Robert C. Allen

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Bob Allen (2018)

Robert C. Allen (born January 10, 1947 in Salem, Massachusett ) is a historian and university professor with Canadian, US and British citizenship . He is Professor of Economic History at the University of Oxford and a Fellow Emeritus at Nuffield College . His research interests include a. the history of economic growth and inequality, technological change, public policy , as well as environmental and agricultural history .

academic career

Allen received his bachelor's degree from Carleton College , Minnesota in 1969 . He then moved to Harvard University , where he received his MA in 1972 and his Ph.D. in 1975. acquired. In 1973 he became an assistant professor, initially teaching at Hamilton College and from 1975 at the University of British Columbia . There he was full professor from 1985 to 2000. He has been at Oxford University since 2000, where he became Professor of Economic History in 2002.

He received several prizes for his work. a. Honored with the Ranki Prize of the Economic History Association for his books Enclosure and the Yeoman: The Agricultural Development of the South Midlands, 1450-1850 and Farm to Factory: A Re-interpretation of the Soviet Industrial Revolution . His 2009 monograph The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective was named Book of the Year by The Economist and Times Literary Supplement . In 2003, Allen was accepted into the British Academy .

Works (selection)

  • Enclosure and the Yeoman: The Agricultural Development of the South Midlands, 1450-1850 , Clarendon Press, Oxford 1992, ISBN 0-19-828296-6
  • Farm to Factory: A Reassessment of the Soviet Industrial Revolution , Princeton University Press, Princeton 2003, ISBN 978-0-691-14431-3
  • The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective , Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2009, ISBN 978-0-521-86827-3
  • Global Economic History: A Very Short Introduction , Oxford University Press, Oxford 2011, ISBN 978-0-19-959665-2
    • German: History of the world economy , translated by Reiner Buchegger, Reclam, Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-15-019171-2

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prof Bob Allen ( Memento of the original from June 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . University of Oxford website . Retrieved July 5, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk
  2. ↑ Member profile ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . British Academy website. Retrieved July 6, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.britac.ac.uk
personal data
SURNAME Allen, Robert C.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian-US-American-British economic, technical and environmental historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Salem, Massachusett