TY - JOUR
T1 - Neither a discipline nor a colony
T2 - Renaissance and re-imagination in economic history
AU - Ville, Simon
AU - Wright, Claire
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - After years in the wilderness, economic history is becoming fashionable once more. Intellectual shifts by its parent disciplines of history and economics, the failed experiment of economic history as a separate discipline, and the impact of major economic events have conspired to produce a renaissance in the field of study in the last decade and a half. We explain these changes and show that economic history derives its main strength from its role as an interdisciplinary research field that draws upon and integrates with its closest disciplines. We analyse the nature and recent progress of economic history in Australia and offer a prospective for its future role.
AB - After years in the wilderness, economic history is becoming fashionable once more. Intellectual shifts by its parent disciplines of history and economics, the failed experiment of economic history as a separate discipline, and the impact of major economic events have conspired to produce a renaissance in the field of study in the last decade and a half. We explain these changes and show that economic history derives its main strength from its role as an interdisciplinary research field that draws upon and integrates with its closest disciplines. We analyse the nature and recent progress of economic history in Australia and offer a prospective for its future role.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85019382145&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/1031461X.2017.1279197
DO - 10.1080/1031461X.2017.1279197
M3 - Article
SN - 1031-461X
VL - 48
SP - 152
EP - 168
JO - Australian Historical Studies
JF - Australian Historical Studies
IS - 2
ER -