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2016 Conference Booklet THE ECONOMIC HISTORY SOCIETY Annual Conference Robinson College, Cambridge 1 – 3 April 2016 Programme including New Researchers’ Papers & Abstracts of the other Academic Papers Contents Page no. Contents i Welcome to Robinson College, Cambridge ix Summary conference programme x Brief guide to conference arrangements xii How to reach Robinson College, Cambridge xiv Campus Plan xvii NEW RESEARCHERS’ SESSIONS I/A THE MEDIEVAL ECONOMY Nicholas Meinzer Regional living standards and inequality in fifth – eighth century Alamannia 1 Nikita Dmitriev Foligno County (Umbria, Central Italy) in the long twelfth century, 1070s-1200: an outline of the economic transition 7 Bernadette McCooey The Icelandic livestock economy: challenging the traditional narrative 14 I/B STANDARDS OF LIVING Vincent Geloso Wages, income and living standards in French North America, 1688-1760 19 Matthew Pawelski Consumption, credit, and the standard of living: The case study of a Derbyshire lead miner, c.1789-91 25 Daniel Gallardo- A composite perspective on British living standards during the Albarrán industrial revolution 33 I/C CREDIT AND INSTITUTIONS IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY Christie Swanepoel Do secure property rights cause debt? Evidence from colonial South Africa 40 Üzeyir Serdar The British Consular of the Levant Company at Smyrna: Consul Serdaroğlu George Boddington and the Boddington Company in the Ottoman commercial-business system 46 Bora Altay Institutional commitment problems in the Ottoman Empire: the case of the Iltizam system 47 I/D FINANCE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT Cyril Milhaud Capital market integration in early modern Spain: A reconsideration 52 Pamfili Antipa & Monetary and fiscal policy in England during the French Wars Christophe Chamley 59 Jason Lennard & New money and credit aggregates for Ireland, 1840-1921: Seán Kenny construction and implications 65 Stuart Henderson Religion and development in post-famine Ireland 72 I/E INDUSTRY AND MANUFACTURING Giacomo Domini Patents, exhibitions and markets for innovation in the early twentieth century: evidence from Torino’s 1911 International Exhibition 79 Brian Varian The revealed comparative advantages of late-Victorian Britain 84 Kristin Ranestad The mining sectors in Chile and Norway, c.1870-1940: the development of a knowledge gap 90 Ewan Gibbs Confronting deindustrialization: economic change and cultural identities in the Scottish coalfields, c.1940s-1980s 97 I/F BUSINESS STRATEGIES AND REGULATION IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY Julia Chaplin ‘A great reversal not so much of business structure as of attitude’? The campaign behind the introduction of general limited liability in England 103 Jasper Kunstreich Who had the right to fail? Insolvency regulation in German i Contents entrepôts, 1850-70 108 Meng Wu Historical development of the Chinese Shanxi piaohao (remittance firms), 1823-1920 114 Shachi Amdekar The colony, the club and the corporation: The persistence of gentlemanly capitalist networks in India 121 I/G STOCK MARKETS AND CAPITAL INVESTMENT Michael Buchner The organization of stock exchanges from a property rights perspective: Berlin and London in comparison, c.1860-1914 126 Andreea-Alexandra British reserve? U.K. and German investments in sovereign Maerean debt, 1870-1913 132 Angela Bol Raising capital: laws, statutes and practices in German corporations, 1870-1930 138 Stefano Ungaro An inquiry on determinants of risk: the French money market, 144 1880-1914 I/H BANKING Flora Macher The causes of the Austrian Crisis of 1931 145 Miesje de Vogel A collective approach: Commonwealth central bankers and the Second World War 151 Linda Arch Competition law, competition policy, and the London clearing banks, 1946-79 156 Seung Woo Kim ‘Has the Euro-Dollar a future?’ The formative years of the Eurodollar market, 1959-64 161 II/A MEDIEVAL ECONOMY AND SOCIETY Robin McCallum Urban loans to the Crown and the growth of government in medieval England, 1307-51 166 Brenna Gibson Exploring the shipman’s basket of goods: using history and economics to understand our medieval maritime communities 171 Mingjie Xu A revolt of class struggle? Reflections on the causes of the 1381 Peasants’ Revolt 178 II/B INDUSTRY, WORK AND OCCUPATIONS Yasir Nawaz Land securities and industrial finance in seventeenth-century West Country: a new use of probate records 184 Hatice Yıldız Spinning places: women’s work and men’s work in the cotton and silk industries of Bursa and Bombay, 1850-1910 190 Sebastian Keibek The regional and national development of the male occupational structure of England and Wales, 1600-1820 195 II/C TRADE AND COMMERCIAL POLICY David Hope The fur trade and the metropolitan economy: the supply of commodity exports to the Hudson’s Bay Company during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries 203 Wolf-Fabian Germany’s extensive margin of trade, 1880-1913: A universe of Hungerland zeros 208 Thilo Albers The great trade bust: political frictions, physical frictions and the interwar distance puzzle 212 II/D FERTILITY AND MORTALITY Marijn Bolhuis & The unequal demographic transition: income inequality as a Sandra de Pleijt fundamental driver of the fertility decline 218 Jonathan Chapman Local government investment in urban infrastructure and mortality decline in England and Wales, 1861-1900 225 Jian Gao Famine and relief of 1958-61: A case study in Zhaitan village of Anhui Province of China 231 II/E INVESTMENT AND SHARES ii Contents Leentje Moortgat et Investor protection, taxation and dividend policy: Evidence from al. Belgium 1838-2012 235 Alexis Wearmouth A prosopographical study of directorial control and shareholdings in Dundee-owned jute mill companies operating in colonial Calcutta, 1874-1921 241 Amy Edwards Share-shopping over the counter: Thatcherism and the battle for the private investor, c.1972-88 247 II/F URBAN SOCIETY AND THE PUBLIC ECONOMY Sam Manning Cinema programming, audience preferences and entertainments duty in Belfast, 1948-61 252 Susan Gardiner Fostering ‘cost consciousness’ in infection control: The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, 1948-70 258 II/G POLITICAL ECONOMY AND FISCAL POLICY Matthew Fright What we count counts: The impact of attitude shifts in economic measurement during the 1930s 264 James Hillyer The fiscal revolution in America: a reinterpretation 269 Leonard Kukić Socialist growth revisited: insights from Yugoslavia 274 II/H TRADE AND CONSUMER CREDIT IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY Andrea Daniels Trade liberalization, crises, and historical links: A gravity analysis of Mexico’s historical trade flows, 1962-2011 282 Sergio Castellanos- The economic effects of the Consumer Credit Act 1974 Gamboa 288 New Researcher Posters 295 Academic Sessions – I/A MEDIEVAL ECONOMY OF ENGLAND Alexandra Sapoznik Bees in the medieval landscape: economy, technology and environment, 1000-1500 299 Martin Allen The first Sterling Area 299 Dave Postles Financial organization in English boroughs 300 Nick Amor What TNA CP 40 tells us about the medieval woollen cloth industry 301 I/B CREDIT, RISK AND LAW Stefania Montemezzo ‘All that glitters is not gold’: bankruptcies of Venetian firms in the Renaissance 306 Catia Antunes The Bankruptcy of Cunertorf, Snel, Janssen & Co, 1570-95 306 Magrit Schulte Risk and law in a colonial and globalizing world: the case of Beerbühl Mathias Giesque and the English bankruptcy law, c.1690-1706 307 Lisbeth Rodrigues Social capital and litigation: the case of the Misericórdia of Lisbon during the eighteenth century 307 I/C INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE IN THE LONG EIGHTEENTH CENTURY Dan Bogart ‘There can be no partnership with the king’: political instability and the English East India Company 309 Sean Bottomley Property rights and wardship in England, 1603-60 310 Ling-Fan Li The secondary market of English government debt in the late seventeenth century 311 Aaron Graham Credible commitment and the political economy of Jamaican finance, 1769-1839 312 I/D GROWTH AND INEQUALITY Christian Stohr Mountains, clusters, and cities: regional inequality in Switzerland, 1860-2008 314 Francisco J Beltrán Tracing the evolution of agglomeration economies: Spain, 1860- Tapia et al. 1991 315 Max-Stephan Schulze Empires diverging: A spatial analysis of Habsburg and German iii Contents & Paul Caruana Regional GDP, 1870-1910 316 Galizia Leandro Prados de la International inequality in living standards, 1870-2007 Escosura 316 I/E CAMERALISM IN PRACTICE Martin Seppel Cameralism: a success or failure of an economic thought? 318 Keith Tribe Baltic Cameralism 318 Göran Rydén Between the divine and the individual: eighteenth-century Swedish 318 iron making and layers of household practices I/F SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE Nicola Tynan et al. Who should own and control urban water systems? Disease and the municipalization of private waterworks in nineteenth-century England 319 Bernard Harris & Public works loans, social intervention and mortality change in Andrew Hinde England and Wales, 1850-1914 320 Lars Fredrik Voluntary or compulsory? Exploring dynamics of mutual Andersson & cooperative formation in Swedish health insurance at the turn of Liselotte Eriksson the twentieth century 320 John Taylor Surviving the war: the funding of British higher education in the First World War 321 I/G INDUSTRIAL CHANGE AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY Zhudyzbek The effectiveness of land reforms in traditional societies: Central Abylkhozhin & Asia in the 1920s Gani Aldashev 323 Jim Phillips Generation and changing economic order in the Scottish coalfields from the 1920s to the 1980s 324 Cristiano Andrea Saved by
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