Rondo Emmett Cameron (February 20, 1925 – January 1, 2001) was an American professor of

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. He was a native of

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. He graduated from

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(1948) and received a Ph.D. degree at the

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(1952). He taught at the

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from 1952. In 1969, he went to

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where he was Kenan University Professor until his retirement as emeritus professor in 1993. He was president of the International Economic History Association (Sylla, 2001). He is well known for his book ''A Concise Economic History of the World: From Paleolithic Times to the Present'' (1989). According to the preface, the book was many years in the maturing, with passages in one chapter from an introductory undergraduate lecture at Yale in 1951.

Selected publications

* Jerome Blum, Rondo Cameron, and Thomas G. Barnes. (1970). ''The European World''. Little, Brown. * Rondo Cameron et al. (1975). ''Civilizations: Western and World''. * Rondo E. Cameron. ''France and the Economic Development of Europe, 1800-1914: Conquests of Peace and Seeds of War'' (1961), a wide-ranging economic and business history * _____ (1967). ''Banking in the Early Stages of Industrialization''. * _____ (1989). ''A Concise Economic History of the World: From Paleolithic Times to the Present'', Oxford. * Rondo Cameron and

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(2003, 4th ed.) ''A Concise Economic History of the World: From Paleolithic Times to the Present'', 480 pp., including annotated bibliography, Oxford
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External links

Rondo Cameron 1925-2001.
A tribute, Emory University Department of History Newsletter, August, 2001. * Richard Sylla (2001
EH.N: ''Rondo Cameron, 1925-2001''.
Biographical details and professional assessment. 20th-century American economists 1925 births 2001 deaths American economic historians 20th-century American historians 20th-century American male writers Historians of Europe Yale University alumni University of Chicago alumni University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty Emory University faculty American male non-fiction writers {{US-historian-stub