THE ECONOMIC HISTORY SOCIETY Annual Conference University of Cambridge 1 – 3 April 2011 Programme including New Researchers’ Papers & Abstracts of the other Academic Papers Contents Page no. Contents i Welcome to the University of Cambridge vii Summary conference programme viii Brief guide to conference arrangements x How to reach Robinson College xii College Plan xiv NEW RESEARCHERS’ SESSIONS I/A POLITICS AND THE ECONOMY IN 19TH AND 20TH-CENTURY BRITAIN 1 Agnes Simon The outsider as insider: foreign-born economic advisers in the first Wilson governments 1 2 Martin Earley Public social and welfare spending in the UK, 1830-1950: data, trends and explanations 6 I/B FISCAL AND MONETARY POLICY 1 Marie Fletcher An overview of the growth and economic effects of Estate Duty in Britain, part one, precedent taxes and genesis 12 2 Max Meulemann The restoration of the gold standard after the US Civil War: a volatility analysis 17 3 Stéphanie Collet A unified Italy? Sovereign debt and investor scepticism 24 I/C EARLY MODERN HISTORY 1 Jord Hanus Economic growth and living standards in the early modern Low Countries: the city of ‘s-Hertogenbosch, 1500-1650 34 2 Joseph Barker The emergence of agrarian capitalism in early modern England: a reconsideration of farm sizes 39 I/D PRE-COLONIAL AND POST-COLONIAL HISTORY 1 James Fenske Ecology, trade and states in pre-colonial Africa 47 2 Giulio Marchisio & Making history or history effects? British decolonization in Andrea Ruggeri sub-Saharan Africa 53 3 Oliver Vanden Eynde Military service and human capital accumulation: evidence from colonial Punjab 60 I/E WOMEN AND THE ECONOMY 1 Janet Casson Women and property reconsidered: new evidence on the ownership and leasing of land by women during the nineteenth century 67 2 Kajsa Holmberg The role of the firm in occupational feminization: the case of the Swedish commercial bank sector, 1865-1938 73 I/F TRADE 1 Chris Nierstrasz Monopoly and private trade: ‘rival empires of trade in the Orient’ revisited, 1600-1800 78 2 Emily Buchnea Trust and trade in the middle Atlantic: the Liverpool-New York merchant community, 1763-1833 84 3 Nan Li Commercialization as exogenous shocks: the effect of the soybean trade and migration in Manchurian villages, 1895-1934 89 II/A SCOTLAND 1 Tawny Paul Middling sort credit networks in Edinburgh, 1730-70 90 2 David Bradley The ‘steel unions’ and occupational health and safety: a developing collectivist ethos 96 3 Alexis Wearmouth The role of foreign investment in the development of the Calcutta jute industry: a case study of Thomas Duff & Co, 1874-1900 101 i Contents II/B INSTITUTIONS AND RULES 1 Chicheng Ma Do social norms reduce civil conflict? An empirical analysis of Confucianism on banditry in late Imperial China 107 2 Jordi Vidal-Robert War and inquisition: social control in the Spanish Empire 108 3 Helen Roberts Formal and informal networks in fifteenth-century Florence 116 II/C POST-SECOND WORLD WAR EUROPE 1 Tamás Vonyó Postwar reconstruction and the West German export miracle 123 2 Isabel Valente Calvet de Magalhães: Portugal and Europe 130 II/D LAND 1 Zoë Crisp The urban back garden in England in the long nineteenth century 135 2 Erik Hornung & Land ownership concentration and the expansion of Francesco Cinnirella education in nineteenth-century Prussia 142 II/E MANUFACTURING, PRODUCTIVITY AND VALUE-ADDED 1 Karol J Borowiecki Geographic clustering and productivity: an instrumental variable approach for classical composers 147 2 Ferdinando Giugliano Crisis? What crisis? New estimates of industrial value- added in Italy during the Great Depression 153 3 Giulio Marchisio Battleships and dividends: the development of private armaments companies in Great Britain and Italy, 1863- 1914 154 II/F MARRIAGE AND THE FAMILY 1 Ceri-Anne Fidler The impact of immigration upon family life: the case of Indian seafarers, c.1900-50 160 2 Andrew Wood Marriage and mobility: the marriage patterns of British generals, 1701-1815 165 3 Catherine Sumnall A reassessment of the relationship between late marriage, economic well-being and extra-marital fertility in the Gurk Valley, Austria, at the turn of the twentieth century 170 Academic Sessions – I/A TAXATION AND MEDIEVAL STATE FORMATION 1 Martin Allen The contribution of the English mints to government revenue, 1158-1544 177 2 Guillaume Sarrat de The battle of Patay (18 June 1429): some financial Tramezaigues considerations 178 3 Andrew Wareham The parameters of a tax state in late Anglo-Saxon England 178 4 Tony Moore The transition from a ‘domain state’ to a ‘tax state’ in thirteenth-century England: the example of Essex 179 I/B LONG-RUN ECONOMIC CHANGE IN ASIA 1 Stephen Broadberry & Indian GDP before 1870: some preliminary estimates and Bishnupriya Gupta a comparison with Britain 181 2 Tirthankar Roy Rethinking the origins of British India: state formation and military-fiscal undertakings in an eighteenth-century world region 181 3 Debin Ma Rock, scissors: the problem of incentives and information in the traditional China state and the origin of the Great Divergence 182 I/C INEQUALITY 1 Dave Postles Inequality of wealth in the early sixteenth century 183 ii Contents 2 Jordi Domenech Land ownership, inequality and rural unrest: evidence from the Latifundia regions of Spain before the Civil War 184 3 Guido Alfani Economic inequality in North Italy, c.1450-1750 185 I/D BUSINESS CYCLES IN THE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURIES 1 Vincent Bignon The vanishing impact of financial crises: fluctuations of the bankruptcy rate in France, 1820-1913 186 2 Matthias Morys & Business cycles in south-east Europe, 1870-2000 Martin Ivanov 186 3 Martin Uebele Identification of international business cycles in dis- aggregated data: Germany, France and Great Britain, 1862-1913 187 I/E BRITISH ECONOMIC THOUGHT AND POLICY 1 Neil Rollings Business and the rise of Neoliberalism in postwar Britain 190 2 Jim Tomlinson Popular understanding of the economy: British government and inflation in the 1970s 190 3 Christopher Godden Popular understanding of the economy: media, dependency theory and economic history, Britain 1919-39 191 I/F BIG SOCIETY 1 Nigel Goose Historical geography of philanthropy 193 2 Daniel Weinbren Mutual aid and the state 193 3 Kate Bradley The ‘big society’ and the National Citizen Service: young people, volunteering and engagement with charities in the twentieth century 195 4 Andrew Morris From the voluntary sector to the nonprofit sector: charities confront public contracting in the United States 196 II/A MEDIEVAL TRADE AND AGRICULTURE 1 Philip Slavin Fodder and fodder resources in late medieval English economy, c.1250-1450 198 2 Jeremy Edwards & What lessons can we draw from the Champagne Fairs? Sheilagh Ogilvie 198 3 Victoria Bateman Market integration and trade in the Mediterranean, 1500- 1900 200 4 Alexandra Sapoznik Driving factors behind medieval peasant agriculture 201 II/B ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL LIFE IN LONDON’S EASTERN SUBURB, C.1580-C.1700 1 Gill Newton Trades and handy labour: occupations in London’s growing eastern suburb to 1650 203 2 Mark Latham Landlords, leases and living conditions: property management and the development of St Botolph Aldgate 203 3 Philip Baker Parish nurses and their clients: the state of welfare provision in St Botolph Aldgate 205 II/C WORK AND AUTHORITY IN 18TH- AND 19TH-CENTURY BRITAIN (Women’s Committee Session) 1 Anne Murphy Time and work at the Bank of England 207 2 Margaret Makepeace The relationship between the East India Company and its London warehouse labourers, 1800-58 208 3 Helen Doe Power, authority and communications: the role of the master and the managing owner in nineteenth-century merchant shipping 209 II/D ITALIAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SINCE 1861 1 Alberto Rinaldi & Exports, growth and causality: new evidence on Italy, Barbara Pistoresi 1863-2004 210 iii Contents 2 Paolo di Martino & Law, firms’ governance and economic performance in post- Michelangelo Vasta 1945 Italy 211 3 Carlo Ciccarelli & Provincial aspects of industrial growth in post-unification Tommaso Proietti Italy: a sectoral analysis 212 4 Fabio Lavista & Sectoral specialization and firm size in Italy before and after Giandomenico Piluso stagflation, IRI, 1962-91 215 II/E LIVING STANDARDS 1 Stephen Thompson Measuring the national wealth in late eighteenth-century Britain 216 2 John Hatcher Unreal wages: problems with long-run standards of living and the ‘golden age’ of the fifteenth century 217 3 Tommy E Murphy, Latin American standards of living in global perspective: a Robert C Allen & first look at some cities from colonial times to the early Eric Schneider nineteenth century 218 4 Peter Wardley Arrested development? The welfare experience of British city dwellers in the century after 1840 219 II/F ECONOMIC HISTORY AND BUSINESS HISTORY 1 Steven Toms & Mutual contributions and future prospects John Wilson 220 2 Mark Casson Entrepreneurial failure and economic crisis: an historical perspective 221 3 Neveen Abdelrehim Political instability and stock market reaction: the Anglo- Iranian oil nationalization, 1951 221 III/A ELITE CONSUMERS, SPACES AND PRACTICES IN 18TH-CENTURY ENGLAND 1 Jon Stobart Luxury and country house sales in England, c.1750-1830 223 2 Mark Rothery The English country house, inheritance events and patterns of elite consumption: the Leigh family of Stoneleigh Abbey, 1730-1800 223 3 Ben Heller Recreational spending, taste, and milieu of the elite in London, c.1700-1820 224 III/B TRANSPORT AND DEVELOPMENT 1 Gareth Campbell, The media in a mania: newspaper coverage of the