26 – 28 March 2010
Conference Papers
Friday 26 March 2010
1400-1530 New Researchers’ Session I (6 parallel sessions)
IA: Nutrition, Height and Disease (chair: Jeremy Boulton) (Rm 228/229, Earth Sciences)
Global height trends and the determinants of anthropometric welfare, 1810s-1980s
Matthias Blum & Joerg Baten (
The
Graham A Butler (
Nutritional status in pre-historic and historic Europe
Nikola Koepke (
IB: Accountancy, State Formation and Environment before 1550 (chair: Benjamin Dodds) (Rm 230, Earth Sciences)
Adoption and development of accounting practices and procedures at
Alisdair Dobie (
The Somerset gentry during the reigns of Henry VII and Henry VIII
Simon Lambe (St. Mary’s
Between famine and plague: the impact of environmental and institutional crises on nutrition in late-medieval
Philip Slavin (
IC: Early Modern I: Banking, Industry and Innovation (chair: Ranald Michie) (Rm 231, Earth Sciences)
Distrust, innovations, and public service: ‘projecting’ in seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century
Koji Yamamoto (King’s College London)
Grey gold at the frontier of change: the Bowes family estate’s role in the North East lead industry, 1550-1760
John Brown (
Learning from crises: the example of private bankers in the aftermath of the
Gareth Turner (
ID: Twentieth Century I: Banks and Bonds (chair: Abe de Jong) (Kingsley Barrett, Calman)
Interbank competition and financial stability: the case of Dutch cooperative banks in the early twentieth century
Christopher L Colvin (
Marching in the storms: the Chinese bond market 1918-42
Chun-Yu Ho (Georgia Institute of Technology) & Dan Li (
The effects of regulatory reform on the strategies and performance of Dutch banks
Pooyan Ghazizadeh, Abe de Jong (
IE: Trade and Transport (chair: Peter Howlett) (Rosemary Cramp, Calman)
Neutrality for self-benefit? Spanish trade in the Second World War
Eric Golson (
Borders, market access and urban growth: Saxon towns and the Zollverein
Florian Ploeckl (
Understanding why airships lost the sky to aeroplanes
Klaus Burgmeier (
1600-1730 New Researchers’ Session II (6 parallel sessions)
IIA: Wages, Inflation and Economic Crisis, 1400-1700 (chair: Benjamin Dodds) (Rm 228/229, Earth Sciences)
Rising wages in fifteenth-century English agriculture
Gerald Liu (
The economic problems of the 1690s: social consequences, official responses and popular reactions
Brodie Waddell (
IIB: Christian Socialism, Business and Finance in the Nineteenth century (chair: Colin Lewis) (Rm 230, Earth Sciences)
The contribution of business networks to the formation of the
Stephen James (
Christian Socialism, economic discourse and the 'conversion of the economists', 1880-1914
Daniel Budden (
Institutions, sovereign risk and taxation: international financial control in the Ottoman Empire,
Ali Coskun Tunçer (
IIC: Early Modern II: Commerce, Consumption and Culture (chair: Maxine Berg) (Rm 231, Earth Sciences)
A case-study of social inequality and consumption in the city of
Wouter Ryckbosch (
Consuming production: representations of ceramic manufacturing in late eighteenth-century
Kate Smith (
IID: 1750-1850 II: Labour and Education (chair: John Lyons) (Derman Christopherson, Calman)
Does neoclassical theory accurately describe historical labour markets? The case of women in textiles, 1780-1850
Paul Minoletti (
Consent and consumption: the binding of chimney sweep apprentices, c.1780-1840
Niels van Manen (
IIE: Twentieth Century II:
Picking winners? Renewable energy policy in the
From civil liberties to human rights: British civil liberties activism and the
Christopher Moores (
Explaining British voluntarism: unions, wage differentials, and the introduction of the statutory national minimum wage
Dennie Oude-Nijhuis (
IIF: Development and Industry in Asia (and
Resource-led development across space and time
Lars Bruno (
Economic instability and economic growth in
Ichiro Sugimoto (
2030-2130 Plenary Lecture (Penthouse A/B, CC)
Commercialization in Global Perspective, 800-1300
Richard Britnell (
Saturday 27 March 2010
0900-1045 Academic Session I (6 parallel sessions)
IA: Integrated Census Microdata (chair: Andrew Hinde) (Rm 228/229, Earth Sciences)
An overview of the I-CeM project
Kevin Schürer (
The work of the I-CeM project team
Edward Higgs (
Possibilities for new research based on I-CeM
Kevin Schürer & Edward Higgs (
IB: Industry (chair: Roger Middleton) (Rm 230, Earth Sciences)
'Made in
Francesca Carnevali (
Cross-border corporate cooperation, technology transfer and industrial development: evidence from the global rayon industry, 1900-40
Valerio Cerretano (
IC: Agriculture (chair: Richard Hoyle) (Rm 231, Earth Sciences)
Agrarian change and crisis in
Harry Kitsikopoulos (
Agriculture and community in Elizabethan
Jonathan Healey (University of Oxford)
Agricultural production and demography: the demographic response to local grain output in southern
Martin Dribe, Mats Olsson & Patrick Svensson (
ID: Occupational Structure (chair: Stephen Broadberry) (Ken Wade LT, Calman)
The occupational structure of
Leigh Shaw-Taylor (
By-employment and historical occupational structures in comparative perspective
Osamu Saito (
The value of geographical discrimination: the population of
Tony Wrigley (University of Cambridge)
IE: Discrimination and Tobacco (chair: Tim Hatton) (Kingsley Barrett, Calman)
Testing for wage discrimination in nineteenth-century
Joyce Burnette (
Piece-rates and prosperity: evidence from the late nineteenth-century tobacco industry
Maria Stanfors (
Alcohol, tobacco and intra-familial power structures
Beatrice Moring (
IF: Stock Markets (chair: Carsten Burhop) (Derman Christopherson, Calman)
The Bubble on the margins: The
Patrick Walsh (
Sibylle Lehmann (
The value of regulation and reputation: IPO survival in
Carsten Burhop (Max Planck Institute) & David Chambers (
1115-1300 Academic Session II (6 parallel sessions)
IIA: Mortality (chair: Richard Smith) (Rm 228/229, Earth Sciences)
‘Great mortality and pestilence, emptied, wasted, destitute and despoiled’: crisis or opportunity in late medieval
David Lewis
Plague in seventeenth-century
Guido Alfani (
The disappearance of adult smallpox in eighteenth-century
Romola Davenport (
IIB: The Romance of Jute (chair: George Peden) (Rm 230, Earth Sciences)
The decline of Jute and the de-globalization of Dundee
Jim Tomlinson (
Managing the introduction of competition into the Jute industry 1957-63
Carlo Morelli (
A woman’s industry? The role of women in the workforce of the
Valerie Wright (
IIC: European Growth before 1850 (chair: John Lyons) (Ken Wade LT, Calman)
British economic growth, 1300-1850: some preliminary estimates
Stephen Broadberry (University of Warwick), Bruce Campbell (Queen’s University Belfast), Alexander Klein (University of Warwick), Mark Overton (University of Exeter) & Bas van Leeuwen (University of Warwick)
Italian
Paolo Malanima (
The rise and fall of
Carlos Alvarez-Nogal & Leandro Prados de la Escosura (University Carlos III Madrid)
IID: Education (chair: Peter Howlett) (Derman Christopherson, Calman)
David Mitch (University of
Catch me if you can: education and catch-up in the industrial revolution
Erik Hornung, Ludger Woessman (
IIE: Institutions and Shipping (chair: Knick Harley) (Kingsley Barrett, Calman)
Public service and private trade in the early modern
Maria Fusaro (
Russian port customs, Anton Chekhov and Maris Vagliano, the ‘Emperor’ of
Gelina Harlaftis (
Government and the British shipping industry in the 1960s and 1970s
Sarah Palmer (
IIF: Money (chair: Paolo di Martino) (Rm 231, Earth Sciences)
Good or bad money? A comparative analysis of debasement in the late middle ages
David Chilosi & Oliver Volckart (
Sugar and metals as commodity money in colonial Brazil
Fernando Lima (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)
The retirement of sterling as a reserve currency after 1945: lessons for the US dollar?
Catherine Schenk (
1415-1600 Academic Session III (6 parallel sessions)
IIIA: British Historical Statistics (chair: Roger Middleton) (Ken Wade LT, Calman)
Introduction to the British Historical Statistics project
Roger Middleton (
Richard Sutch (
Medieval/early modern statistics
Nigel Goose (
Modern statistics
Michael Turner (
IIIB: Business Organisation (chair: Valerio Cerretano) (Rm 230, Earth Sciences)
Between commercial law and company rules: the ownership and control of modern Portuguese corporations, 1850-1914
Jaime Reis (
From public to private: Fascist privatization in 1920s
Germà Bel (
IIIC: Land (chair: Steve Hindle) (Rm 231, Earth Sciences)
The market in freehold land 1300-1500: the contribution of feet of fines
Margaret Yates (
The other rural relationship: labour
Richard W Hoyle (
Was land reform necessary? Access to land in
Juan Carmona Pidal & Joan R Rosés (University Carlos III Madrid)
IIID: Gendering Labour Markets in 18th- and early 19th-century
(chair: Jane Humphries) (Derman Christopherson, Calman)
Men’s unemployment and job opportunities for women: an analysis of the 1834 Poor Law Report
Chiaki Yamamoto (
Service, gender and wages in
Jacob F Field (
Marital status and economic activity: interpreting spinsters, wives and widows in pre-census population listings
Amy Erickson (
IIIE: Development of Economic History (chairs: Peter Kirby & Chris Godden) (Kingsley Barrett, Calman)
W.J. Ashley 1860-1927: from historical economics to economic history
Keith Tribe (
The International Economic History Association: world congresses and Cold War legacies
Maxine Berg (
Theory and fact in the practice of economic history in
John S Lyons (
IIIF: Finance (chair: Anne Murphy) (Rm 228/229, Earth Sciences)
The profits and pitfalls of lending to the king: the Frescobaldi of
Tony Moore (
Financial intermediation and late development: the case of Meiji
John Tang (
Sunday 28 March 2010
0915-1015 Academic Session IV (6 parallel sessions)
IVA:
An income-based estimate of Gross Domestic Product for all-Ireland in 1901
Jason Begley (
Estimates of Regional GDP (GVA) in the United Kingdom 1901-2001
Frank Geary & Thomas Stark (
IVB: Miners (chair: Jim Tomlinson) (Rm 230, Earth Sciences)
‘Saint Monday’ and the miners, 1775-1864
Peter Kirby (
Jim Phillips (
IVC: Interwar
That’s the way the money goes: expenditure smoothing and household budgeting in interwar Britain
Peter Scott & James Walker (
Innovation, industrial competitiveness and British regions in the interwar period
John Cantwell (
IVD: Colonies (chair: Guillaume Daudin) (Derman Christopherson, Calman)
Colonies, copper and economic development in Britain, 1680-1720
Nuala Zahedieh (
Heart of darkness: did French colonial investment pay, 1919-39?
Muriel Konczyk & Antoine Parent (
IVE: Real Wages (chair: Joyce Burnette) (Kingsley Barrett, Calman)
Jean-Pascal Bassino (
Squeezing the lemon: labour conflict and real wages in the Basque Country, 1900-30
Juan Carlos Rojo Cagigal & Stefan Houpt (University Carlos III Madrid)
IVF: Human Capital (chair: Paul Sharp) (Ken Wade LT, Calman)
The child quantity-quality trade-off: evidence from the population history of
Jacob Weisdorf & Marc Klemp (
Infant mortality and the health of survivors:
Timothy J Hatton (
1045-1145 Academic Session V (6 parallel sessions)
VA: Globalisation (chair: Jacob Weisdorf) (Ken Wade LT, Calman)
World and national wheat market integration in the nineteenth century: a comovement analysis
Martin Uebele (
The strange birth of liberal
Markus Lampe (University Carlos III Madrid), Ingrid Henriksen & Paul Sharp (
VB: Nineteenth-Century
Canals, rivers, and the industrial city:
Peter Maw (
Migration, economic development and human capital in early Victorian England
Peter Kitson & Jelle van Lottum (
VC:
Jorge Ortuño Molina (
Are interlocking directorates good for your growth?
Martin Ivanov (
VD: Institutions and Exchange (chair: Helen Paul) (Derman Christopherson, Calman)
Death, debt and labour: slavery as a form of exchange
Judith Spicksley (
The rise of Europe and Atlantic trade: did institutions do it?
Guillaume Daudin (
VE: Credit and Debt (chair: Paolo di Martino) (Kingsley Barrett, Calman)
The grand palladium of public credit: the Bank of
Anne L Murphy (
Portuguese public debt and financial business
Maria Eugénia Mata (New
VF: Stature (chair: Bernard Harris) (Rm 228/229, Earth Sciences)
Stephen Morgan (
1145-1300 Tawney Lecture (Rosemary Cramp, Calman)
Children of the Revolution: Child Labour in British Industrialization
Jane Humphries (