Graduate Workshop on the Political Economy of Empire

 

The Beves Room, King’s College, Cambridge

4 November 2006

 

9:00 – 9:30      Arrival and Coffee

 

09:30-12:00     Panel I            Theorising the Early Modern Empire

Moderator: Dr. Richard Drayton

 

Pernille Røge, Cambridge

The Physiocratic Vision of Colonial France after the Seven Years War: Empire as Symbiosis?

Thomas Hopkins, Cambridge

Colonies and the Natural Order: Modelling Colonial Development in Adam Smith's Political Economy

 

Doohwan Ahn, Cambridge

Europe or America? The Economic Dimension of the Whig Split of 1717

 

Discussion

 

12:15-13:15     Lunch

 

13:30-16:00     Panel II          Imperial Experiences

            Moderator: Dr. Gabriel Paquette

 

Giles Parkinson

War and Peace in the early stock market 

 

Claire Levenson, Cambridge

The Impact of Gifts and Trade: the Georgia Colonists and the Yamacraw Indians in the Colonial American Southeast

 

James Lees, London: 

Retrenchment, Reform and the Practice of Military-Fiscalism in the early East India Company State

 

Discussion

 

16:00-16:30     Coffee Break

 

16:30-19:00     Panel III        Countervailing Empires

            Moderator: Dr. Istvan Hont

 

Jan Hartman, Rotterdam

Premonitions of decline in Pieter de la Court's criticism of the Dutch East India Company

 

Sophus A. Reinert, Cambridge

Recipes for Empire: A Quantitative Analysis of Economic Translations in Europe, 1500-1849 

 

Concluding Discussion

 

20:00               Conference Dinner