Spring
Meeting of the Caltech Early Modern Group
Market and
Institutions in the Early Modern Period
Friday
May 22 2009
Both
sessions will take place in Baxter 315.
Coffee
and pastries 9-9:30
Morning
session: 9:30-11:45
Jean
Laurent Rosenthal
(Caltech)
Empire and its Alternatives,
chapters 1&7 of Political Economy and Growth in China and Europe since
Tamerlane. (Co-Authored with R. Bin Wong)
bibliography
Regina Grafe
(Northwestern)
Power, Legitimacy and
the Historical Territories chapter 2 of Distant Tyranny.
Lunch 12:30 : location patio in front of 315
Afternoon
session 2:00-5:00
Greg
O’Malley (UC Santa Cruz)
Networks
in the Slave Trade in Colonial America
Florian
Ploeckl (Yale)
The
Zollverein and the Formation of a Customs Union
Dan Klerman
(USC)
Legal Fictions in English
Legal History
Dinner : West Room at The
Athenaeum
Note: Philip Hoffman will be away in Chicago so he will not present his paper.