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Drawn from a lifetime of research in unique and vanishing archives around Ireland, Britain, and Europe, this collection of essays and lectures on Irish economic activities in history provides a primer on four centuries of trade and merchant activities from one of the most distinguished scholars of modern Irish history. Addressing a wide range of topics from wages and comparative development in Ireland and Scotland in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, to boom and bust crisis in the 1950s and 1980s, the text details the intricacies of economic life on both macro and micro levels of society. Cullen is professor emeritus of modern Irish history at Trinity College, Dublin. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
