Crucible of Revolutionary and Napoleonic Warfare and European Transitions to Modern Economic Growth

Patrick Karl O’Brien (D.Phil.Oxon.1966), FBA, FRHS, FRSA. His academic career as a lecturer, reader and Professor of Economic History and Director of the Institute of Historical Research has been spent at the universities of London and Oxford. He has published 5 and edited 16 books and more 100 articles in this field.

• List of Maps, Figures and TablesNotes on ContributorsPreface1 Exploring Connections between the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, State Formation and the Growth of European EconomiesPatrick Karl O’Brien2 Britain’s Wars with France 1793–1815 and Their Contribution to the Consolidation of Its Industrial Revolution 22Patrick Karl O’Brien3 In the Epicentre of the Storm? The Effects of the Revolution and Warfare on the French Economy, 1789–1815Loïc Charles, Guillaume Daudin and Silvia Marzagalli4 War, State Growth, and Germany’s Transition to Post-Malthusian GrowthUlrich Pfister5 Revolutionary Wars and Economic Change in the New State of the Netherlands, 1795–1815Marjolein ‘t Hart and Johan Joor6 Napoleon in Italy A Legacy of Institutional Reform?Mark Dincecco and Giovanni Federico7 The Napoleonic Wars A Watershed in Spanish HistoryLeandro Prados de la Escosura and Carlos Santiago-Caballero8 Portugal’s French Wars Cost, Loss, Missed Opportunities? 1793–1850Cristina Moreira, Jaime Reis and Rita Martins de Sousa9 The Long-Term Effects of the French and Napoleonic Warson the Global EconomyPeter M. SolarIndex 283