Continuity in History and Other Essays

by Alexander Gerschenkron

This collection of essays by Alexander Gerschenkron, who has been called "the doyen of economic history in the United States," is a companion volume to the author's highly acclaimed Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective. The essays range over a wide variety of subjects, but the major theme, as in Gerschenkron's previous book, is the conditions of industrial development, particularly in regard to nineteenth-century Europe.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674168003
• ISBN13: 9780674168008
• Release Date: January 1968
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 560 Pages
• Weight: 3.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.3"