Dear EBHS 2013 Conference Participants, Welcome to Baltimore for Our 38Th Annual Conference
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Dear EBHS 2013 conference participants, Welcome to Baltimore for our 38th annual conference. This year’s program is notable for both quality and quantity, with almost ninety papers, which fit together remarkably well into almost thirty panels. We are thrilled to have Louis Galambos, Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University, to deliver the keynote address. And this may be the first time we’ve ever met in a former Masonic temple. Baltimore is a perfect locale for an economic and business history conference. As a port city on the Chesapeake Bay, Baltimore was one of the most economically vital cities in America’s early history. By 1830 it was second only to New York in population. The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad launched America’s railroad revolution. The city’s rapid rise as a center of manufacturing and commerce aided its rise as a cultural and educational center, thanks in part to local businessmen-philanthropists like Enoch Pratt, William Thompson Walters and his son Henry, and Johns Hopkins. Like many industrial American cities, Baltimore fell on hard times in recent decades and has tried with varying degrees of success to revitalize itself with public-private partnerships, such as the Inner Harbor and Oriole Park at Camden Yards, and reorient its economy toward the professions, notably higher education and medicine. If you want to explore the city from the hotel, your best bet is probably North Charles Street. Walking south will quickly take you to the Inner Harbor. The water taxis there are an inexpensive way to get on the bay and possibly visit one of Baltimore’s historic neighborhoods like Little Italy or (my favorite) Fells Point. Some of us will make that walk on Friday afternoon, for our guided tour of Oriole Park at Camden Yards. An easier walking option is to go north on North Charles Street, which will almost immediately put you in the Mount Vernon Cultural District, an attractive shopping, dining, and sightseeing area. You will notice helpful signs and plaques by some of the buildings, which give information about each site and provide a map of an excellent tour of the district. Among the landmarks I suggest you not miss are the Walters Art Museum, the Washington Monument (which predates the one in Washington, DC), the Basilica of the Assumption, and the Belvedere Hotel. Lexington Market, which dates back to 1782 and is about four blocks west of the Tremont Grand, is a must if you are curious to try Baltimore seafood. Of the many food options there, I particularly recommend the crab cakes at Faidley’s. (Note: The market is only open until six. For further recommendations, please see my Baltimore guide on the EBHS website.) Planning this conference has been infinitely easier thanks to the other EBHS trustees, especially Jari Eloranta, Dan Giedeman, Jason Taylor, and Olli Turunen. Thanks also to Program Chair Duncan Philip Connors and our panel chairs and discussants. Thank you for coming to EBHS 2013. I hope you have a great time and join us next year in Manchester. Ranjit Dighe, EBHS President Acknowledgements Facilities The third floor of the Tremont Grand Historic Venue will be conference central. Thanks to our benefactors The registration table, book displays, and coffee breaks will be in the third floor lobby. The panels will be in the Veterans Room, the Tuscan Room, and the State University of New York at Oswego: Office of the Provost Composite Room. The member business meeting will be in the Composite Room. The University of Buckingham The Tremont Grand conference center is connected to the Tremont hotel via a walkway. The walkway connects the fifth floor of the hotel to the second floor of the conference center. From anywhere in the hotel, take the hotel elevators to the fifth Thanks to our vendors floor and exit to the right. Follow the walkway to the second floor of the Grand. From the second floor take the elevators to the third floor. Cambridge University Press Thursday’s reception will take place on the second floor’s open area, La Strada. Tuesday’s trustees meeting is also on the second floor, in the Boardroom. The Johns Hopkins University Press Friday’s banquet is a plated dinner in the Oriental Room on the fourth floor. The Liberty Fund Pickering & Chatto The third floor of the Tremont Grand The University of Chicago Press Thanks also to Professor Louis Galambos SUNY Oswego Office of Publications SUNY Oswego Technology Support Center Lauren Flaig and Sharon Tietjens of the Tremonts Bob Cooney and Sue Ellen Hickman of the Baltimore Orioles Front Office d. Morales of Visit Baltimore Tim James and Christine Magruder 2 3 2013 Conference at a Glance 2013 Conference at a Glance FRIDAY, MAY 24 Registration 8:00 AM – 4 PM Session 6 8:00 – 9:30 AM Panels 6A, 6B, 6C THURSDAY, MAY 23 Session 7 9:45 – 11:00 AM Friday Registration 7:45 A.M. – 4 P.M. Panels 7A, 7B, 7C Session 1 8:00 – 9:30 A.M. Session 8 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM Panels 1A, 1B and 1C Panels 8A, 8B, 8C Session 2 9:45 – 11:15 AM Lunch break 1:00 – 2:00 PM Panels 2A, 2B, 2C Tour: Oriole Park at Camden Yards 2:00 – 3:30 PM Session 3 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM Open to all who prepaid for this with their registration. Panels 3A, 3B, 3C Be sure to allow half an hour each way between the Tremont and the ballpark. Lunch break 1:00 – 2:00 PM Member Business Meeting 4:45 – 5:45 PM Open to all EBHS members. Session 4 2:00 – 3:30 PM Panels 4A, 4B, 4C Banquet and Keynote Address 6:00 – 9:00 PM Open to all paid registrants. Session 5 3:45 – 4:45 PM Teaching Roundtable Board of Trustees meeting 4:45-5:45 PM SATURDAY, MAY 25 Registration 8:00 – 11:30 AM Reception 5:45-7:00 PM Open to all attendees and their guests. Session 9 8:00 – 9:30 AM Panels 9A, 9B Session 10 9:45 – 11:15 AM Panels 10A, 10B Session 11 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM Panels 11A, 11B 4 5 Thursday, May 23 Thursday, May 23 — session 1 — 8:00 – 9:30 a.m. — — session 2 — 9:45 - 11:15 a.m. — Panel 1A — Veterans Room Panel 2A — Veterans Room Imperial Mischief Entrepreneurs Chair-Discussant: Simone Selva, German Historical Institute Chair-Discussant: David Sicilia, University of Maryland, College Park “Banking on Empire”: Decisions and Decision Makers in Britain’s Post-War Colonial Arthur George Gaston, “Entrepreneur of the Century” Development Planning, 1939 – 1954 Michael Boston, State University of New York at Brockport Billy Frank, University of Central Lancashire William Hulbert and the Birth of the Business of Professional Baseball “For I scorn to do anyone a mischief, when it is not for my advantage”: Michael Haupert, University of Wisconsin — La Crosse The Relationship Between Pirates, Colonists, and Illicit Trade Dwarkanath Tagore as a Pioneering Entrepreneur and His Use of the Integrated Jamie LH Goodall, Ohio State University Marketing Approach Inside the Numbers: Using Private Commercial Data to Analyze East African Abhijit Roy, University of Scranton Imported Soap Consumption, 1870 – 1914 Laird Jones, Lock Haven University Panel 1B — Tuscan Room Panel 2B — Tuscan Room Colonial and Early America Human Capital, Inequality, and Mobility Chair-Discussant: Fred Gates, Southwest Oklahoma State University Chair-Discussant: David Mitch, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Additional Discussant: Shakuntala Das, State University of New York at Oswego The Celebrated Dugald Stewart Came to Call: Moral Philosophy and Francis Cabot Lowell’s “System” Measuring the Financial Status of Women, 1950 – 2010 Peter Hohn, University of California, Davis Sally Clarke, University of Texas at Austin Deep in the Heart of Taxes: Cash, Its Scarcity and Importance to Suppliers and Wealth Disparities Within an Indian Reservation: The Role of Culture Laborers in the 18th Century Mid-Atlantic Matthew T. Gregg, Roger Williams University Michael V. Kennedy, High Point University The Bracero Program and Effects on Human Capital Investments in Mexico, 1942 – 1964 From Partisan Banking to Open Access Edward Kosack, University of Colorado Boulder Qian Lu & John Wallis, University of Maryland, College Park Panel 1C — Composite Room Panel 2C — Composite Room Joint-Stock Commerce in the Political Economy Public Goods and Spillovers of Early Modern Britain Chair-Discussant: Erik Benson, Cornerstone University Chair-Discussant: Santhi Hejeebu, Cornell College Military Spending and Growth: The Role of Institutions In House Counsel: Balancing Law and Trade Within the Early Eighteenth-Century Ryan Compton, University of Manitoba, & Bryan Paterson, Royal Military College of Canada East India Company Politics, Public Infrastructure and Economic Growth: An Examination of the A. Mitchell Fraas, University of Pennsylvania Interstate Highway System Trade Is War? Violence in the Anglo-Dutch Commercial Rivalry in West Africa, Dustin Frye, University of Colorado Boulder 1689 – 1700 Open Technology Practices and Founders of the Early Airplane Industry Matthew D. Mitchell, University of North Carolina Peter Meyer, Bureau of Labor Statistics The Early Modern English Corporation as a Vessel for Dialogue About Governance William A. Pettigrew, University of Kent 6 7 Thursday, May 23 Thursday, May 23 — session 3 — 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. — — session 4 — 2:00 – 3:30 p.m. — Panel 3A — Veterans Room Panel 4A — Veterans Room Family and Finance in the 19th Century Sweets from a Stranger: Cocoa, Sugar, and Trade Chair: Josephine Maltby, University of York; Discussant: Julie Still, Rutgers University Chair-Discussant: Mike Haupert, University of Wisconsin — La Crosse Saving Behaviours for Old Age in 19th and Early 20th Century Sweden The Transformation of International