Session #1 Friday, Sept. 25, 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

1A. Was the Black Death an Economic Revolution?

• Greg Clark (University of California-Davis), "Microbes and Markets: Was the Black Death an Economic Revolution?"
• Stephen R. Epstein (London School of Economics), "The Late Medieval Crisis as an 'Integration Crisis'"
• Harry Kitsikopoulos (New York University), "The Impact of the Black Death on Peasant Budgets and Their Ability to Innovate"

1B. Property Rights and Distribution

• Mary Ann Fay and John Willoughby (Virginia Military Institute and American University), "Subordination through Exclusion: Women's Property Holdings in 18th Century Cairo"
• Elizabeth Herr (University of Colorado-Denver), "Women, Economic Opportunity and Wealth Accumulation Strategies in Frontier Colorado"
• Leigh Shaw-Taylor (Cambridge), "The Hammond-Neeson Thesis Revisited: Did Agricultural Laborers Have Common Pasture Rights?"

Friday, Sept. 25, 3:00 - 3:15 p.m.

Coffee Break

Session #2 Friday, Sept. 25, 3:15 pm - 5:45 pm

2A. Economic History and the Consumer

• Ann Carlos (University of Colorado) and Frank Lewis, "Native American Indians as Consumers, 1700-1770"
• Anne McCants (MIT), "Let them Drink Tea: The Consumption of Colonial Groceries Among the Amsterdam Kleine Burgereij"
• Martha Olney (University of California-Berkeley), "Consumerism: An Economist's Perspective"
• Lorena Walsh and Ann Martin (Colonial Williamsburg Foundation), "Reconstructing the Food Provisioning Systems in the Chesapeake"

2B. Governance and Economic Growth

• Tony Freyer (University of Alabama), "Did the Allied Occupation Transform Japanese Society?: Enacting the Antimonopoly Law of 1947 as a Case Study"
• Aurora G¢mez Galvarriato (Centro de Investigaci¢n y Docencia Econ¢micas), "The Impact of the Mexican Revolution on Real Wages and Productivity Levels of Industrial Workers"
• Steve Haber (Stanford University), "Political Stability and Economic Performance: Evidence from Revolutionary Mexico"
• Nathan Sussman and Yishay Yafeh (Hebrew University, Jerusalem), "Institutions and Country Risk: Evidence from Japanese Government Debt in the Meiji Period"

Friday evening

Reception on Duke University campus

Dinner on your own

Saturday, Sept. 26, 7:00 am - 8:15 am

Historians' Caucus Breakfast (registration in advance required)

Complimentary Coffee in the Lobby

Session #3 Saturday, Sept. 26, 8:15 am - 10:15 am

3A. Does Economics Explain Political Revolutions?

• Alan Dye (Barnard) and Richard Sicotte (University of Illinois), "US Tariff Policy and the Cuban Revolution: The Political Economy of Exporting Economic Instability"
• Helge Berger(Princeton University) and Mark Spoerer (University of Hohenheim (Germany)), "Not Ideas but Hunger: Revolution and Economy in 1848 Europe"
• Roger Ransom(University of California-Riverside) and Richard Sutch (University of California-Berkeley), "Conflicting Visions: The American Civil War as a Revolutionary Conflict"

3B. The Financial Pre-History of the United States

• David Cowen (New York University), "The First Bank of the United States: 'Central banking' and Credit Markets, 1791-1811"
• Winifred Rothenberg (Tufts University), "Mortgage Credit: A Proto-Capital Market in the Early Stages of Economic Development: Massachusetts, 1642-1770"
• Robert E. Wright (Temple University), "Two Ventricles of America's Early Financial Heart: Bank Lending in New York and Pennsylvania, 1781-1830"

Saturday, Sept. 26, 10:15 - 10:30 a.m.

Coffee Break

Session #4 Saturday, Sept. 26, 10:30 am - 12:30 pm

4A. The Industrial Revolution: Preconditions and Consequences

• Robert Allen (University of British Columbia), "The Great Divergence: Wages and Prices in Europe from the Middle Ages to the First World War"
• Margaret Jacob (University of Pennsylvania), "Scientific Culture in the Making of the Industrial West"
• Oliver Volckart (Max-Planck-Institute), "Stability and Change in the Premodern Economy and Society of Germany"

4B. Economic Development in the Nineteenth Century Cotton South

• Michael Gagnon (Emory University), "The Industrial Revolution in 19th Century Georgia: An Evolutionary Model of Textile Industrialization"
• Shepherd W. McKinley (University of Delaware), "The Revolution After the War: Workers, Managers, and Entrepreneurs in South Carolina's Phosphate Industry, 1867- 1900"
• Suzanne L. Summers (Texas A & M University-Kingsville), "The Economic Impact of Postbellum Political Revolutions: Reconstruction, Redemption, and Texas Cotton Merchants, 1865-1880"

Saturday, Sept. 26, 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm

Box lunch provided for everyone

Women's lunch (bring your box lunch) in Duke University Room

Saturday, Sept. 26, 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Business Meeting

Saturday, Sept. 26, 3:15 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.

Dissertation Session

Saturday, Sept. 26, 6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.

Cash Bar Reception on the Terrace

Saturday, Sept. 26, 7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.

President's Banquet and Awards Ceremony

Sunday, Sept. 27, 7:00 am - 8:15 am

Teaching Breakfast

Complimentary Continental Breakfast at Ambassador Ballroom

Session #5 Sunday, Sept. 27, 8:15 am - 10:15 am

5A. Immigration and Emigration Histories

• Raymond L. Cohn (Illinois State University), "Different or Simply More?: Comparing Colonial and Antebellum Immigration to the United States"
• Andrew Godley (University of Reading), "After the Pogroms: The Great Wave of Russian Jewish Emigration to the United States and the United Kingdom, 1880-1914"
• Drew Keeling (University of California-Berkeley), "Trans-Atlantic Migration and the Transportation Revolution, 1850-1914

5B. Technological Revolutions

• Alexander J. Field (Santa Clara University), "Telegraphic Transmission of Asset Prices and Orders to Trade: Implications for Economic Growth, Trading Volumes, and Securities Markets"
• Wayne A. Grove (Colgate University), "Postbellum Cotton Economy No More: A Chemomechanical Revolution Across the Pan-Continental Cotton Belt, 1949- 1964"
• Graeme J. Milne (University of Liverpool), "The Steam Revolution: Shipowning Strategies in mid-19th Century Liverpool"

Sunday, Sept. 27, 10:15 - 10:30 a.m.

Coffee Break

Session #6 Sunday, Sept. 27, 10:30 am - 12:30 pm

6A. Two Millennia of Legal and Contractual Innovations

• Farley Grubb (University of Delaware), "Statutory Regulation of Immigrant Labor Contracting: The Role of Legally Mandated Freedom Dues in Colonial American Servitude"
• David Stead (Oxford), "A General Theory of Enclosures"
• P. V. Viswanath (Pace University), "Agricultural Contracting in Roman Palestine: Risk Sharing or Moral Hazard?"

6B. Regions and Economic Development in North America

• Marilyn Gerriets (St Francis Xavier University (Nova Scotia)), "The Origin of the Hinterland: Agricultural Resources and Manufacturing Development at Confederation"
• Margaret Levenstein (University of Michigan), "Capital Markets and the Industrialization of the American Midwest: A Study of the Cleveland Stock Exchange"
• Paul Rhode (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill), "After the War Boom: Reconversion on the Pacific Coast, 1943-1949"