Fifty Years of 'An Economic History of West Africa'

Speakers to be confirmed.

To Be Announced.

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 Japan

Debin 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-1950s

Madeline 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, 1910-1950

Damilola Adebayo.

King's College, Cambridge: the Audit Room. The meeting will be hybrid: 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.

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).

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.

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).

Audit Room, King's College.

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).

Audit Room, King's College.

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.

Audit Room, King's College.

Tuesday 03 May 2022, 17:00-18:30

Mao's Steelworks: Industrial Manchuria and the Making of Chinese Socialism

Koji Hirata (Emmanuel College, Cambridge).

Faculty of History, Cambridge: Zoom (to receive link please register at https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/event-series/global-economic-history.

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).

Faculty of History, Cambridge: Zoom (to receive link please register at https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/event-series/global-economic-history.

Tuesday 18 May 2021, 17:00-18:25

Capital and labour: Theoretical foundations of the economics of slavery

Erik Green and Igor Martins (both Lund University).

Faculty of History, Cambridge: Zoom (to receive link please register at https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/event-series/global-economic-history.

Tuesday 11 May 2021, 17:00-18:30

Democracy, Autocracy and Sovereign Debt: How Polity Influenced Country Risk in the First Financial Globalisation

Leonardo Weller (Escola de Economia de São Paulo da Fundação Getulio Varga) and Coşkun Tuncer (University College London).

Faculty of History, Cambridge: Zoom (to receive link please register at https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/event-series/global-economic-history.

Tuesday 04 May 2021, 17:00-18:30

History of Cooperatives beyond Europe: Developmental Capitalism in India and Ghana, 1920 to 1960

Nikolay 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 Abolition

Bronwen 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 India

The 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