, Alfred G. Pundt, and Charles E. Nowell (Harrisburg, PA: The Stackpole Co., 1954), 256. | |||
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Revision as of 10:02, 25 July 2024
John H. Clapham (1873-1946) was a British economic historian (full name John Harold Clapham)[1]. He is most notable for his monumental Economic History of Modern Britain (3 vols., 1926, 1932, 1938).[2] Clapham was a student of Alfred Marshall, who once remarked "Clapham has more analytic faculty than any thorough historian whom I have ever taught."[3] Unlike previous economic historians who had focused mostly on the political and legal frames within which economic activity was conducted, Clapham and his followers embraced a quantitative method. Because of this shift, quantitative method became afterward the preferred approach for economic history.[4]
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- ↑ Wikipedia has slightly more information about John H. Clapham.
- ↑ Clapham, Professor Sir John Harold (1873–1946) on the IHR web archive
- ↑ Marshall quoted in an unsigned article, Cambridge Historical Journal 7 (1946), 115.
- ↑ Matthew A. Fitzsimons, "British Historiography of the Twentieth Century," in The Development of Historiography, edited by Matthew A. Fitzsimons, Alfred G. Pundt, and Charles E. Nowell (Harrisburg, PA: The Stackpole Co., 1954), 256.