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Centre for History and Economics 1991-2001 CENTRE FOR HISTORY AND ECONOMICS 1991-2001 1 CENTRE FOR HISTORY AND ECONOMICS 2 CENTRE FOR HISTORY AND ECONOMICS Contents page Introduction Research Programmes Nationalism Population and Security Economic and Social Security Poverty and Inequality Historical Political Economy Environmental Security Globalization in Historical Perspective Challenges to Democratic Politics Church and State Centre Research and Administrative Staff Students Prize students Affiliated students Colloquia Seminars History and Economics Nations, States and Empires Quantitative Economic History Research Publications Centre for History and Economics Working Papers Books 3 CENTRE FOR HISTORY AND ECONOMICS 4 CENTRE FOR HISTORY AND ECONOMICS Introduction he Centre for History and Economics was established at King’s College, Cambridge T in 1991 with a grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to promote research and education in fields of common importance for economists and historians, and to encourage collaboration between the two disciplines. Its aim is to provide a forum in which scholars can address some of their common concerns through the application of economic concepts to historical problems, through the history of economic ideas and through economic history. The Centre’s point of departure is fundamental research interests in the two disciplines. It also encourages the participation of economists and historians in continuing efforts to address issues of immediate and practical public importance, including economic security, poverty and inequality, political and economic nationalism, and globalization. The Centre hosts a number of conferences and colloquia each year. It supports a programme of pre- doctoral research and training in history and economics, and an annual competition, held in the spring, for History and Economics Prize Research grants. The Centre is currently supported by grants from the John D. and Catherine C. MacArthur Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Pew Charitable Trust, the Leverhulme Trust, the Isaac Newton Trust, and the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung. The offices of the Centre are at 3d King’s Parade, Cambridge, and the postal address is King’s College, Cambridge CB2 1ST. The web address is www.kings.cam.ac.uk/histecon. The two Directors are Emma Rothschild and Gareth Stedman Jones and Hans-Joachim Voth is Associate Director. The research fellows are Ananya Kabir (Clare Hall), Melissa Lane (King’s College), and Paul Warde (Pembroke College). The staff are Inga Huld Markan, Administrative Officer/Editorial Associate, Amy Price, Administrative Officer/ Computer Officer (on maternity leave from September 2000), Susanne Lohmann, Administrative Officer/Research Assistant, and Rosie Vaughan, Administrative Officer/ Research Assistant. The members of the History and Economics Executive Committee are Professor Sir A.B. Atkinson, Professor Nancy Cartwright, Professor Olwen Hufton, Professor Quentin Skinner, Professor Barry Supple, and Professor Sir E.A. Wrigley. 5 CENTRE FOR HISTORY AND ECONOMICS Research Programmes Nationalism In spring 1992, the Economic Theory and Nationalism programme was initiated, coordinated by Kaushik Basu, Centre for Development Economics at the Delhi School of Economics. As part of this, in the same year a project began on Religion and Identity in the Russian Federation, under the leadership of Sergei Panarin, at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. In January 1993, the National Identity project in Mongolia was initiated in cooperation with the Mongolian and Inner Asia Studies Unit, University of Cambridge, under the leadership of Caroline Humphrey. The project was concerned with the origins of national tensions in Inner Asia, and with policies to prevent the deterioration of these tensions into violent conflict. In December 1995 Caroline Humphrey visited Moscow to prepare a paper on international trade and the state in Russia, presented at the Centre in 1996. In May 1993, a colloquium on Nations, States, and the End of Empires was held at King’s College, Cambridge. Papers included Nick Stargardt (King’s College, Cambridge): Reinventing the Austro-Hungarian Empire? Karl Renner Otto Bauer and the Idea of the Multinational State; Emma Rothschild: Economic Internationalism in the 1790s, and Eric Hobsbawm provided remarks on Nationalism. Other participants included Naran Bilik, John Dunn (King’s College, Cambridge), Ernest Gellner (King’s College, Cambridge), Istvan Hont (King’s College, Cambridge), Caroline Humphrey, Catherine Merridale, Carlo Poni (University of Bologna) and Carl Tham (Swedish International Development Agency). In June 1993, a meeting was held on Nationalism and Religion at King’s College, Cambridge. This was organised in cooperation with the Commission on Global Governance (CGG). There were three sessions: Ethnic and Religious Conflicts; Conflict and Common Values; and What is to be done? Discussions were led by Ayesha Jalal (Columbia University) on South Asia, Caroline Humphrey on East Asia and Wangari Matthai (CGG) on Africa, and presentations were made by Mike Clough (CGG) and Emma Rothschild. Other participants included Patricia Hyndman, Sunil Khilnani (Birkbeck College, University of London), Rama Mani (CGG) and Sanjay Reddy. A report on this colloquium was prepared by Rama Mani. In March 1994, a colloquium on Nationalism and Commercialization in Mongolia and Inner Mongolia was held at King’s College, Cambridge. There were sessions on Linguistic Nationalism and Economic Development; and Japan, State Policy and Mongolia. Discussion was led by Naran Bilik, Uradyn Bulag (Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit, University of Cambridge) and Marohito Hanada (Prime Minister’s Office, Japan). Other participants included Douglas Galbi, Bair Gomboev (MacArthur Project, Russia), Tomochelor Hao (University of London), Jonathan Haslam (Corpus Christi College), Emma Rothschild, Meena Singh and Tsui Yen-hu (MacArthur Project, China). In 1994-1995, Ayesha Jalal researched Identity and related notions of sovereignty in South Asia, with special reference to Muslims. In June 1994 a two-day meeting was held on South Asia: Towards an Agenda for a Better Future at King’s College, 6 CENTRE FOR HISTORY AND ECONOMICS Cambridge, organised by Ayesha Jalal. Presentations made included Ayesha Jalal, Romila Thapar (Jawarhalal Nehru University) and David Washbrook (St Anthony’s College, Oxford): The Aftermath of Partition: Nationalism and Communalism, Centralism and Regionalism; Sumantra Bose (Columbia University): Kashmir; Tariq Banuri (Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan) and Shapan Adnan (Shomabesh Institute, Bangladesh): Environmental Concerns; Amartya Sen, Sugata Bose (Tufts University) and Rehman Sobhan (Centre for Policy Dialogue, Bangladesh): Economic and Social Security in South Asia; and Gayatri Spivak (Columbia University) and Farhad Karim (Human Rights Watch): Social Security for Subordinated Groups. [The South Asia meeting was followed up by a Common History project involving several South Asian countries, and expanding on the meeting themes. The project was coordinated by Ayesha Jalal, Jean Drèze and Romila Thapar, and involved the collaboration of at least one institute in each of the South Asian countries.] Two meetings were held to examine problems of language and transition in post- communist and post-colonial states. In May 1994, a meeting was organised by Catherine Merridale on Rewriting Russian History, held in King’s College, Cambridge. Presentations made included Catherine Merridale: Russian History, Russian Historians and the West; Sergei Panarin: The View from the Russian Side; and Douglas Galbi: Some Recent Experiences with Collaborative Work in Moscow. Other participants included Susan Bayly (Christ’s College, Cambridge), Ernest Gellner (King’s College, Cambridge), Paul Rosenberg (King’s College, Cambridge) and Emma Rothschild. This was followed in December 1995 by a meeting on History and Identity, held in King’s College, Cambridge, and organised by Catherine Merridale. The papers focussed primarily on one set of interlinked themes: the problems of post-colonial history, the issues raised by the exercise of patronage over emerging historical traditions, and the difficulties associated with inter-cultural misunderstanding. The titles of the papers were: Catherine Merridale: Language, Patronage and the Creation of Historical Paradigm; Catherine Hall (University of Essex): Thinking about colonial and post-colonial histories: the case of Jamaica; and Ayesha Jalal: The Muslim Individual and the Community in Islam in South Asia, c. 1857 to 1919. Other participants included Christopher Bayly 9St Catherine’s College, Cambridge), Sugata Bose (Tufts University), Istvan Hont (King’s College, Cambridge), Stephan Klasen, Sergei Panarin, Roberto Romani, Emma Rothschild, Jonathan Steinberg (Trinity Hall, Cambridge), Adam Tooze and Jay Winter (Pembroke College, Cambridge). In January 1995, Penguin India published Unravelling the Nation: Sectarian Conflict and India‟s Secular Identity. The book, edited by Kaushik Basu and Sanjay Subrahmanyam, brought together papers contributed to the Nationalism programme since 1993. The essays were written around the problems inherent in notions of community and nationalism in India, and there were contributions by G. Balachrandan (Delhi School of Economics), Alaka Basu (Cornell University), Veena Das (Delhi School of Economics), Sudhir Kakar and Amartya Sen. In 1996, Sergei Panarin concluded his
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