Editing Economic history (section)

==Academic journals and societies==
The first journal specializing in the field of economic history was ''[[The Economic History Review]]'', founded in 1927, as the main publication of the [[Economic History Society]]. The first journal featured a publication by Professor Sir [[William Ashley (economic historian)|William Ashley]], the first Professor of Economic History in the English-speaking world, who described the emerging field of economic history. The discipline existed alongside long-standing fields such as [[political history]], [[religious history]], and [[military history]] as one that focused on humans' interactions with 'visible happenings'. He continued, '[economic history] primarily and unless expressly extended, the history of actual human practice with respect to the material basis of life. The visible happenings with regard-to use the old formula-to "the production, distribution, and consumption of wealth" form our wide enough field'.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Ashley |first1=William |title=The Place of Economic History in University Studies |journal=The Economic History Review |date=1927 |volume=1 |issue=1 |pages=1–11|doi=10.2307/2590667 |jstor=2590667 }}</ref>

Later, the [[Economic History Association]] established another academic journal, ''[[The Journal of Economic History]]'', in 1941 as a way of expanding the discipline in the [[United States]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Heaton |first1=Herbert |title=The Early History of the Economic History Association |journal=The Journal of Economic History |date=1941 |volume=1}}</ref> The first president of the Economic History Association, [[Edwin F. Gay]], described the aim of economic history as to provide new perspectives in the economics and history disciplines: 'An adequate equipment with two skills, that of the historian and the economist, is not easily acquired, but experience shows that it is both necessary and possible'.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Gay |first1=Edwin F. |title=The Tasks of Economic History |journal=The Journal of Economic History |date=1941 |volume=1|pages=9–16 |doi=10.1017/S0022050700052128 |s2cid=250121256 }}</ref> Other related academic journals have broadened the lens with which economic history is studied. These interdisciplinary journals include the ''[[Business History Review]]'', ''[[European Review of Economic History]]'', ''[[Enterprise and Society]]'', and ''[[Financial History Review]]''.

The ''International Economic History Association'', an association of close to 50 member organizations, recognizes some of the major academic organizations dedicated to study of economic history: the [[Business History Conference]], [[Economic History Association]], [[Economic History Society]], [[Eabh|European Association of Business Historians]], and the [[International Social History Association]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Members |url=http://www.ieha-wehc.org/members.html |website=International Economic History Association |access-date=2019-12-31 |archive-date=2019-12-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191231135928/http://www.ieha-wehc.org/members.html |url-status=live }}</ref>