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1999 Seminar Program


The sessions of the 1999 Atlantic History Seminar are listed below. Each presenter's name is linked to an abstract of the paper presented. A full list of Working Paper titles from the Seminars, arranged alphabetically by author, is also available.

[Please note that participants' affiliations are given as of the time of the Seminar and may have changed since then.]


Monday, August 9

Opening Reception and Dinner
Harvard Faculty Club

Tuesday, August 10

SESSION 1
9:30 a.m., Robinson Hall

Conceptualizing Atlantic Commerce
Chair: John J. McCusker, Trinity University, San Antonio

Daviken Studniki-Gizbert, Yale University
"1640 Revisited, or, How the Party of Commercial Expansion Lost to the Party of Political Conservation in Spain's Atlantic Empire, 1620-1650"

Paul Burton Cheney, Columbia University
"Mercantilism and Moeurs: Comparative History and Sociology in the Analysis of France's Overseas Trade, 1713-1748"

SESSION 2
2:00 P.M., Robinson Hall

Mechanisms of International Trade
Chair: John J. McCusker, Trinity University, San Antonio

Eric H. Ash, Princeton University
" 'A note and a Caveat for the Merchant': Mercantile Expertise in Elizabethan England"

Natasha Glaisyer, Cambridge University, England
"London's Royal Exchange, 1660-1750: The Trading World in Miniature"

Wednesday, August 11

WORKSHOP
10:00 a.m., Robinson Hall

The Problems of Money, Currency, and Exchange in the Early Modern Atlantic World
Chair: John J. McCusker, Trinity University, San Antonio

SESSION 3
2:00 p.m., Robinson Hall

Trade and Human Values
Chair: Peter C. Mancall, University of Kansas

Elvira Vilches, University of Milwaukee at Wisconsin
"Caribbean Exchanges and Colonial Economy, 1492-1510"

Gail D. Danvers, University of Sussex, England
" 'We must of course perish for want of subsistence': Iroquois Indians, Imperial Politics, and the Atlantic Economy"

Thursday, August 12

SESSION 4
9:30 a.m., Robinson Hall

The State in Seventeenth-Century Designs
Chair: Bernard Bailyn, Harvard University

Nuala Zahedieh, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
"The Meaning of Mercantilism and the Working of the Navigation Acts in the Seventeenth Century"

Michiel de Jong, Universiteit Leiden, The Netherlands
"The Role of the State in the Expansion of the Dutch Overseas Trade Networks, 1590-1630"

SESSION 5
2:00 p.m., Robinson Hall

Nationalism and Creole Resistance: English, Dutch, and Spanish
Chair: Bernard Bailyn, Harvard University

Claudia Schnurmann, Universität Göttingen, Germany
"Atlantic Trade via Supranational Networks in the Seventeenth Century"

Marie Duggan-Julca, New School for Social Research
"The China Trade That Never Was: Lost Profit Opportunity for Spain, Loss of Freedom for California Indians, 1630"

Friday, August 13

SESSION 6
9:30 a.m., Robinson Hall

Labor, Commerce, and Protectionism
Chair: Daniel Vickers, Memorial University of Newfoundland

Lawrence A. Peskin, Morgan State University
"Liberty and Protection: Popular Mercantilism in the First British Empire"

Ty M. Reese, University of Toledo
"Toiling in the Empire: Labor in Three Anglo-Atlantic Ports--London, Philadelphia, and Cape Coast Castle, 1750-1783"

April Lee Hatfield, Texas A & M University
"Mariners, Merchants, and Colonists in Seventeenth-Century English America"

Saturday, August 14

SESSION 7
9:30 a.m., Robinson Hall

The Vast Reach of Silver
Chair: John Womack, Harvard University

Gustavo L. Paz, Emory University
"Between the Atlantic and the Andes: Trade and Transportation in Late Colonial Argentina"

David John Weiland III, Utah State University
"Chinese Silk and European Textiles: Transatlantic Trade and the Parallel Crises of Europe and Mexico, 1571-1670"

Monday, August 16

SESSION 8
9:30 a.m., Robinson Hall

Atlantic Commerce and African Society
Chair: Joseph C. Miller, University of Virginia

Gloria Chuku, University of California, Los Angeles
"Women as Actors and Victims of the Slave Trade in Igboland, Nigeria"

Folasade Ifamose, University of Abuja, Nigeria
"The Indigenous Aristocracy, the Atlantic Trade, and the Gunpowder Economy"

SESSION 9
2:00 p.m., Robinson Hall

The Penetration of North American Products
Chair: Paul G. E. Clemens, Rutgers University

Brooke Hunter, University of Delaware
" 'The Whole System Hangs like a Cobweb': The Grain Trade in an Era of Revolution"

S. Max Edelson, College of Charleston
"Mastering the Market: Planters and Commodity Marketing in Charlestown, South Carolina, 1735-1785"

Tuesday, August 17

SESSION 10
9:30 a.m., Robinson Hall

Spain and the Power of Tobacco
Chair: Paul G. E. Clemens, Rutgers University

Marcy Norton, University of California at Berkeley
"The Business of Tobacco in the Spanish Empire, 1590-1636"

Laura Náter, El Colégio de Mexico
"Cuba and Tobacco in the Spanish Empire in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries"

Wednesday, August 18

SESSION 11
9:30 a.m., Robinson Hall

Spanish Regionalism and Atlantic Trade
Chair: Ida L. Altman, University of New Orleans

Regina Grafe, London School of Economics and Political Science
"American Trade and the Cantabrian Economy, 1550-1650"

Juan Carlos Sola Corbacho, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
"Home Markets in Spain and New Spain at the End of the Eighteenth Century"

Thursday, August 19

SESSION 12
9:30 a.m., Robinson Hall

The Role of Port Towns
Chair: Mark Peterson, University of Iowa

James Muir, York University, Canada
"The Strange Case of the Schooner Seaflower: Law and Business in Colonial Halifax, 1749-1764"

Sharon Yvonne Rodgers, Princeton University "Boston and the Atlantic World: One City's Dilemma"

SESSION 13
2:00 p.m., Robinson Hall

Imperial End Games: Transforming the Atlantic Economy
Chair: Bernard Bailyn, Harvard University

Malick Ghachem, Stanford University and Harvard Law School
" 'Between France and the Antilles': The Commercial Assimilation of the American Revolution in Saint-Domingue, 1784-1785"

Andrew Hamilton, University of Wisconsin at Madison
"Atlantic Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism: Anglo-American Theories of Trade and Empire in the 1780s"

SESSION 14
10:30 a.m., Robinson Hall

Closing Session

Members of the Seminar

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