Portsmouth Business School
Emeritus Prof Tim Rooth
Professor of Economic History
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Portsmouth Business School
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Portsmouth
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UK
Profile
Tim Rooth BSc (Econ)(Hull) Dip.Ed (Birmingham) Ph.D. (Hull)
Tim is Emeritus Professor of Modern Economic History in the Department of Economics.
He is a specialist in the history of the international economy and has published in a wide range of academic journals, including the Economic History Review, the Historical Journal, Twentieth Century British History, Enterprise & Society, the Journal of Industrial History, the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, the Australian Economic History Review, the British Journal of Canadian Studies, the Agricultural History Review and the Journal of European Economic History.
In addition to his contributions to a number of books, he is the author of British Protectionism and the International Economy: Overseas Commercial Policy in the 1930s, published by Cambridge University Press. He was also editor of Canadian Studies in Britain 1970 - 2010 (London, 2007). Tim is a Past President of the British Association for Canadian Studies.
He is currently working on the comparative economic performance of settler societies since the late nineteenth century and on the economics of empire during the twentieth century.
Office Hours: Monday 11:00 - 12:00 ; 13:30 - 14:30 (by appointment)