Edward Potts Cheyney
American historian and economist
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| Intro | American historian and economist | |
| Places | United States of America | |
| was | Economist Historian | |
| Work field | Finance Social science | |
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| Birth | 17 January 1861, Wallingford, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. | |
| Death | 1 January 1947Chester, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. (aged 86 years) |
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Edward Potts Cheyney, A.M., LL.D. (1861–1947) was an American historical and economic writer, born at Wallingford, Pennsylvania. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1883. He visited German universities and studied at the British Museum. The University of Pennsylvania conferred the degree of LL.D. on him in 1911.
His writings were employed as college textbooks. They include:
- Social Changes in England in the Sixteenth Century (1896)
- Social and Industrial History of England (1901)
- Short History of England (1904)
- European Background of American History (1904)
- Readings in English History (1908)
- A History of England, from the Defeat of the Armada to the Death of Elizabeth (two volumes; volume i, 1914)