Charles Knickerbocker Harley is an academic economic historian who has written on a wide range of topics including the British Industrial Revolution, the late nineteenth century international economy, and the impact of technological change.
He completed his dissertation, Shipbuilding and Shipping in the Late Nineteenth Century, on the transition from wooden sailing ships to steel steamers, in 1972.
[2] He took a professorship at the University of British Columbia.
[3] In 2005 he joined the faculty of St. Antony's College, Oxford,[4] where he stayed until becoming an Emeritus Fellow in 2011.
[6] He has been awarded The Cliometric Society's Clio Can in 1999 in recognition of his exceptional support of cliometrics[7] and the Arthur H. Cole Prize by the Journal of Economic History, for his essay, "British Industrialization Before 1841: Evidence of Slower Growth During the Industrial Revolution".