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Has the retardation theis been overthrown by recent, mainly cliometric historians?
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Has the retardation theis been overthrown by recent, mainly cliometric historians? The retardation thesis postulates that, during the 18th and 19th centuries, France failed to take advantage of the economic opportunities available to it. Traditionally historians looked to the English industrial revolution and compared its features, as well as the preceding political, social and economic conditions, with those of France. By looking at the differences historians highlighted features in the French economy and social institutions that were different to those of England. These factors were then converted into causal factors for the slower development of the French economy. The retardation thesis is very much a comparative theory. The word retardation implies some form of norm or comparative rate of growth. The French economy was retarded because it did not grow as quickly, or as dramatically as the British economy. In this essay I will briefly outline some of the fundamental features...
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