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Charles Knickerbocker Harley
Economic historian
Charles Knickerbocker Harley is an academic economic historian who has written on a wide range of topics including the British industrial revolution, the late nineteenth century international economy, and the impact of technological change. He is a practitioner of the New Economic History.[1]
At Harvard he studied under Alexander Gerschenkron. He completed his dissertation, Shipbuilding and Shipping in the Late Nineteenth Century, on the transition from wooden sailing ships to steel steamers, in 1972.[2] He took a professorship at the University of British Columbia. In 1978 he moved to the University of Western Ontario.[3] In 2005 he joined the faculty of St. Antony's College, Oxford,[4] where he stayed until becoming an Emeritus Fellow in 2011.[5]
He has been a frequent collaborator with N.F.R. Crafts.[6]
He has been awarded The Cliometric Society's Clio Can in 1999 in recognition of his exceptional support of cliometrics[7] and the Arthur H. Cole Prize by the Journal of Economic History, for his essay, "British Industrialization Before 1841: Evidence of Slower Growth During the Industrial Revolution".[8]