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Global Economic History Seminar
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This seminar meets weekly during the second half of the Lent term (March) and in the Easter term, usually on Mondays 17:15-19:00 in the Audit Room, King’s College, Cambridge. We ask people to come in person if at all possible, but there will be a zoom link for those who cannot. 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 23 talks in the archive. Gold, Coins and Conflict: Currency Tensions and the Minting of the Anglo-Boer War, 1891-1899
Structural Adjustment in Africa: Ghana and Kenya Compared, 1981-1990This is the first Global Economic History Seminar meeting of 2025
‘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
‘A Taste for Mocha: Competing for the Coffee Trade in the Eighteenth Century’
‘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
‘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
Fifty Years of 'An Economic History of West Africa'
The Greatest Divergence of World History: Elite violence and elite numeracy in the Middle East from 500 CE to 1900 CE”
Ideology and Economic Change: The Contrasting Paths to the Modern Economy in late 19th Century China and Japan
The tax haven that wasn't: state, capital, and the politics of corporate taxation in the French colonial empire, 1920s-1950s
Native Authorities and Infrastructural Investments in Colonial Africa: The Electrification of Nigerian Towns, 1910-1950
‘Cross-Cultural Trade and the Slave Ship the Bonne Société: Baskets of Goods, Diverse Sellers, and Time Pressure on the African Coast’
‘The decolonisation of African states. Taxation and expenditure in former French Africa, 1900-2020’
‘In Search of the Roots of the East Asian Miracle: The role of colonialism and extraction’
‘The Rothschild tobacco business in the nineteenth century: the interplay between finance and commodities’
Mao's Steelworks: Industrial Manchuria and the Making of Chinese Socialism
Understanding Japan’s competitiveness in the global cotton market in the early 20th century’
Capital and labour: Theoretical foundations of the economics of slavery
Democracy, Autocracy and Sovereign Debt: How Polity Influenced Country Risk in the First Financial Globalisation
History of Cooperatives beyond Europe: Developmental Capitalism in India and Ghana, 1920 to 1960
Just Commerce: Ethical Capitalism in the Age of Abolition
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
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)
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Monday 17 March 2025, 17:15-19:00