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A reminder that travel grants up to $750 are available for research using the Duke University Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History’s collections. Up to three J. Walter Thompson Research Fellowships are also awarded. Fellows receive $1,000 stipends for a minimum of two weeks research at the Hartman Center focusing on the J. Walter Thompson Archives. Applications are due

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Given the theme of this year's Organization of American Historians meeting, "Frontiers of Capitalism and Democracy," it is not surprising that many topics of interest to the business history community will be represented there. The OAH is meeting, jointly with the National Council on Public History, on April 18-22, 2012, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The program, available as a PDF, does not contain

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Université Paris-I Panthéon Sorbonne will host an interdisciplinary conference on "State Resources and State Building in Europe: Taxation and Debt, 13th-18th Century" in Paris on July 2-3, 2012. Paper presenters are invited to address three major issues in comparative perspective: 1) Tax vs. loan or tax and loan? 2) Political regimes and public funding; 3) Primary and secondary markets for

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A partial listing of new and forthcoming books in business and economic history: Hartmut Berghoff and Uwe Spiekermann, eds., Decoding Modern Consumer Societies (Palgrave Macmillan, December 2011) Stanley L. Engerman and Kenneth L. Sokoloff,  Economic Development in the Americas since 1500: Endowments and Institutions (Cambridge University Press, November 2011) Louis Galambos, The Creative

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Researchers announced last month that they had been able to reconstruct some of the earliest sound recordings made by Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, and Emile Berliner, many of which are housed at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. Accounts of the details of the sound recovery project can be found on the Smithsonian blog, at its Newsdesk, which also provide sound

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The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, in cooperation with the Pierre du Bois Foundation, has issued a call for papers for a trans-disciplinary conference on "Government Debt Crises: Politics, Economics, and History," to be held at the Institute on December 15, 2012. The convenor is Marc Flandreau. The call for papers states, in part: The recent European debt

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A reminder that the German Historical Institute in Washington, D.C., offers a number of fellowships of interest to business and economic historians. These include Doctoral Fellowship in International Business History Fellowship in the History of Consumption Fellowship in Economic and Social History The application deadline for all of these grants is February 15, 2012.  Full information about the

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The November 2011 issue of Historically Speaking features a Roundtable on "The Early Modern Origins of Capitalism." Contents include Joyce Appleby, "The Cultural Roots of Capitalism" Hans L. Eicholz, "What's Left for Economics? A Comment on Appleby" Hendrik Hartog, "Comment on Appleby" Joyce Appleby, "Response" Full access to Historically Speaking requires a subscription, but short summaries

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The next workshop of the M6 Business History Group will meet on January 26, 2012, at Coventry University.  The theme will be "BusinessFirms’ Responses to Globalisation in Different Periods of History."    The title of the workshop indicates that a focus on how firms have either responded to globalisation or helped to make globalisation possible. Established scholars, post-doctoral researchers,

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The preliminary program for the 2012 BHC annual meeting has now been posted on the website. The meeting will be held at the Hyatt Regency Penn's Landing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on March 29-31. Note that the hotel reservation site, which must be accessed via the contact information at the "Hotel" link on our meeting page, is also in operation. Secretary-Treasurer Roger Horowitz will be

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The Society for Renaissance Studies, the Ashmolean Museum, and the Modern European History Research Centre at the University of Oxford are sponsoring a conference, "Early Modern Merchants as Collectors," which will meet at the Ashmolean on June 15-16, 2012. As the organizers explain, "This interdisciplinary conference will explore early modern merchants as collectors across a wide range of

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The Gilder Lehrman Institute each year offers a series of Summer Seminars for Teachers, week-long sessions taught by distinguished faculty. Full-time K-12 teachers, as well as National Park Service (NPS) interpreters and museum educators are eligible to apply. Community College faculty are eligible to attend high-school-level seminars. Recent graduates of education and history programs at the

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The Journal of Historical Research in Marketing invites submissions for a special issue focused on “Italian Marketing History,” to be guest edited by Jonathan Morris. The call for papers states: Several overarching themes are planned including historical studies of marketing within Italy and the ways in which Italy has been marketed beyond the country’s borders, the emergence of new

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The October 2011 issue of the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era devotes itself to booms and busts in the Gilded Age, particularly the Panic of 1873, which the editor characterizes as perhaps "the least understood major episode in the history of American political economy." For a brief period, all the articles are freely available from the journal's website. Contents include: Scott

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The annual Cliometric Society conference in 2012 will be held on the weekend of Friday, May 18 through Sunday, May 20 at Westward Look, Tucson, Arizona, and hosted by the University of Arizona and the National Science Foundation.    The conference is designed to provide extensive discussion of new and innovative research in economic history. The papers selected for presentation and discussion

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A few weeks ago, we mentioned the Echoes blog at Bloomberg.com, which Stephen Mihm of the University of Georgia has retooled to "unearth parallels between past and present, highlighting how the economic crises of our own era are perhaps not as unique as we think." Since its revamping, the blog has published numerous essays by members of the business history community, including: Sean Vanatta,

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The Centre for Business History at Copenhagen Business School is hosting a workshop on January 12-13, 2012, on "The Invention of Choice: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives on Markets, Democracy, and Power." As organizer Stefan Schwarzkopf explains, The aim of the workshop is to problematize the notion of “choice” from various historical and theoretical perspectives. Rather than asking

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Debtor Nation: The History of America in Red Ink (Princeton University Press, 2011), by Louis Hyman, has been listed as one of Choice's top 25 academic books of the year. Readers can find on-line reviews of the book here and here. Hyman discusses the book in the Chronicle of Higher Education Review and can be heard discussing it with Marshall Poe at "New Books in History." He also contributed a

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The International Joseph A. Schumpeter Society will hold its next biennial conference at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, on July 2-5, 2012. The theme of the meeting will be "Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Competitive Processes in Complex Economic Systems." According to the call for papers: Although the Conference is open to submissions in all areas of evolutionary

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The Z. Taylor Vinson Collection at the Hagley Library is one of the largest public collections of automotive trade catalogs and ephemera in the world. The collection covers the history of transportation with a primary focus on the automobile industry from 1891 to the present. The physical collection numbers approximately 67,000 items (700 cubic feet). The collection is currently being

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Marshall Plan poster, 1950 The German Historical Institute (GHI) in Washington, D.C., with funding from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, has launched a new website on the topic TransatlanticPerspectives: Europe in the Eyes of European Immigrants to the United States,1930-1980. The website is an outlet for a four-year research project that explores the role of European

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The SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) Historical Society has just posted a new on-line gallery, "Chasing the Devil around the Stump: The SEC and the Courts," curated by Kurt Hohenstein of Winona State University. As the exhibit introduction explains, After the stock market crash of 1929, as the regulation of securities became more complex with the passage of the Securities Acts of the

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Over at Publick Occurrences, the Common-Place blog, Joseph M. Adelman has written the first two in what he promises will be a series of posts on the history and current problems of the U.S. Postal Service. The first comments on “The Decline and Fall of the U.S. Postal Service,” and the second considers “The Post Office as a State-Business Hybrid.”    Adelman (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University,

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Registration and accommodations booking are now open for the World Economic History Congress (WEHC), to be held in Stellenbosch, South Africa, on July 9-13, 2012. The main WEHC page has links to everything one might want to know, including travel, cultural and tourist information, and various deadlines and schedules. In addition, the list of accepted sessions has been posted, as well as links

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The International Maritime Economic History Association will hold its sixth conference in Ghent, Belgium, on July 2-6, 2012, at Het Pand, a historic dominican monastery. The emphasis will be on the international, transnational, and global character of maritime history, with special attention to the relation between maritime and global history. The preliminary program has now been posted. The

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 Earlier this month, the American Antiquarian Society (AAS) held a conference with the title, "Before Madison Avenue: Advertising in Early America." Now the Library Company of Philadelphia, in conjunction with the LCP's Visual Culture Program and the AAS's Center for Historic Visual Culture (CHAViC), has announced a similar meeting, also called "Before Madison Avenue: Advertising in Early

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The Library Company of Philadelphia will host a conference on June 7-8, 2012, to investigate the topic “Capitalism by Gaslight: The Shadow Economies of Nineteenth-Century America.” As the call for papers explains:     There were many ways in which Americans earned a living through economic transactions beyond the spheres of “legitimate” commerce. Entrepreneurs of this sort included everyone

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Readers in or near New York City will be interested in the Columbia University Business History Forum's November 29 meeting, which will be a symposium on Capitalism Takes Command: The Social Transformation of Nineteenth-Century America (Chicago, 2011 [but out in January 2012]), edited by Michael Zakim and Gary J. Kornblith.    The symposium will meet from 6:30 to 8:00 pm, in Room 523, Butler

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The Economic History Society has posted the preliminary program for its 2012 meeting, which will be held at St. Catherine's College at the University of Oxford on March 30-April 1, 2012. In addition to two sessions (IV.F and V.B) specifically labelled "business history," the program contains many topics of interest to both business and economic historians. The 2012 Tawney Lecture will be

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The Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society at the Hagley Museum and Library in Wilmington, Delaware, and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania present will host a conference on “Historicizing Routines” on November 1-2, 2012. The organizers “invite empirical and historically focused papers that explore the development, devolution, destruction, and re-creation

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The European Business History Association will hold its next meeting jointly with the Business History Society of Japan on August 30-September 1, 2012, at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. The theme of the meeting is "Business Enterprises and the Tensions between Local and Global." Over several centuries companies have pursued their business strategies on

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Deadlines are approaching for the Lemelson Center Fellowship Program and Travel to Collections Award Program, which support projects that present creative approaches to the study of invention and innovation in American society.    The programs provide access to the expertise of the Institution's research staff and the vast invention and technology collections of the National Museum of American

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The Oxford Journals Doctoral Colloquium in Business History offers a small group of graduate students an opportunity to work intensively on their dissertations with distinguished Business History Conference-affiliated scholars, including at least two BHC officers.     The 2012 Doctoral Colloquium will be held in conjunction with the Business History Conference annual meeting in Philadelphia.

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The Securities and Exchange Commission Historical Society has posted a videocast of its recent program, "Silver Screen: How Films Shape Public Perception of Financial Regulation." Moderated by David Lipton of the Columbus School of Law at Catholic University of America, the program features a discussion of the topic by J. Bradley Bennett of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA)

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The December 2011 issue of Enterprise & Society is now available on the Oxford University Press website. Full text access requires a subscription (included in BHC membership), but the abstracts or extracts are accessible by all.   Contents include papers from the Krooss Dissertation Session at the 2011 BHC meeting as well as the following articles: Sean Patrick Adams, "How Choice Fueled Panic

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The German Historical Institute (GHI) in Washington, D.C., has issued a call for papers for a workshop to be held on February 24-25, 2012, on the topic “Globalization of African American Business and Consumer Culture.” Potential topics include, but are not limited to The marketing and selling of African-American culture (e.g. music, film, literature) around the globe African-American

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Stephen Mihm of the University of Georgia has revamped the Echoes blog at Bloomberg.com to focus on historical parallels to modern events in business and economics. As he explains: History doesn’t repeat itself. Sometimes, though, it rhymes. That idea animates our revamped "Echoes" blog, dedicated to the history of economics, business, finance and, above all, capitalism. Our contributors will

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The Market Cultures Group of New York City [no website] invites you to attend "Pioneering Economic Forecasters and Their Legacies," a presentation by Walter Friedman (research fellow, Harvard Business School, and editor, Business History Review), in conversation with Anders Maxwell (managing director, Peter J. Solomon Company). The event will take place on Thursday, November 10, 6:00-7:30 p.m.,

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The History of Consumer Culture research group in Japan will be holding its next conference at Gakushuin University, Tokyo, on March 26-28, 2012. The meeting's theme is "Genealogies of Curiosity and Material Desire: How Has Consumer Taste Been Constructed?" The program, which includes links to abstracts of the papers, has now been posted. In addition to regular sessions, keynote addresses will

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The Grupo Cuatrinacional de Estudios Empresariales e Historia Económica and the Coloquio de Historia de Empresas will hold a joint business history symposium on November 10-11, 2011, at the Universidad de San Andrés in Buenos Aires. The program has now been posted. Sessions are organized around three themes: "Economic Fluctuations and Business Strategies in the Twentieth Century," "The

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"Railroads and the Making of Modern America" is a digital history site at the University of Nebraska Lincoln, led by William G. Thomas III of Nebraska and Richard Healey, a geographer at the University of Portsmouth, UK, who focuses on historical GIS. The site's introduction explains: This project seeks to document and represent the rapid and far-reaching social effects of railroads and to

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A call for papers has been issued for a conference on "Markets, Law, and Ethics, 1400-1850," which will be held at the University of Sheffield on June 22-24, 2012. In the words of the organizers, This call seeks papers concerned with the culture of the market in the late medieval and early modern periods, conceived broadly as the norms, laws, customs and practices of exchange, including (but

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Bonus Army, Washington, D.C, July 1932 (Library of Congress) A number of scholars, including some business and labor historians, have been commenting on historical points of comparison for the current "Occupy Wall Street" movement. A brief rundown: Alan Brinkley, Columbia University, on Politico, "Bonus March and Occupy Wall Street" Steve Fraser, New York University, in The Nation, "OWS and

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The Yale Program in Economic History and Yale Environmental History will co-sponsor a conference on the theme “Resources: Endowment or Curse, Better or Worse,” which will take place on February 24-25, 2012. The program has now been posted on the Program in Economic History website. Among the questions the conference will consider are: “How do the characteristics and availability of natural

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The Economic History Association (EHA) will hold its next annual meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia, on September 21-23, 2012. The theme for the meeting is "Revisiting the Transportation Revolution." The program committee (Robert Margo, Boston University [chair]; Ran Abramitzky, Stanford University; Leah Boustan, UCLA; and Eugene White, Rutgers University) welcomes submissions on all

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Detail from Marinus van Reymerswaele, "The Usurers," c. 1540 Readers may be interested in an exhibit that opened in September at the Palazzo Strozzi in Florence,"Money and Beauty: Bankers, Botticelli, and the Bonfire of the Vanities." The exhibit "recounts the birth of our modern banking system and of the economic boom that it triggered, providing a reconstruction of European life and the

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The M6 Business History Group, an informal network of business historians who live and work near the M6 motorway in England, will hold its next workshop on January 26, 2012, at Coventry University. As detailed in the call for papers, the topic is "Firms' Responses to Globalisation in Different Periods of History." Although the workshop will focus on how firms have responded to globalisation,

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Origins is an on-line site for multimedia occasional papers published by the Department of History at Ohio State University. The current featured article, “Energy Policy and the Long Transition in America,” written by OSU professor William R. Childs, will be of interest to business and economic historians. The abstract states: Energy has been in the news lately: The natural gas industry

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Recently we mentioned a GIS site that visualized the growth of the United States through the establishment of post offices. Stanford University's Rural West Initiative provides a similar visualization through the founding of newspapers in its "Journalism's Voyage West." In addition to the primary map, which provides a visual representation of the number and locations of newspapers from 1690 to

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The Association of Business Historians has issued a call for papers for its 2012 meeting, which will be held at the Aston Business School, Birmingham, U.K., on July 6-7, 2012. The theme of the meeting is "Decision-Makers and Decision-Making." As the call for papers states, Business history has frequently focused on the role of strategy and decision-makers, and its long-term impact on the

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The Society of Automotive Historians is seeking proposals for papers to be presented at its Ninth Biennial Automotive History Conference, to be held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 12-14, 2012. The conference theme is “A World of Cars: Manufacturers, Drivers, and the Impact of Globalization.” It will focus on the international growth of the industry, initially by North American, later by

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The Center for Financial Policy at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business has issued a call for papers for a "Henry Kaufman Forum on Religious Traditions and Business Behavior," to be held in spring 2013. The forum will explore "two central questions in the relationship between the world’s major religious traditions and the business behavior of adherents to those

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The Stanford Silicon Valley Archives, under the direction of Henry Lowood, curator for history of science and technology collections in the Stanford University Libraries, and project historian Leslie Berlin, comprises an enormous and growing repository of materials related to the history of Silicon Valley. With the recent passing of Steve Jobs, the Apple collection has become a particular focus

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A selection of new and forthcoming books in business and economic history: Caroline Frank, Objectifying China, Imagining America: Chinese Commodities in Early America (University of Chicago Press, December 2011) Paul Garner, British Lions and Mexican Eagles: Business, Politics, and Empire in the Career of Weetman Pearson in Mexico, 1889-1919 (Stanford University Press, September 2011)

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"Ireland, America, and the Worlds of Mathew Carey" will take place in Philadelphia, Pa., on October 27-29, 2011, hosted by the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, the Library Company of Philadelphia, the Program in Early American Economy and Society, and the University of Pennsylvania Libraries. As the organizers explain, "This is the first part of a trans-Atlantic conference on Mathew

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Morris L. Bian of Auburn University has recently published a review of the literature on modern Chinese business history, 1978-2008, entitled "Interpreting Enterprise, State, and Society." The article appears in the September 2011 issue of Frontiers of History in China (full viewing requires a subscription or access through a subscribing institution). According to the abstract: This article

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Applicants are sought for up to two $10,000 fellowships for doctoral thesis research in U.S. business or economic history. These fellowships are available largely through the generosity of the late John E. Rovensky. The Rovensky Fellowship program is administered by the University of Illinois Foundation.    Applicants must be working toward a Ph.D. degree with U.S. business or economic history

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As the new academic year begins, we again offer a round-up of workshops, forums, and discussion groups in business and economic history. Please check each website for more detailed information; some groups may not have posted Fall 2011 information. In addition to their value for those able to participate directly, these groups often maintain mailing lists and sometimes make speakers' papers

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The 2011 edition of BEH On-Line, a series devoted to edited essays from the Business History Conference annual meetings, is complete. Readers may freely access all of the 18 essays in this issue, as well as any of the 199 previous essays.  A cumulative author index is available. Each year's issue also includes the program and paper abstracts from that year's meeting.  BEH On-Line is the

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The American Historical Association has released the preliminary version of the program for the 2012 annual meeting, which will be held in Chicago, Illinois, on January 5-8. As announced earlier, the Business History Conference is now an AHA-affiliated organization and as such can propose sessions for the meeting (though with no guarantee of acceptance). The BHC is sponsoring three sessions in

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A conference on "The Trade in Luxury and the Luxury of Trade," focusing on the production, display, and circulation of precious objects from the Middle Ages to the present day, will be held November 22-23, 2012, at the Musée Gadagne in Lyon. The conference is being organized by the Laboratoire de Recherche Historique Rhône-Alpes (LARHRA). The organizers explain: the objective is to reveal

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In 1992 the libraries of the University of Western Ontario tried to identify the company histories scattered throughout their holdings and to pull them together in one source, Business & History at Western: A Guide to Selected Resources in the UWO Library System. This work has now been placed on-line, at an expanded and on-going site, Books about Companies. As the compilers explain, Since

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Kevin Tennant, on his Business History blog, has posted a report on the recent British Academy of Management (BAM) meeting and the success of his and John Wilson's attempt "to revive the Business and Management History track" at this annual conference. Participants in the track included Andrew Godley, Terry Gourvish, and Stephanie Decker. The full listing can be found on the BAM program, at

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At its recent meeting, the Economic History Association awarded its Jonathan Hughes Prize to Ann Carlos, professor of economics at the University of Colorado and a longtime BHC member. Her research interests focus on the Canadian fur trade and on the growth and development of comparative business organizations in the sixteenth and seventeenth

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Earlier this month JSTOR, the well-known repository of journal articles, made pre-1923 content available without charge; for materials published outside the United States, the date is 1870. The copyright term outside the United States is set at the life of the author plus seventy years, so JSTOR picked 1870 as "a reasonable date to assume that all copyright is expired." JSTOR also released a

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The Hagley Library and Museum has recently revised and expanded its digital exhibition, "The DuPont Company on the Brandywine." The exhibit, which features many illustrations from Hagley's holdings, can be accessed by topics categorized by "People," "Place," or "Product." As the curators say, "These sources provide a detailed account of the nineteenth century history of the E.I. du Pont de

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The Network of Interdisciplinary Research in Family Firms (NIRFF) is,as the website explains, an academic network composed of scholars from different scientific disciplines and countries who share a common interest in exchanging knowledge about methodologies and theories related to family businesses, in a virtual and informal way. Our common goal is to share scientific tools that significantly

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The September issue of Historically Speaking, the bulletin of the Historical Society (THS), features a forum entitled "Ten Years After: Reflections on Kenneth Pomeranz’s The Great Divergence" (full title: The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy (Princeton University Press, 2000). As explained in the introduction, the forum consists of papers from a panel

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A workshop on "Information, Intermediation, and Financial Markets" will be held at the University of California, Riverside, on January 20-21, 2012. It will center on a discussion of the historical development of information management and intermediation in financial markets before the creation of modern banks. According to the call for papers, The workshop will bring together research on

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The All-University of California Economic History Group, the School of Social Sciences at the University of California, Irvine, and the Department of Economics at UC Irvine will jointly sponsor a conference on "Transport, Institutions, and Economic Performance: Historical Perspectives," to be held December 9-10, 2011, at UC Irvine. According to the call for papers, This conference will examine

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Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism is the newest exhibit from Baker Library's Historical Collections. Using the Harvard Business School library's extensive materials, the site "explores the continuing research in the history and role of railroads in creating not only the foundations of modern business, but also a system of modern capitalism that survives to this day." The exhibit is

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The September 2011 issue of Enterprise & Society is now available on the Oxford University Press website. Full text access requires a subscription (included in BHC membership), but the abstracts are accessible by all.   Contents include: Milena Veenis Cola in the German Democratic Republic. East German Fantasies on Western Consumption V. Necla Geyikdagi French Direct Investments in the

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In the wake of our recent post on a GIS visualization of US Post Office expansion comes word of the Rita Lloyd Moroney Awards for Scholarship in Postal History from the US Postal Service. The USPS sponsors two annual prizes for scholarship on the history of the American postal system: scholarship by junior scholars (undergraduates and graduate students) is eligible for a $1,000 award; scholarship

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The July 2011 issue of the journal Organization has a special section on "Journal Publishing and Rankings," with the editors' introduction, "What Is a Critical Journal?" available for free download.   This special attention comes at a time when a great deal of discussion is underway about the usefulness of "impact factors" and other journal ranking schemes (the Organization articles also

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In an interesting use of GIS, Derek Watkins, a graduate student in geography at the University of Oregon, has created a visualization showing how formal U.S. territorial control expanded in North America from 1700 to 1900, as seen through changes in the spatial distribution of post offices. (The image here is static; follow the link to see the dynamic mapping.) Watkins also points to a

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Friedrich Hayek John Maynard Keynes Efforts to deal with economic troubles around the world have brought renewed attention to two prominent economic thinkers of the twentieth century—John Maynard Keynes and Friedrich Hayek. As described in a nutshell by the London School of Economics, they "had sharply contrasting views: John Maynard Keynes believed that governments could create

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The Harvard-Newcomen Postdoctoral Fellowship in Business History is awarded for twelve months' residence, study, and research at Harvard Business School, July 1, 2012-June 30, 2013.The fellowship is open to scholars who, within the last ten years, have received a Ph.D. in history, economics, or a related discipline. The fellowship has two purposes: The first is to enable scholars to engage in

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The Economic History Association, meeting in Boston, Massachusetts, September 9-11, has now posted a  program breakdown with links to the full texts of papers. Papers can be accessed from the EHA conference website, by clicking on the individual days of the meeting. Full details and meeting logistics are available in the conference brochure; pre-registration is closed, but it is possible to

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Just a reminder that the deadline for proposals for "Immigration and Entrepreneurship: An Interdisciplinary Conference," cosponsored by the Center for the History of New America (University of Maryland), the Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute (University of Maryland), and the German Historical Institute (Washington, D.C.) is September 15, 2011. Conveners are David B. Sicilia and David F.

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The British Group in Early American History (BGEAH), "an extra-institutional collective of scholars interested in the early modern Atlantic world," will hold its 2011 conference at the University of Kent in Canterbury, UK, on September 9-11. The theme is "The Growing Daughter: Economies and Cultures in the Development of Early America, 1600-1820." The program, now available on the BGEAH

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The European Association for Urban History (EAUH) will hold its next annual conference in Prague from August 29 to September 1, 2012. The theme will be "Cities & Societies in Comparative Perspective." The program committee has posted the list of session topics and descriptions, and scholars are encouraged to propose papers that fit within a specific session. Readers will find several topics

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The Economic History Society and the Social History Society are co-sponsoring an international workshop on "Consumption and Standards of Living since the Eighteenth Century: Economic History, Social History, Cultural History," to be held at the University of Huddersfield on September 13, 2011. The full conference booklet, containing the program and paper abstracts, is now available on-line. In

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The Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford has a number of on-line exhibits of interest to business and economic historians. Perhaps most relevant is "A Nation of Shopkeepers: Trade Ephemera from 1654 to the 1860s in the John Johnson Collection." Images include a wide range of trade cards, bill heads, advertisements, and other ephemera related to trade in the period.    A second

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A selection of new and forthcoming books in business and economic history: Sarah S. Elkind, How Local Politics Shape Federal Policy: Business, Power, and the Environment in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles (University of North Carolina Press, August 2011) Leon Fink, Sweatshops at Sea: Merchant Seamen in the World's First Globalized Industry, from 1812 to the Present (University of North Carolina

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The American Antiquarian Society (AAS) is holding a conference with the theme "Before Madison Avenue: Advertising in Early America," which will meet in Worcester, Massachusetts, on November 4-5, 2011. The conference is sponsored by the Center for Historic American Visual Culture and the Program in the History of the Book in American Culture at the AAS. The preliminary program has now been

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The John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising, and Marketing History at Duke University has just announced the launch of ROAD 2.0: Resource of Outdoor Advertising Descriptions. As the introductory material explains, the project originated as a metadata-only database in 2003, funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Later, using a grant from the National Historic

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Before the new academic year overtakes most readers, it seems a good moment to remind everyone that the deadline for paper and session proposals for the 2012 Business History Conference meeting, which will be held in Philadelphia, Pa., on March 29-31, is October 1, 2011. The theme of the meeting is "Business and the State," as outlined in the call for papers: We are interested in substantive

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The journal Business History has issued a call for papers for a projected special issue on "The Age of Strategy: Exploring the Cultural, Organizational, and Political Dimensions of Strategy," with Chris Carter serving as guest editor. Carter explains in the call for papers: The objective of this special issue is to introduce interdisciplinary perspectives to help understand strategy both

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"Models of Mobility: Systemic Differences, Path Dependencies, Economic, Social, and Environmental Impact (1900 to Tomorrow)" will convene at York University, Toronto, on March 23-24, 2012. The workshop is organized jointly by the German Historical Institute (GHI), Washington, D.C., the Canadian Centre for German and European Studies (CCGES), and the Schulich School of Business, York

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The European Association for Banking and Financial History (EABH) and GREThA (Groupe de Recherche en Économie Théorique et Appliquée) at the University of Bordeaux will co-sponsor the third EABH Workshop for Young Scholars, to be held in Bordeaux in spring 2012. The topic will be "Public Policies and the Direction of Financial Flows." The call for papers states: Many times in history, public

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The 2012 conference of the Economic History Society will be held March 30-April 1 at St. Catherine's College, University of Oxford. According to the call for papers, The program committee welcomes proposals on all aspects of economic and social history covering a wide range of periods and countries and, particularly, papers of an interdisciplinary nature. Preference may be given to scholars

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The American Antiquarian Society (AAS) has a Web exhibit of interest, entitled "Big Business: Food Production, Processing, and Distribution in the North, 1850-1900." The introduction explains, "This online exhibition features lithographs, chromolithographs, trade catalogues, trade cards, and product labels from the American Antiquarian Society’s collection that help shed light on major

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The Economic and Business Historical Society (EBHS) will hold its next annual meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada, April 26-28, 2012. Paper and panel proposals on any aspect of business or economic history are now being accepted. Proposals should include: an abstract of no more than 500 words a brief curriculum vita postal and email addresses telephone and fax numbers Panel proposals should

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The Journal of Historical Research in Marketing (JHRM) has issued a call for papers for a special issue on "Remembering Female Contributors to Marketing Theory, Thought, and Practice," to appear in August 2013. Guest editors for this issue will be Mark Tadajewski, University of Strathclyde, and Pauline Maclaran, Royal Holloway, University of London. For submission procedures and suggested

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The Johns Hopkins Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health, and Study of Business Enterprise, co-directed by Louis Galambos and Steve Hanke, is co-sponsor with the Center for Financial Stability, headed by Lawrence Goodman, of a new repository of historical financial data. Historical Financial Statistics went online a year ago, with the goal of providing "a source of comprehensive,

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The 17th Conference on Accounting and Management History will be held in Toulouse, France, March 22-23, 2012. The meeting is co-sponsored by the Association Francophone de Comptabilité (AFC), the Centre de Recherche en Management (CRM) at the University of Toulouse 1 Capitole, the Laboratoire Gestion et Cognition (LGC) at the University of Toulouse 3 Paul Sabatier, and the Management Research

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The European Association for Banking and Financial History (EABH) and the National Bank of Romania are co-sponsoring a conference, to be held 7-9 June, 2012, in Bucharest, on "Public Policies and the Direction of Financial Flows." The call for papers states: Many times in history, public authorities have decided to pursue economic policies (mainly development policies) by directing the

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The 2011 meeting of the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) will be held in Cleveland, Ohio, on November 3-6. The preliminary program has now been posted on the meeting website, along with information about lodging, travel, and the Cleveland area. Registration information is also available, as well as details about tours and meals; the deadline for early registration is October 1, 2011

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SHEAR (Society for Historians of the Early American Republic) is meeting this week in  Philadelphia (July 14-17). The program includes several sessions of interest to business and economic historians of the early modern period. For example: Session 6. Laboring Others Aaron Marrs, chair and commentator Jay M. Perry: Irish Immigrant Secret Societies and Building of Indiana Canals Darla Thompson:

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