EH.N: World Economic History Conference, Utrecht, Panel on Iberian Commerce

[Alexander Field]

(Jeremy Barkes has asked me to post this message - AF)
 
Dear All:

I have put together a panel for the World Economic History Conference
in Utrecht, Netherlands this August. The WEHC is an international
conference on economic history held every four years, and is always an
exceptionally exciting conference. 

http://www.wehc2009.org/programme.asp 

Unfortunately, the economic crisis has forced several of the
participants to withdraw at the last minute, and so I am seeking several
new participants. Please consider the panel title and description below
and email me if you would like to join us. I would very much like to
make this panel succeed despite the economic crisis.

Jeremy Baskes


The Iberian Transatlantic Commercial World in an era of Reform and War,
1750-1821
Date/Time: Tuesday, August 4, 2.00 PM – 5.30 PM

"Over the course of the eighteenth century, Spanish and Portuguese
colonial commerce expanded rapidly with far reaching effects on the
region's economies and societies. In the second half of the century,
agents of the Spanish and Portuguese Crowns introduced political and
economic reforms designed to "modernize" their commercial systems. The
Bourbon and Pombaline reforms attacked vested interests, dismantled
long-standing institutions, and lifted barriers to trade, all with the
goal of boosting Crown revenues, expanding imperial commerce, and
reducing territorial and economic encroachments by foreign powers. The
resulting "golden era" was abruptly interrupted by the outbreak of the
Wars of the French Revolution and Napoleon and ultimately paved the way
for independence of most of the Latin American colonies. This panel
explores and assesses the wide ranging social, political and economic
economic effects of trade expansion, commercial reform and international
war on the Iberian transatlantic world of the late eighteenth century."





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Jeremy Baskes
Professor of History
Director, Latin American Studies
Ohio Wesleyan University
Delaware, Ohio 43015
740-368-3638
jabaskes at owu.edu