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The patterns of economic and social development associated with European industrialization in the last several centuries have been primary topics of comment virtually since they occurred. The career of Sidney Pollard, spanning the second half of this century, has been focused on these topics, and this volume, presented to him on his retirement from teaching in 1990, shares this emphasis.
It would be asking too much of a Festschrift for its various essays to work together to build a common thesis or even to pursue a common theme, and this one is no exception to the rules of the genre. The editors open the collection with a biographical sketch of Pollard, who emigrated to …