War and Economic Development
Essays in memory of David Joslin

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1. War, taxation and the English economy in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries Edward Miller, Master of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge University
2. Taxation for war and peace in early-Tudor England G. R. Elton, Professor of English Constitutional History and Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge University
3. War and economic change: the economic costs of Dutch Revolt Geoffrey Parker, Lecturer in History, St. Andrews University
4. Swords and Ploughshares: the armed forces, medicine and public health in the late eighteenth century Peter Mathias, Chichele Professor of Economic History and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford University
5. War and industrialisation Phyllis Deane, Reader in Economic History and Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge University
6. The exigencies of war and the politics of taxation in the Netherlands 1795–1810 Simon Schama, Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge University
7. War and the failure of industrial mobilisation:
1899 and 1914 Clive Trebilcock, Lecturer in History and Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge University
8. War and economic development: government and the optical industry in Britain, 1914–18 Roy and Kay Mcleod, History and Social Studies of Science, Sussex University
9. War demand and industrial supply: the 'Dope Scandal', 1915–19 D. C. Coleman, Professor of Economic History and Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge University
10. Administrators and agriculture: aspects of German agricultural policy in the First World War Joe Lee, Professor of Modern History, University College, Cork
11. Social planning in war-time: some aspects of the Beveridge Report José Harris, Lecturer in Social Science and Administration, the London School of Economics.

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