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Global Economic History Seminar
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This seminar meets weekly during the first part of the Easter term, on Tuesdays 17:00-18h30, on Zoom. The Zoom link, and the paper (if one is available ahead of the seminar, as is often the case) will be sent to subscribers to the GEH Seminar email list. A link to join the list can be found at https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/event-series/global-economic-history Subscribers are welcome from anywhere in the world. Please note: if you wish to subscribe, please identify yourself by first and last name plus any institutional affiliation. If you have a question about this list, please contact: Gareth Austin. If you have a question about a specific talk, click on that talk to find its organiser. 0 upcoming talks and 21 talks in the archive. ‘The Glorious Revolution that Wasn’t: Rural Elite Conflict and Demand for Democratization in Khedival Egypt’ (Co-authored with Allison Spencer Hartnett)Zoom. The link will be sent to everyone on the seminar e-list. To subscribe, wherever you are in the world, please visit https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/event-series/global-economic-history Mohamed Saleh (London School of Economics). King's College (the Audit Room) and online (see special message above). Tuesday 21 May 2024, 17:15-18:45 ‘A Taste for Mocha: Competing for the Coffee Trade in the Eighteenth Century’Guillemette Aline Crouzet (European University Institute). King's College (the Audit Room) and online (see special message above). Tuesday 07 May 2024, 17:15-18:45 ‘Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World’Joint meeting with Cambridge Centre for History & Economics Seminar. Hybrid: a Zoom link will be sent to members of the Global Economic History Seminar list. To subscribe, please visit https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/event-series/global-economic-history Marc-William Palen (University of Exeter). King's College (the Audit Room) and online (see special message above). Tuesday 30 April 2024, 17:15-18:45 ‘Imperial Regulation, Commercial Practices, and the Pan-European Genesis of the Trade in Enslaved Africans to Spanish America’Zoom. The link will be sent to everyone on the seminar e-list. To subscribe, wherever you are in the world, please visit https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/event-series/global-economic-history Regina Grafe (University of Cambridge). King's College (the Audit Room) and online (see special message above). Tuesday 23 April 2024, 17:15-18:45 Fifty Years of 'An Economic History of West Africa'Speakers to be confirmed. Tuesday 06 June 2023, 17:15-18:45 The Greatest Divergence of World History: Elite violence and elite numeracy in the Middle East from 500 CE to 1900 CE”Speaker to be confirmed. King's College, Cambridge: the Audit Room.. Tuesday 16 May 2023, 17:15-18:45 Ideology and Economic Change: The Contrasting Paths to the Modern Economy in late 19th Century China and JapanDebin Ma (All Souls, Oxford). King's College, Cambridge: the Audit Room. Tuesday 09 May 2023, 17:15-18:45 The tax haven that wasn't: state, capital, and the politics of corporate taxation in the French colonial empire, 1920s-1950sMadeline Woker (Cambridge). King's College, Cambridge: the Audit Room. Tuesday 02 May 2023, 17:15-18:45 Native Authorities and Infrastructural Investments in Colonial Africa: The Electrification of Nigerian Towns, 1910-1950Damilola Adebayo. Tuesday 25 April 2023, 17:15-18:45 ‘Cross-Cultural Trade and the Slave Ship the Bonne Société: Baskets of Goods, Diverse Sellers, and Time Pressure on the African Coast’Anne Ruderman (London School of Economics). Tuesday 24 May 2022, 17:00-18:30 ‘The decolonisation of African states. Taxation and expenditure in former French Africa, 1900-2020’Denis Cogneau (Paris School of Economics, IRD, EHESS). Tuesday 17 May 2022, 17:00-18:30 ‘In Search of the Roots of the East Asian Miracle: The role of colonialism and extraction’Montserrat Lopez Jerez (University of St Andrews). Tuesday 10 May 2022, 17:00-18:30 ‘The Rothschild tobacco business in the nineteenth century: the interplay between finance and commodities’William Gervase Clarence-Smith, SOAS University of London. Tuesday 03 May 2022, 17:00-18:30 Mao's Steelworks: Industrial Manchuria and the Making of Chinese SocialismKoji Hirata (Emmanuel College, Cambridge). Tuesday 25 May 2021, 17:00-18:30 Understanding Japan’s competitiveness in the global cotton market in the early 20th century’Janet Hunter (Dept of Economic History, London School of Economics). Tuesday 18 May 2021, 17:00-18:25 Capital and labour: Theoretical foundations of the economics of slaveryErik Green and Igor Martins (both Lund University). Tuesday 11 May 2021, 17:00-18:30 Democracy, Autocracy and Sovereign Debt: How Polity Influenced Country Risk in the First Financial GlobalisationLeonardo Weller (Escola de Economia de São Paulo da Fundação Getulio Varga) and Coşkun Tuncer (University College London). Tuesday 04 May 2021, 17:00-18:30 History of Cooperatives beyond Europe: Developmental Capitalism in India and Ghana, 1920 to 1960Nikolay Kamenov (Graduate Institute, Geneva). Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge (the Green Room). Tuesday 21 May 2019, 17:00-18:30 Just Commerce: Ethical Capitalism in the Age of AbolitionBronwen Everill (Gonville & Caius, University of Cambridge). Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge (room: the Senior Parlour). Tuesday 14 May 2019, 17:00-18:30 Community Origins of Industrial Development in Pre-Independence IndiaThe paper is available for reading in advance: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/research/centres/cage/manage/publications/402-2019_gupta.pdf Bishnupriya Gupta (University of Warwick). Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge: the Green Room. Tuesday 07 May 2019, 17:00-18:30 Why Was the Manila Galleon Only One-Ship Trade?The paper is available in advance (only) to people coming to the seminar. If this is you, please email Gareth Austin accordingly (gma31@cam.ac.uk) Alejandra Irigoin (London School of Economics). Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge: the Green Room. Tuesday 30 April 2019, 17:00-18:30 Please see above for contact details for this list. |
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