Sydney Checkland
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British economic historian
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Sydney Checkland's Degrees
- PhD Economic History University of Manchester
- Masters Economic History University of Manchester
- Bachelors Economics University of Manchester
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Sydney George Checkland FRSE was a British-Canadian economic historian. Life Born in Ottawa, Ontario, Checkland worked at the Bank of Nova Scotia, then the Ottawa Sanitary Laundry Company, while he gained associate membership of the Canadian Bankers' Association. In 1938, he moved to England to study at the University of Birmingham, and in his final year served as President of the Guild of Students at the university. In 1941, he was elected as President of the National Union of Students, serving for only one year before becoming President of the International Council of Students.
Sydney Checkland's Published Works
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Published Works
- The Origins of Modern English Society, 1780-1880. (1969) (184)
- Scottish Banking: A History, 1695-1973. (1976) (126)
- William Beveridge. A Biography. (1977) (103)
- The Urban Question: A Marxist Approach (1978) (101)
- The Poor Law Report of 1834 (1974) (76)
- British Society and the French Wars, 1793-1815. (1980) (54)
- The Rise of Industrial Society in England, 1815-1885 (1964) (51)
- The upas tree Glasgow 1875-1975 : - and after 1975-1980 (1981) (46)
- Afterthoughts on Material Civilisation and Capitalism. (1978) (40)
- THE MIND OF THE CITY 1870–1914 (1957) (36)
- The Gladstones: a family biography, 1764-1851 (1971) (29)
- Political Economists and the English Poor Laws. (1979) (28)
- On the History and Method of Economics: Selected Essays. (1957) (25)
- The Upas Tree: Glasgow, 1875-1975. A Study in Growth and Contraction. (1977) (23)
- The Rise of the Western World (1975) (20)
- The upas tree (1976) (19)
- The Propagation of Ricardian Economics in England (1949) (18)
- The Birmingham Economists, 1815‐1850 (1948) (18)
- Industry and ethos: Scotland, 1832-1914 (1984) (18)
- Wesley Clair Mitchell: The Economic Scientist. (1953) (17)
- The Advent of Academic Economics in England (1951) (17)
- FINANCE FOR THE WEST INDIES, 1780–1815 (1958) (15)
- The mines of Tharsis : Roman, French and British enterprise in Spain (1968) (14)
- British public policy, 1776-1939 (1983) (14)
- Studies in Elizabethan Foreign Trade (1960) (13)
- American Versus West Indian Traders in Liverpool, 1793–1815 (1958) (13)
- Enterprise and History: Essays in Honour of Charles Wilson. (1985) (12)
- Unilever, 1945-1965: Challenge and Response in the Post-War Industrial Revolution. (1969) (12)
- The British Industrial City as History: the Glasgow Case (1964) (12)
- Dictionary of Scottish business biography, 1860-1960 (1986) (10)
- Economic Opinion in England as Jevons Found It (1951) (10)
- John Gladstone As Trader And Planter (1954) (9)
- BANKING HISTORY and ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: SEVEN SYSTEMS (1969) (9)
- British Public Policy 1776-1939: An Economic, Social and Political Perspective (1984) (8)
- ECONOMIC ATTITUDES IN LIVERPOOL, 1793–1807 (1952) (8)
- Money, Mania and Markets (1981) (7)
- Housing Policy: The Formative Years - A Review Article (1975) (7)
- The Mines of Tharsis. Roman, French and British Enterprise in Spain. (1968) (7)
- The Economic Development of Modern Scotland, 1950-1980. (1985) (5)
- The Fontana Economic History of Europe. Volume 3, The Industrial Revolution; volume 4, the Emergence of Industrial Societies (1974) (5)
- THEORIES OF ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EVOLUTION: THE ROSTOW CHALLENGE (1959) (4)
- An English Merchant House in China After 1842 (1953) (4)
- Cobden and Bright: A Victorian Political Partnership. (1969) (4)
- Courtaulds. An Economic and Social History. Vol. II. Rayon. (1970) (3)
- The urban historian and the political will (1980) (3)
- The Entrepreneur and the Social Order: The Japan Business History Society Conference, 6–9 January 1975 (1975) (3)
- David Hume. Writings on Economics. (1956) (3)
- The Lancashire Bill System and Its Liverpool Protagonists, 1810-1827 (1954) (3)
- British Public Policy, 1776-1939: An Economic, Social, and Political Perspective. (1984) (3)
- GROWTH AND PROGRESS: THE NINETEENTH CENTURY VIEW IN BRITAIN (1959) (3)
- Industrial Britain under the Regency 1814-18 : the diaries of Escher, Bodmer, May and de Gallois (1969) (2)
- The Unbound Prometheus: Technological Change and Industrial Development in Western Europe From 1750 to the Present. By David S. Landes. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1969. Pp. lx + 566. $8.50 (1970) (2)
- Ricardo@@@The Works and Correspondence of David Ricardo. (1952) (2)
- The Prescriptions of the Classical Economists (1953) (2)
- Essays in Labour History in Memory of G. D. H. Cole. (1961) (2)
- Changing Perceptions of Economic Policy: Essays in Honour of the Seventieth Birthday of Sir Alec Cairncross. (1982) (2)
- ADAM SMITH AND THE BIOGRAPHER (1967) (2)
- The Economics of Sir James Steuart. By S. R. Sen. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. P. 207. $5.00 (1960) (2)
- Corn for South Lancashire and Beyond, 1780–1800:: The Firm of Corrie, Gladstone and Bradshaw* (1959) (1)
- Marshall and the Wages-Wealth Paradox (1957) (1)
- Stages and the State: How do they Relate? (1982) (1)
- British public policy 1776–1939: The policy imperatives of war; the reconstruction debate and the dismantlement of control, 1914–21 (1983) (1)
- British and Japanese Economic Interaction Under the Early Meiji: The Takashima Coal Mine 1868–88 (1984) (1)
- Marx and Engels on Malthus, Selections from the Writings of Marx and Engels Dealing with the Theories of Thomas Robert Malthus.@@@Introduction to Malthus.@@@The Malthusian Population Theory. (1954) (1)
- Davis (L. E.) & North (D. C) . Institutional Change and American Economic Growth (1972) (1)
- The strains of nationalism: Wales, Scotland and Ireland (1983) (0)
- General and Thematic (1979) (0)
- George Gordon and Brian Dicks (eds.), Scottish Urban History. Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1983. x + 281 pp. £11.00.Andrew Gibb, Glasgow. The Making of a City. London: Croom Helm, viii + 197 pp. £12.95. (1984) (0)
- When I Was a Child. By Charles Shaw. Firle, Sussex: Caliban Books, 1977. Pp viii, 256. £7.50.A Memoir of Robert Blincoe. By John Brown. Firle, Sussex: Caliban Books, 1977. Pp vi, 100. £6.00 (1979) (0)
- Mark Elvin and G. William Skinner (eds), The Chinese City Between Two Worlds . London and Stanford: Oxford University Press, 1975. 458 pp. Tables. Maps. £11·00 or $18·75. (1976) (0)
- British public policy 1776–1939: Core and periphery: England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland (1983) (0)
- British public policy 1776–1939: The continued freedom of the market mechanism; the state-induced changes in its operating conditions (1983) (0)
- English Provincial Cities (1953) (0)
- Marx and Mill. Two Views of Social Harmony and Social Conflict. (1975) (0)
- Scottish Economic History: Recent Work (1964) (0)
- The state and the proto-industrial economy of Britain (1983) (0)
- British public policy 1776–1939: The trend to economic laissez-faire (1983) (0)
- The Tobacco Lords: A Study of the Tobacco Merchants of Glasgow and Their Trading Activities c. 1740–90. By T. M. Devine. Edinburgh: John Donald, 1975. Pp. xi, 209 (1977) (0)
- Book Review: Order in Space and Society: Architectural Form and its Context in the Scottish Enlightenment edited by THOMAS A. MARKUS. Edinburgh: Mainstream. 1982. pp. 332. £20.00 (1983) (0)
- British public policy 1776–1939: Welfare and the social democratic urge (1983) (0)
- British public policy 1776–1939: The political and industrial attitudes of labour (1983) (0)
- Economic Doctrine and Method, An Historical Sketch.@@@A History of Economic Thought. (1955) (0)
- Book Review: Property and Politics 1870-1914: Landownership, Law, Ideology and Urban Development in England (1982) (0)
- British public policy 1776–1939: Micro-management: the restructuring of industry and agriculture; the regions (1983) (0)
- General and Thematic (1977) (0)
- The Correspondence of Lord Overstone. Vol. III December 1861-April 1883. (1974) (0)
- British public policy 1776–1939: The business response (1983) (0)
- Individual Towns and Regions (1976) (0)
- The British New Towns as Politics (Book Review) (1981) (0)
- The First Industrial Revolution.@@@Origins of the Industrial Revolution. (1967) (0)
- Scottish Capital on the American Credit Frontier . By W. G. Kerr. Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1976. Pp. xvi + 246. (1977) (0)
- British public policy 1776–1939: The assertion of the power of labour in industry and politics (1983) (0)
- British public policy 1776–1939: The advent of peacetime macro-economic management (1983) (0)
- THE STUDY OF BUSINESS BIOGRAPHY (1985) (0)
- British public policy 1776–1939: Bibliography (1983) (0)
- Steam Power and British Industrialisation to 1860. G. L. von TunzelmannThe Growth of British Industry. A. E. MussonElectricity before Nationalisation: A Study of the Development of the Electricity Supply Industry in Britain to 1948. Leslie Hannah (1980) (0)
- David D. Buck, Urban Change in China. Politics and Development in Tsinan, Shantung, 1890–1949. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1978. xvi + 296 pp. 5 maps. $15.00. (1980) (0)
- British public policy 1776–1939: The advance of social collectivism (1983) (0)
- Essays In Bibliography And Criticism Xix. David Ricardo (1952) (0)
- Douglas E. Ashford (ed.), National Resources and Urban Policy . London: Croom Helm. 1980. ix + 320 pp. £14.95. (1982) (0)
- The British City-Region as Historical and Political Challenge (1980) (0)
- General and Thematic (1983) (0)
- The state and the claims of labour (1983) (0)
- British public policy 1776–1939: Public policy by 1939 (1983) (0)
- International Relations and Politics (1982) (0)
- Devine T.M. and Dickson David, editors. Ireland & Scotland 1600-1850. Edinburgh: John Donald; distributed by Humanities Press, Inc. Atlantic Highlands H.J.. 1983. Pp. ix, 283. $33.75. (1984) (0)
- Land and rule in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland (1983) (0)
- The emergence of a public sector, chiefly at the local government level (1983) (0)
- British public policy 1776–1939: Social values and social policy (1983) (0)
- Urban Histotry in the British Idiom (1978) (0)
- British public policy 1776–1939: The market triumphant (1983) (0)
- Very long term history and people's history (1982) (0)
- British and Public Policy 1776–1939 (1985) (0)
- Adams, Ian H., "The Making of Urban Scotland" (Book Review) (1979) (0)
- British public policy 1776–1939: Micro-management: the public sector (1983) (0)
- John Koster, Anti-Bullionist (1952) (0)
- Voices across the Water: An Anglo-Canadian Boyhood. (1991) (0)
- The social action equation and the zeitgeist (1983) (0)
- British public policy 1776–1939: The welfare share: its elements and adequacy (1983) (0)
- XXV. ENGLISH PROVINCIAL CITIES (1953) (0)
- Early Thoughts on Progress and Profits (1960) (0)
- British public policy 1776–1939: Introduction (1983) (0)
- General and thematic (1978) (0)
- Book Review:Country Banking in the Industrial Revolution L. S. Pressnell (1957) (0)
- The Mining Industry and the Developing Countries . By Rex Bosson and Bension Varon. Oxford: Oxford University Press for the World Bank, 1977. Pp. xii, 292. $13.95 cloth, $5.95 paper. (1978) (0)
- Book Review: The Urban Question: A Marxist Approach (1978) (0)
- The Economic Evolution of the Modern World: A Review Article (1966) (0)
- Soviet history: Three reviews∗ (1970) (0)
- Book reviewOn history: F. Braudel, trans. S. Matthews (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1981), ix + 226 pp., £10.95. (1983) (0)
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