''The Economic History Review'' is a
peer-reviewed
Peer review is the evaluation of work by one or more people with similar competencies as the producers of the work ( peers). It functions as a form of self-regulation by qualified members of a profession within the relevant field. Peer revie ...
history journal published quarterly by
Wiley-Blackwell
Wiley-Blackwell is an international scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons. It was formed by the merger of John Wiley & Sons Global Scientific, Technical, and Medical business with Blackwell Publish ...
on behalf of the
Economic History Society. It was established in 1927 by
Eileen Power and is currently
edited by Sara Horrell, Jaime Reis and Patrick Wallis. Its first editors were
E. Lipson and
R. H. Tawney and other previous editors include
M. M. Postan
Sir Michael Moissey Postan FBA (24 September 189912 December 1981) was a British historian. He was also known as Munia Postan.
Biography
Postan was born to a Jewish family in Bendery, in the Bessarabia Governorate of the Russian Empire, and st ...
,
H. J. Habbakuk
Sir Hrothgar John Habakkuk (13 May 1915 – 3 November 2002) was a British economic historian.
Biography
Habakkuk was born in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, the son of Evan and Anne Habakkuk. He was named "Hrothgar" after Hroðgar in ''Beo ...
,
Max Hartwell
Ronald Max Hartwell (1921–2009) was an Australian-born liberal economic historian of the British Industrial Revolution.
Hartwell's first academic appointment was at University of New outh Wales (1950–56), where he held the chair of economic h ...
(1960–1968),
Christopher Dyer, Nicholas Crafts, John Hatcher, Richard Smith,
Jane Humphries, Steve Hindle and Phillipp Schofield.
Edition
The lead editors are John Turner, Giovanni Federico and
Tirthankar Roy and the editorial board counts 21 other editors including Jane Humphries and Debin Ma from the University of Oxford, Sara Horrell, Max-Stephan Schulze and Patrick Wallis from the London School of Economics.
The journal has published 75 volumes usually composed of 4 annual issues.
Ranking
It is considered one of the best economic history journals along with the
Journal of Economic History,
Explorations in Economic History and the
European Review of Economic History.
RePEc has ranked the journal 383rd out of 2982 economics journals. Its 2021 impact factor was 2.487.
See also
* ''
Agricultural History Review''
*
Economic history of the United Kingdom
The economic history of the United Kingdom relates the economic development in the British state from the absorption of Wales into the Kingdom of England after 1535 to the modern United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland of the early ...
Notable articles
*"
The Imperialism of Free Trade
"The Imperialism of Free Trade" is an academic article by John Gallagher and Ronald Robinson first published in ''The Economic History Review'' in 1953. The article was influential in the debate concerning the causes of British imperial expansi ...
" by
Ronald Robinson
Ronald "Robbie" Edward Robinson, FBA (3 September 1920 – 19 June 1999) was a distinguished historian of the British Empire who between 1971 and 1987 held the Beit Professorship of Commonwealth History at the University of Oxford.
After school ...
and
John Gallagher, published in the August 1953 edition.
External links
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References
Economic history journals
Publications established in 1927
Wiley-Blackwell academic journals
Quarterly journals
English-language journals
Academic journals associated with learned and professional societies
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