/Seminar Papers
Below you will find a table with links to the papers that will be presented during the most recent Economic and Social History Seminar series. The papers can be downloaded approximately one week in advance. Papers that were presented during previous seminar series can be found here.
For more information about the seminar series, please have a look at this page.
Fall 2017
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Title |
Speaker |
Date |
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The state, contested land and Islamic philanthropy in the shadow of sectarianism in Bahrain 1860-2016 |
Raj Brown (Royal Holloway, University of London) |
21/9/2017 |
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Terms of trade during the first globalization: an empirical analysis (with Giovanni Federico and Antonio Tena-Jungito) |
David Chilosi (LSE/ Groningen University) |
28/9/2017 |
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Daniel Raff (The Wharton School/ NBER) |
12/10/2017 |
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The colonial drain. Taxation, real wages, and households' living standards in the Dutch Empire, 1820-1913 |
Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk (UU) |
19/10/2017 |
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No seminar |
26/10/2017 |
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Can kings create towns that thrive? Long run consequences of town plantations on urbanization and agricultural surplus |
Kerstin Enflo (Lund University) |
2/11/2017 |
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The diversity of labor market institutions and entrepreneurship in Europe and the United States: past and present |
Selin Dilli (UU) |
9/11/2017 |
| Private money, public oversight. Orphan chambers of Holland in a European context |
Josje Schnitzeler (UU) |
16/11/2017 |
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Slavery, labour and debt servitude in the seventeenth-century Spanish Philippines |
Stephanie Mawson (University of Cambridge) |
23/11/2017 |
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The Great Depression in Africa |
Johan Fourie and Tim Ngalande (Stellenbosch University) |
30/11/ 2017 |
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Legacies of indirect rule? Native authority spending and local economic development in British Africa (with Leigh Gardner) |
Jutta Bolt (Groningen University) |
7/12/2017 |
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Female labour force participation of married women: the United States, 1860-2010 |
Richard Zijdeman and Auke Rijpma (IISH/ UU) |
14/12/2017: 12.45-14.15 |