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The History of Collections, the History of Economics as an Academic Discipline – a Cambridge Field Study

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  • Susan Finding

    (MIMMOC [Poitiers] - Mémoires, identités, marginalités dans le monde occidental contemporain [UR 15072] - UP - Université de Poitiers = University of Poitiers)

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Following the serendipitous discovery of a first edition of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations in Poitiers University Library Special Collections in 2009, I embarked upon a project which sought to unravel the whys, hows and wherefores of a collection of early rare economic books in English at Poitiers. The Humanities project for which I was awarded the French Government Fellowship at Churchill College for 2020-2021 resulted from this quest and focused on issues of collection formation and the sourcing of rare economic history books with reference to significant collections and collectors, networking and nodal connections in the world of antiquarian books and academic scholarship in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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  • Susan Finding, 2025. "The History of Collections, the History of Economics as an Academic Discipline – a Cambridge Field Study," Post-Print hal-05563726, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-05563726
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