2008-2009
All sessions of the Penn Economic History Forum, unless otherwise noted, will be held from 2-4PM in the Lea Library on the 6th Floor of the Van Pelt Library.
Co-Conveners:
Walter Licht (Department of History, University of Pennsylvania)
Daniel Raff (Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania)
October 3, 2008
Richard White, Margaret Bryne Professor of American History, Stanford University
“Kilkenny Cats: Transcontinental railroads, destructive competition, and the odd road to North American modernity”
November 7, 2008
Francesca Carnevali, Senior Lecturer in Modern History, University of Birmingham
“Communities of Interest. Social capital and trade associations in England and America in the late 19 th century”
December 5, 2008
Gavin Wright, William Robertson Coe Professor of American Economic History, Stanford University
"Economics and the Civil Rights Revolution."
January 23, 2009
Michael McCormick, Francis Goelet Professor of Medieval History, Harvard University
“Shipwrecks, markets and information in Mediterranean economy, ca. 300 to 1000”
February 13, 2009
Yanni Kotsonis, Associate Professor of Russian and European History, New York University
"The Old Regime and Economic Liberalism: Tax Reform and the Emergence of the Idea of an Economy in Nineteenth Century”
March 6, 2009
Andrew Godley, Professor of Management, University of Reading
'The Chicken, the Factory Farm, and the Supermarket: Technological Innovation and Vertical Restraints in Poultry Farming in Britain, Australia and the United States, 1950-1980”
April 3, 2009
Howell Harris, Professor of History, Durham University
“Inventing the U.S. Stove Industry ca. 1814-1875: Making and Selling the First Universal Consumer Durable”
