ERRATUM
In the March 2012 issue of the JOURNAL, in the book reviews, Reconceptualizing the Industrial Revolution, edited by Jeff Horn, Leonard N. Rosenband, and Merritt Roe Smith. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2010 was incorrectly titled as Reconceiving the Industrial Revolution.
2011 ECONOMIC HISTORY ASSOCIATION MEETINGS
The editors and the Association thank those who were program committee members, chairs, discussants, dissertation conveners, local arrangements committee members, and the meeting coordinator.
Olivier Accominotti, London School of Economics
Brian A'Hearn, University of Oxford
Martha Bailey, University of Michigan
Michael Bernstein, Tulane University
Michael Bordo, Rutgers University
Sabrina Boschetti, California Institute of Technology
Maristella Botticini, Università Bocconi
Stephen Broadberry, London School of Economics
John Brown, Clark University
Mark Carlson, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
David Chambers, University of Cambridge
Eric Chaney, Harvard University
Metin Cosgel, University of Connecticut
Jan de Vries, University of California, Berkeley
Jeremiah Dittmar, American University
Jari Eloranta, Appalachian State University
Dan Fetter, Wellesley College
Alexander Field, Santa Clara University
Price Fishback, University of Arizona
Marc Flandreau, Graduate Institute, Geneva
Caroline Fohlin, Johns Hopkins University
Richard Freeman, Harvard University and London School of Economics
Jerry Friedman, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Carola Frydman, Boston University
Claudia Goldin, Harvard University
Richard Grossman, Wesleyan University
Farley Grubb, University of Delaware
Timothy Guinnane, Yale University
Eric Hilt, Wellesley College
Masami Imai, Wesleyan University
Pinar Keskin, Wellesley College
Bill Lazonick, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Jonathan Liebowitz, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Robert Margo, Boston University
Joseph Mason, Louisiana State University
Noel Maurer, Harvard University
Anne McCants, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Chris Minns, London School of Economics
Kris Mitchener, Santa Clara University
Akira Motomura, Stonehill College
Aldo Musacchio, Harvard University
Steven Nafziger, Williams College
Martha Olney, University of California, Berkeley
Robert Pindyck, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Douglas Puffert, The King's College
Angela Redish, University of British Columbia
Paul Rhode, University of Michigan
Albrecht Ritschl, London School of Economics
Hugh Rockoff, Rutgers University
Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, California Institute of Technology
Max-Stephan Schulze, London School of Economics
Richard Steckel, The Ohio State University
Jochen Streb, University of Hohenheim
Scott Sumner, Bentley University
Richard Sylla, New York University
Alan Taylor, University of Virginia
Peter Temin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Marc Weidenmier, Claremont McKenna College
Eugene N. White, Rutgers University
Jeffrey G. Williamson, Harvard University
2012 ECONOMIC HISTORY ASSOCIATION MEETINGS 21–23 SEPTEMBER 2012
The seventy-second annual meetings of the Economic History Association will be held at the Sheraton Wall Centre in Vancouver, British Columbia, 21–23 September 2012. The theme of the meetings is “Revisiting the Transportation Revolution.” The papers chosen for presentation follow:
THE HISTORICAL EVOLUTION OF TRADE AND TRANSPORT COSTS
Brandon Dupont, Western Washington University, Drew Keeling, University of Zurich, and Thomas Weiss, University of Kansas, “Passenger Fares for Overseas Travel in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries”
Kris Inwood, University of Guelph, and Ian Keay, Queen's University, “Freight Rates, Transport Costs, Trade Costs, and the Decline of the Trans-Atlantic Iron Trade, 1870–1913”
Adrian Leonard, University of Cambridge, “The Pricing Revolution in Marine Insurance”
CITIES IN ECONOMIC HISTORY
Jim Siodla, University of California, Irvine, “Razing San Francisco: The 1906 Disaster and the Legacy of Urban Land Use”
Martha J. Bailey, University of Michigan, Brian Jacob, University of Michigan, Michael Kavane, Santa Clara University, and William Sundstrom, Santa Clara University, “Carnegie's Legacy and the Growth of American Cities: Did Public Libraries Have Any Measurable Effects?”
Molly C. Ball, University of California, Los Angeles, “Real Wage Evolution in Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1891–1930”
CENTRAL BANKS FOR LIQUIDITY AND OTHER PURPOSES
Clemens Jobst, Austrian National Bank, and Vincent Bignon, Bank of France, “Eligibility to Central Bank Liquidity and the Bankruptcy Rate: Lessons from France, 1826–1913”
Mary Eschelbach Hansen, American University, “Financial System Liquidity and Bankruptcy: Mississippi, 1929–1931”
Eric Monnet, Paris School of Economics, “Financing a Planned Economy: Institutions, Information Network, and Credit Allocation in the French Golden Age of Growth, 1954–1974”
Catherine R. Schenk, University of Glasgow, “Managing the Retreat of the Dollar in the International Monetary System: Would a Substitution Account Have Worked?”
RAILROADS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Dave Donaldson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Richard Hornbeck, Harvard University, “Railroads and American Economic Growth: New Data and Theory”
Dan Bogart, University of California, Irvine, and Latika Chaudhary, Scripps College, “Engines of Growth: The Productivity Advance of Indian Railways, 1874–1912”
Se Yan, Peking University, “Railroads and Market Integration in China”
Marta Felis-Rota, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Jordi Marti Hennenberg, Universitat de Lleida, and Laia Mojica, Universitat de Lleida, “A GIS Analysis of the Evolution of the Railway Network and Population Density in England and Wales, 1851–2000”
BIRTHS AND DEATHS
Louis Cain, Loyola University and Northwestern University, Sok Chul Hong, Sogang University, and Carlos Villareal, University of Chicago, “Inter-Urban Health Disparities: Survival in the Wards of Nineteenth-Century American Cities”
Daniel Aaronson, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Fabian Lange, Yale University, and Bhashkar Mazumder, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, “Fertility Transitions Along the Intensive and Extensive Margins”
Francesco Cinnirella, IFO Institute and CESifo, Munich, Marc P. Klemp, University of Copenhagen, and Jacob Weisdorf, University of Copenhagen, “Malthus in the Bedroom: Birth Spacing as a Preventive Check Mechanism in England, 1540–1870”
Martin Saavedra, University of Pittsburgh, “Early Life Conditions and Adult Outcomes: Evidence from Japanese American Internment”
THE DECISIVE ROLE OF BOND MARKETS
David Chambers, University of Cambridge, Sergei Sarkissian, McGill University, and Michael Shill, University of Virginia, “Geography and Capital: Global Finance and the U.S. Railroad Industry”
Kim Oosterlinck, Universitelibre de Bruxelles, Loredana Ureche-Rangau, Universite de Picardie Jules Verne, and Jacques Marie-Vaslin, Universite de Picardie Jules Verne, “Waterloo: A Godsend for French Finance?”
Kirsten Wandschneider, Occidental College, “Landschaften as Credit Purveyors: The Example of East Prussia”
MARKET ACCESS AND TRADE: CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES
Theresa Gutberlet, University of Arizona, “Cheap Coal, Market Access, and Industry Location in Germany, 1846–1882”
Florian Ploeckl, University of Oxford, “It's All in the Mail: Information Exchange, Market Access, Amenities, and the Spatial Structure of the German Empire”
Wolfgang Keller, University of Colorado, Boulder, Ben Li, Boston College, and Carol H. Shiue, University of Colorado, Boulder, “Shanghai's Trade, China's Growth: Continuity, Recovery, and Change Since the Opium War”
INTERNAL AND INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION
Guillaume Daudin, Sciences Po, Raphael Frank, Bar-Ilan University, and Hillel Rapoport, Harvard University, “Fertility Convergence Through Internal Migration: France in the Nineteenth Century”
Catherine Massey, University of Colorado, Boulder, “Immigration Quotas and Immigrant Skill Composition: Evidence from the Pacific Northwest”
Joseph Ferrie, Northwestern University, and Jason Long, Colby College, “British, American, and British American Social Mobility: Intergenerational Occupational Change Among Migrants and Nonmigrants in the Late Nineteenth Century”
FINANCIAL CRISES IN THE UNITED STATES
Christopher Hanes, Binghamton University, and Paul Rhode, University of Michigan, “Harvests and Financial Crises in Gold Standard America”
Mary Tone Rodgers, University of South Florida Polytechnic, “An Overlooked Central Bank Rescue: How the Bank of France Ended the American Panic of 1907”
Carola Frydman, Boston University, and Eric Hilt, Wellesley College, “The Panic of 1907: JP Morgan, Trust Companies, and the Impact of the Financial Crisis”
SLAVERY AND SERFDOM
Jeremiah Dittmar, Princeton University, and Suresh Naidu, Columbia University, “Peculiar Institutions: The Economics of Slavery in the USA”
James Fenske, University of Oxford, and Namrata Kala, Yale University, “Temperature Shocks and the Slave Trade”
Steven Nafziger, Williams College, “Serfdom, Land Inequality, and Economic Development in Tsarist Russia”
HOUSEHOLDS AND FIRMS IN U.S. ECONOMIC HISTORY
Ryan Lampe, DePaul University, and Petra Moser, Stanford University, “Do Patent Pools Encourage Innovation? Evidence from Twenty Industries in the 1930s”
Li Liu, University of Oxford, “Income Taxation and Business Incorporation: Evidence from the Early Twentieth Century”
Melinda Miller, United States Naval Academy, “The Validity of the Boas Cherokee Height Data”
THE STATE FOR WAR AND GROWTH
Hans-Joachim Voth, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, “State Capacity and Military Conflict”
Mark Dincecco, IMT-Lucca Institute for Advanced Studies, “State Capacity and Long-Run Performance”
Gregg Huff, University of Oxford, “Financing Japan's World War II Occupation of Southeast Asia”
ECONOMIC GROWTH IN THE COLONIES
Hania Aboual-Shamat, University of Florida, “Muslims' Response to the Secularization of Commercial Law in Egypt, 1883–1949”
Stephen Broadberry, London School of Economics, and Bishnypriya Gupta, University of Warwick, “India and the Great Divergence: An Anglo-Indian Comparison of GDP per Capita, 1600–1871”
Susan Wolcott, Binghamton University, “Evidence of Labor Bargaining Power Among Indian Industrial Workers in the Early Twentieth Century”
INNOVATION AND INSTITUTIONS
Regina Grafe, Northwestern University, “Distant Tyranny: Why Spain Fell Behind in the Early Modern Period”
Timothy Guinnane, Yale University, and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, California Institute of Technology, “Adapting Law to Fit the Facts: The GmbH, the SARL, and the Organization of Small Firms in Germany and France, 1892–1930”
Peter B. Meyer, Bureau of Labor Statistics, “Open Technology and the Early Airplane Industry”
MARKETS AND MARKET INTEGRATION
Darrell J. Glaser, United States Naval Academy, and Ahmen S. Rahman, United States Naval Academy, “Ex Tridens Mercatus—Sea Power and Trade in the Age of Globalization”
Philip Slavin, McGill University, “Grain Market Failure, Hoarding, and Speculation: New Evidence on the Great European Famine in England and Wales, 1315–1317”
Liam Brunt, HEC-Lausanne, and Edmund Cannon, University of Bristol, “Integration in the English Wheat Market, 1770–1820”
ECONOMIC HISTORY SOCIETY ANNUAL CONFERENCE 5–7 APRIL 2013, UNIVERSITY OF YORK CALL FOR ACADEMIC PAPERS
The 2013 annual conference of the Economic History Society will be hosted by the University of York from 5–7 April.
The conference programme committee welcomes proposals in all aspects of economic and social history covering a wide range of periods and countries, and particularly welcomes papers of an inter-disciplinary nature. Preference may be given to scholars who did not present a paper at the previous year's conference. Those currently studying for, or who have recently completed, a Ph.D. should submit a proposal to the New Researcher session; please contact Maureen Galbraith (ehsocsec@arts.gla.ac.uk) for further information.
The committee invites proposals for individual papers, as well as for entire sessions (3 speakers [optimum], 1.5 hours duration; no more than 4 papers will be accepted for any one session). Please note that the committee reserves the right to determine which papers will be presented in the session if it is accepted. If a session is not accepted, the committee may incorporate one or more of the proposed papers into other panels.
Proposals should please be submitted online via the Economic History Society website (www.ehs.org.uk). You will be asked to submit:
For single paper submissions:
• The title of the paper proposed.
• A short abstract of the paper proposed (400–500 words).*
• Up to five keywords, which can be used to help the conference coordinating committee allocate papers between sessions.
• Contact details (name, affiliation and e-mail address; including those of co-authors).
• A brief C.V.
For sessions:
• The title of the proposed session.
• The rationale for the session (up to 100 words).
• The titles of each paper proposed.
• A short abstract for each paper proposed (400–500 words).*
• Contact details for each speaker (name, affiliation and e-mail address; including those of co-authors).
• A brief C.V. for each proposed speaker.
* The abstract(s) should: explain the background to the paper; the questions it addresses; the sources and methods it employs; and the main conclusions or findings.
For full consideration, proposals must be received by 12 September 2012. Notices of acceptance will be sent to individual paper givers by mid-November 2012. Should your paper be accepted, you will be asked to provide the following:
• A revised abstract of the paper (750–1,000 words) for inclusion in the conference booklet (by 12 December 2012).
• A brief non-technical summary of your paper (if required) for the “Media Briefings” section of the Society's website (by 1 February 2013).
• An electronic copy of your full paper, or a web address where the paper is available for consultation (by 1 March 2013).
It is the normal expectation that speakers who submit a proposal for a paper to the conference committee should be able to obtain independent financial support for their travel and conference attendance. However, a very limited support fund exists to assist overseas speakers who are unable to obtain funding from their own institution or from another source. Details of this fund and an application form can be obtained from the Society's administrative secretary, Maureen Galbraith. It is important that a completed application form is submitted by the September deadline. Only in exceptional circumstances will later applications for support be considered.
Any queries should please be directed to Maureen Galbraith.
