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Michael Postan

January 01, 1970

Sir Michael Moissey Postan FBA (24 September 1899 – 12 December 1981)[1] was a British historian. He was known informally as Munia Postan.[2]

Biography edit

Postan was born to a Jewish family in Bendery, in the Bessarabia Governorate of the Russian Empire, and studied at the St Vladimir University in Kyiv, leaving Russia in 1919 after the October Revolution and settling in the UK. He held positions at University College London and at the London School of Economics, before being appointed Professor of Economic History at the University of Cambridge, from 1937. He was known as an economic historian of medieval Europe. Eric Hobsbawm notes he was one of the best lecturers at Cambridge, adding, "Though passionately anti-communist, Postan was the only man in Cambridge who knew Marx, Weber, Sombart and the rest of the great central and East Europeans, and took their work sufficiently seriously to expound and criticize it."[3]

Marriages edit

He married historian Eileen Power in 1937. After she died in 1940, he married Lady Cynthia Rosalie Keppel, daughter of the 9th Earl of Albemarle, with whom he had two sons. He died in Cambridge.

Works edit

I: The Agrarian Life of the Middle Ages 2nd edition 1966, editor excerpt and text search
II: Trade and Industry in the Middle Ages (1952) edited with Edward Miller and Cynthia Postan
III: Economic Organization and Policies in the Middle Ages (1963) edited with E. E. Rich and Edward Miller
IV: The Cambridge Economic History of Europe, Volume IV: The Economy of Expanding Europe in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, edited with E. E. Rich and Edward Miller
V: The Cambridge Economic History of Europe. Volume V: The Economic Organization of Early Modern Europe (1977) edited by E. E. Rich and C. H. Wilson
VI: The Industrial Revolutions and After (1966) edited with H. J. Habbakuk
VII: The Industrial Economies: Capital, Labour and Enterprise (1978) edited with Peter Mathias, Part 2 extending to the United States, Japan and Russia
VIII: The Industrial Economies: The Development of Economic and Social Policies (1989) edited by Peter Mathias and Sidney Pollard
  • An Economic History of Western Europe 1945 - 1964 (1967)
  • Fact and Relevance: Essays on Historical Method (1971)
  • The Medieval Economy and Society: Economic History of Britain, 1100-1500 (1972) Pelican Economic History of Britain #1
  • Essays on Medieval Agriculture and General Problems of the Medieval Economy (1973)
  • Medieval Trade and Finance (1973)

References edit

  1. ^ Miller, "Postan," Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online
  2. ^ Calladine, Chris (November 2015). "Richard Goodwin at Peterhouse". Cambridge Journal of Economics. 39 (6): 1497–1505. doi:10.1093/cje/bev055.
  3. ^ Hobsbawm, Eric (2003). Interesting Times: A Twentieth-Century Life. Random House. p. 283. ISBN 9780307426413.

Further reading edit

  • Edward Miller, "Postan, Sir Michael Moïssey (1899–1981)" Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 3 Dec 2012

January 01, 1970
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