Editors' Note

2006 ECONOMIC HISTORY ASSOCIATION MEETINGS

The editors and the Association wish to thank all those who were program committee members, chairs, discussants, dissertation conveners, local arrangements committee members, and the meetings coordinator.

• Jeremy Atack, Vanderbilt University
• Martha J. Bailey, University of Michigan
• Ann Carlos, University of Colorado
• Elizabeth Cascio, Dartmouth College
• Siddharth Chandra, University of Pittsburgh
• Latika Chaudhary, Hoover Institution
• Greg Clark, University of California, Davis
• Karen Clay, Carnegie Mellon University
• Peter Coclanis, University of North Carolina
• Bill Collins, Vanderbilt University
• Metin Cosgel, University of Connecticut
• Lee Craig, North Carolina State University
• Maurcio Drelichman, University of British Columbia
• Price Fishback, University of Arizona
• Hank Gemery, Colby College
• Michael Haines, Colgate University
• Gillian Hamilton, University of Toronto
• Chris Hanes, State University of New York, Binghamton
• Zeynep Hansen, Washington University, St. Louis
• Michael Haupert, University of Wisconsin, La Crosse
• William Hausman, College of William & Mary
• Paul Hohenberg, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• Ryan Johnson, Brigham Young University, Idaho
• Shawn Kantor, University of California, Merced
• Zorina Khan, Bowdoin College
• Mackenzie Knowling, Lake Forest College
• Sumner La Croix, University of Hawaii
• Marc Law, University of Vermont
• Gary Libecap, University of California, Santa Barbara
• Mary MacKinnon, McGill University
• John Majewski, University of California, Santa Barbara
• Robert A. Margo, Boston University
• Graciela Marquez, El Colegio de Mexico
• Joseph Mason, Drexel University
• Anne McCants, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Joel Mokyr, Northwestern University
• Chiaki Moriguchi, Northwestern University
• John Murray, University of Toledo
• Johathan Pritchett, Tulane University
• Paul Rhode, University of North Carolina
• Hugh Rockoff, Rutgers University
• Joshua Rosenbloom, University of Kansas
• Elyce Rotella, Indiana University
• Peter Rousseau, Vanderbilt University
• Carol Shiue, University of Colorado
• Richard H. Steckel, The Ohio State University
• Richard Sylla, New York University
• Peter Temin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Melissa Thomasson, Miami University
• Werner Troesken, University of Pittsburgh
• Carolyn Tuttle, Lake Forest College
• Marc Weidenmier, Claremont McKenna College
• Robert Whaples, Wake Forest University
• Gavin Wright, Stanford University

2007 ECONOMIC HISTORY ASSOCIATION MEETINGS 6–9 SEPTEMBER 2007

The sixty-seventh annual meetings of the Economic History Association will be held at the Sheraton Austin Hotel, Austin, Texas, 6–9 September 2007. The theme of the meetings is “Space and Place in Economic History.” The preliminary program follows:

Friday

PANEL 1a: LABOR MARKETS IN TIME AND SPACE

• Thomas Cvrcek, Vanderbilt University, “Mothers, Wives, and Workers: The Dynamics of White Fertility, Marriage, and Women's Labor Supply in the United States, 1870–1930”
• Stacey Jones, University of Seattle, “From Coeds to Careers: Social Norms and the Unexpected Transformation of Women's Higher Education”
• James Roberts, Northwestern University, and Aaron Sojourner, Northwestern University, “Spatial Relations in U.S. Strike Activity, 1881–1894”
• Michael Huberman, Université de Montréal, and Christopher M. Meissner, University of Cambridge, “Are Your Labor Standards Set in China? Evidence from the First Great Wave of Globalization, 1870–1914”

PANEL 1b: CLASS AND RACE IN TIME AND SPACE

• Leah Platt Boustan, University of California, Los Angeles, “Flight from the City: The Role of Suburban Political Autonomy and Public Goods”
• William J. Collins, Vanderbilt University and NBER, and Robert A. Margo, Boston University and NBER, “The Economic Aftermath of the 1960s Riots: Evidence from Property Values”
• Nathanial Baum-Snow, Brown University and NBER, “School Desegregation, School Choice, and Urban Population Decentralization”
• Robert C. H. Sweeny, Memorial University of Newfoundland, “Spatial and Social Dynamics of Rentier Capital in an Industrializing Town: The Case of Nineteenth-Century Montreal”

Saturday

PANEL 2a: LOCATION, LOCATION, AND WELL-BEING

• Bas van Bavel, University of Utrecht, and Oscar Gelderblom, University of Utrecht, “Land of Milk and Butter: The Economic Origins of Cleanliness in the Dutch Golden Age”
• Louis P. Cain, Loyola University Chicago, Northwestern University, and Center for Population Economics, and Sok Chul Hong, University of Chicago and Center for Population Economics, “Survival in Nineteenth-Century Cities: The Larger the City, the Smaller Your Chances”
• Martha J. Bailey, University of Michigan and NBER, and William J. Collins, Vanderbilt University and NBER, “Demographic Effects of Household Electrification in the United States, 1925 to 1960”

PANEL 2b: EXTRACTIVE EXPORTS AND SOUTH AMERICA IN TRANSITION

• Catalina Vizcarra, University of Vermont, “Guano, Credible Commitments, and State Finances in Nineteenth-Century Peru”
• Richard Sicotte, University of Vermont, Catalina Vizcarra, University of Vermont, and Kirsten Wandschneider, Middlebury College, “Fertilizer, Fiscal Crises, and the War of the Pacific”
• Gail D. Triner, Rutgers University, “Mineral Rights and Industrialization: Iron Ore and the Brazilian State in the Twentieth Century”

PANEL 2c: CONQUERING DISTANCE

• George Grantham, McGill University, “What's Space Got to Do with It? Distance and Agricultural Productivity Before the Railway Age”
• Stephen Broadberry, University of Warwick, and Bishnupriya Gupta, University of Warwick, “Lancashire, India and Shifting Competitive Advantage in Cotton Textiles, 1700–1850: The Neglected Role of Factor Prices”
• Nicholas Crafts, University of Warwick, and Timothy Leunig, London School of Economics, “Transport Improvements, Agglomeration Economies and City Productivity: From When Did Transport Improvements Raise British Wages?”

PANEL 3a: THINKING ABOUT BOOKS

• James Green, Library Company of Philadelphia, “Book Trade and Industrial Organization in Federal America”
• Michael Winship, University of Texas at Austin, “Book Distribution in Late-Nineteenth-Century America”
• Daniel Raff, University of Pennsylvania, “The Book-of-the-Month Club: A Reconsideration”

PANEL 3b: GLOBALIZATION AND GEOGRAPHY

• Peter H. Lindert, University of California, Davis, Branko Milanovic, World Bank, and Jeffrey G. Williamson, Harvard University, “Pre-Industrial Inequalities: An Early Conjectural Map”
• Stefano Battilossi, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, “Where Did European Banks Go During the First Globalization? An Augmented Gravitational Approach to the Spatial Distribution of Multinational Banking”
• Gregg Huff, University of Glasgow, “Globalization and the Geography of Urbanization in the Resource Rich Tropics before World War II”

PANEL 3c: INVENTION, INNOVATION, AND INVESTMENT THROUGH SPACE AND TIME

• Ross Thomson, University of Vermont, “Networks, Communal Knowledge, and the Location of Invention in Antebellum America”
• Petra Moser, Stanford University and NBER, “Does Patenting Help to Diffuse Knowledge Spillovers? Evidence from the Geography of Nineteenth-Century Innovations”
• Caroline Fohlin, Johns Hopkins University, “The Geography of Venture Capital Development in Postwar America”

Sunday

PANEL 4a: MOBILITY AND INEQUALITY

• Jason Long, Colgate University, “Social Mobility Within and Across Generations in Britain Since 1851”
• Leonardo Monasterio, UFPel, and Eustáquio Reis, IPEA, “The Roots of Regional Inequalities in Brazil, 1872–1920”
• John Parman, Northwestern University, “The Expansion of Public Schools and Decline in American Mobility”

PANEL 4b: GLOBAL TRADE, EMPIRE, AND NINETEENTH-CENTURY MONEY

• Stephen Meardon, Williams College, and Treb Allen, Yale University, “Reciprocity in Retrospect: Progressive and Pernicious Bilateralism in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Trade Policy”
• David S. Jacks, Simon Fraser University, and Krishna Pendakur, Simon Fraser University, “Global Trade and the Maritime Transport Revolution”
• Kris James Mitchener, Santa Clara University and NBER, Marc Weidenmier, Claremont McKenna College and NBER, “Trade and Empire”

PANEL 5a: SPAIN THROUGH TIME: QUÉ PASA?

• Mauricio Drelichman, University of British Columbia and CIAR, and Hans Jochim Voth, Universitat Pompeu Fabra and CEPR, “The Sustainable Debts of Philip II: Revenues, Expenditures and Borrowing Costs of the Spanish Crown, 1560–1598”
• Joan R. Roses, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, and Blanca Sanchez-Alonso, Universidad San Pablo – CEU, “The Dynamics of Rural-Urban Labor Markets in Spain, 1850–1930”
• Daniel A. Tirado, University of Barcelona, Jordi Pons, University of Barcelona, Elisenda Paluzie, University of Barcelona, and Javier Silvestre, University of Zaragoza, “Migrants and Market Potential in Spain over the Twentieth Century: A Test of the New Economic Geography”

PANEL 5b: THE GREAT DEPRESSION ON THE MAP

• Kaj Tomsson, Yale University, and Alessandro Bonatti, Yale University, “Bargaining over a New Welfare State: A Model of the Regional Distribution of New Deal Funds”
• Joseph Cullen, University of Arizona, and Price Fishback, University of Arizona, “Did Big Government's Largesse Help the Locals? The Implications of World War II Spending for Local Economic Activity, 1939–1958”
• Gray Kimbrough, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, and Kenneth Snowden, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, “The Spatial Character of the Housing Depression and Recovery in the 1930s.”

ECONOMIC HISTORY SOCIETY ANNUAL CONFERENCE 28–30 MARCH 2008, UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM CALL FOR ACADEMIC PAPERS

The 2008 annual conference of the Economic History Society will be hosted by the University of Nottingham from 28 to 30 March 2008.

The conference program committee welcomes proposals in all aspects of economic and social history covering a wide range of periods and countries, and particularly welcomes papers of an interdisciplinary nature. Preference may be given to scholars who did not present a paper at the previous year's conference. Those currently studying for a Ph.D. should submit a proposal to the New Researcher session; please contact Maureen Galbraith ([email protected]) for further information.

The committee invites proposals for individual papers, as well as for entire sessions (three speakers, 1.5 hours duration). The latter should include proposals and synopses for each paper in the session, although the committee reserves the right to determine which papers will be presented in the session if it is accepted. If a session is not accepted, the committee may incorporate one or more of the proposed papers into other panels.

For each proposed paper, please send (preferably by e-mail) a brief c.v. and a short abstract (including name, postal and e-mail addresses) of 400–500 words to:

Maureen Galbraith; Economic History Society; Department of Economic and Social History; University of Glasgow; Lilybank House, Bute Gardens; Glasgow G12 8RT; Scotland, UK. E-mail: [email protected].

For full consideration, proposals must be received by 17 September 2007. Notices of acceptance will be sent to individual paper givers by 16 November 2007.

Should your paper be accepted, you will be asked to provide the following:

• A brief nontechnical summary of your paper for the “Media Briefings” section of the Society's website (by 4 January 2008).
• An abstract of the paper for inclusion in the conference booklet (by 4 January 2008).
• An electronic copy of your full paper, or a web address where the paper is available for consultation (by 3 March 2008).

It is the normal expectation that speakers who submit a proposal for a paper to the Conference Committee should be able to obtain independent financial support for their travel and conference attendance. However, a very limited support fund exists to assist overseas speakers who are unable to obtain funding from their own institution or from another source. Details of this fund and an application form can be obtained from the Society's administrative secretary, Maureen Galbraith ([email protected]). It is important that a completed application form is included with the paper proposal and the brief c.v. that are submitted to the conference committee for the September deadline. Only in exceptional circumstances will later applications for support be considered.