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CALL FOR PAPERS Special Issue of Essays in Economic & Business History (EEBH) THE ECONOMIC AND BUSINESS HISTORY OF BLACK AMERICANS Special Issue Guest Editors : Gary Hoover+ (Tulane University) and Matthew Mitchell‡ (University of the South) EEBH Editors : Mark Billings (University of Exeter) and Dan Giedeman (Grand Valley State University) EEBH, the journal of the Economic and Business History Society (EBHS), will be publishing a special issue on the economic and business history of Black Americans. This subject remains significantly understudied despite its importance in United States history. The primary goal of the special issue is therefore to encourage and bring greater awareness to research concerning Black American economic and business history. It is hoped that the special issue will stimulate continued research in these areas. We invite paper proposals on all aspects related to this subject. The following potential themes are suggested to indicate the breadth of possible ...

Call for Papers-Special Issue, Business History "Business and Finance in Latin America: From the Oil Shock to the Debt Crisis" Since the 2008-9 financial crisis, Latin America has experienced a period of sluggish economic activity and increasing levels of external debt. In a world of low interest rates, the liquidity injected into the US and European banking systems flew over into Latin American economies as global demand dropped and commodities prices crashed downwards. The boom of private and public indebtedness over the past decade has increased the economic and financial vulnerabilities of a region that has historically been dependent on international trade and exposed to external shocks such as the current pandemic. In a context where governments have stepped in to offset the impact of the coronavirus crisis, debt levels are now approaching the peak seen during the international debt crisis of the 1980s, raising fears amongst policymakers and business leaders of new defa...

Corporate Responses to Racial Unrest -- A special issue of the journal Enterprise & Society   Guest Editors: Dr. Tyesha Maddox and Dr. Michael J. Thate  The aim of this special issue is to convene an international team of scholars, ranging from diverse disciplinary perspectives and broad historical periods, on the question of historical corporate responses to racial unrest. Organized by an historian of the African Diaspora and a philosopher of religion and ethicist, this special issue places our current moment of corporate responses to racial unrest within a broad comparative perspective.     Historically, corporations and the pressure placed on them by fears of the loss of reputation and public good will have propelled many social justice movements. Some, however, have worked openly as well as through clandestine backchannels to suppress such movements. In this special issue, we interrogate the ways in which corporations have responded to social pressu...

CFP: Cuadernos de Historia. Serie Economía y Sociedad  El comité editorial de la revista Cuadernos de Historia. Serie Economía y Sociedad convoca a investigadores en el área de historia argentina y latinoamericana a enviar contribuciones originales para los números 26 y 27 a publicarse en julio y diciembre de 2021 respectivamente. Desde 1997, Cuadernos de Historia. Serie Economía y Sociedad se publica semestralmente desde el Centro de Investigaciones de la Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades de la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina. Esta revista es de acceso abierto.  Las propuestas serán sometidas a referato externo, doble-ciego, y pueden estar escritas en español, portugués o inglés.  En esta convocatoria la revista recibe tres tipos de contribuciones para su consideración: - Convocatoria general de manuscritos originales sobre cualquier tema relativo al campo de la historia argentina y latinoamericana. - Dossier: Propuestas para una sección especial bajo un coo...

The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era Special Issue: New Approaches to Music and Sound Guest Editors: David Suisman and Rebecca Tinio McKenna If new book series and journal special issues are any indication, over the last decade, there has been a surge of interest in the musical and sonic worlds of the past. Scholars of music, sound studies, disability studies, transnational and postcolonial studies, cultural history, history of the senses, and others have been expanding our historical understanding of soundscapes, music cultures, aurality, acoustics, and other aspects of the work sound does in the world. New scholarship is connecting music and sound with politics and social movements, capitalism and commerce, the formation of racial, gender, and class identity and difference, the history of technology and of natural environments, and more. For historians of music and sound in the U.S. context, the Gilded Age and Progressive Era is an especially important period. The years...

Call for Submissions: Entrepreneurship and Transformations Special Issue in Business History Special Issue Editor(s) Christina Lubinski (Copenhagen Business School & University of Southern California) William B. Gartner (Babson College) Renee Rottner (University of California Santa Barbara) R. Daniel Wadhwani (University of Southern California & Copenhagen Business School) Deadline: 30 September 2020 Entrepreneurship and Transformations Research on entrepreneurship has flourished in recent years, and the public interest in it has arguably never been greater. Few would disagree that entrepreneurship is one of the primary drivers of industry dynamics, economic and societal change, and innovation. However, the rapidly growing field of entrepreneurship studies has not displayed great strength in capturing dynamics and evolutions over time, partly due to a lack of historical empirical work of the sort that Schumpeter (1939) has already called for several decades ago...

Call for Submissions: High Speed Ground Transport in the United States The Journal of Transport History While the literature on high speed ground transport, including railways, maglev “trains,” and so-called personal rapid transit, is relatively broad and deep for Europe and Asia, the same is not true for the United States--probably because, after World War II, few American high speed projects were ever put into commercial service. This leaves significant aspects of USA ground transport history not well researched, including but not limited to initiatives to develop and commercialize frictionless vehicles in the 1960s and 1970s, and hyperloop vehicles in the past two decades; the experience of “higher speed” rail lines in the Northeast, Pacific Northwest, and Florida which, arguably, are generating profits; and the partial implementation of very high speed rail projects in Texas and California, among other developments. To address gaps in USA high speed ground transport liter...

Call for papers for a special issue of the Scandinavian Economic History Review on ‘Agriculture and Economic development’ The special issue will consist of five to six individual papers, subjected to blind peer review and will also be edited by Paul Sharp . All contributions should be based on original new research and will be subject to normal peer-review process. Papers submitted by November 30, 2019 to the SEHR online submission platform (https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/sehr20 ) will receive initial decisions by the end of February 2020. Please note in your cover letter than you presented at the DEGIT XXIV conference, and wish to be considered for the fast track. Agriculture and Economic development Agriculture plays a central role in economic history, and in fact it is only very recently that most of the world population has lived in cities. It is often assigned a rather passive role for development, however. For example, Lewis ( 1954 Lewis,  A. W.  ( 1954 )....

Special Issue Call for Papers The Atomic Business: Structures and Strategies Deadline to submit proposals is October 1st, 2019.  From 1955 to 1980 thirty countries began building and operating commercial nuclear reactors. One hundred were built within the United States by five North American Multinationals. Yet the global sales of nuclear reactors constituted a tight market and a great business opportunity for industrial economies such as the UK, West Germany and France. But the construction and operation of nuclear power plants was a complex and hazardous technological challenge, within the reach of only a few countries. Prior to the sale of a nuclear power plant, one had to evaluate the importing country’s capacity for receiving this almost unknown technology (technological absorption capacity) in terms of the country’s macroeconomic expectations (economic and financial capacity), the electricity production and consumption system (electrical grid), and the level of industri...

Call for papers for a special issue of the Scandinavian Economic History Review on ‘Agriculture and Economic development’ The deadline for submissions is November 30, 2019. The Scandinavian Economic History Review invites submissions for a special issue on ‘Agriculture and Economic Development’. A full description of the topic and suggested areas for contributions is available here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03585522.2019.1568823 . Potential contributors are encouraged to contact the editor responsible, Professor Paul Sharp (University of Southern Denmark, pauls@sam.sdu.dk) to discuss their topics and approach in advance of the deadline. Please note in addition, that the Scandinavian Economic History Review (SEHR) is offering the possibility for participants at the conference on ‘Dynamics, Economic Growth, and International Trade, DEGIT – XXIV’ in Odense, Denmark from August 22–23, 2019 (see http://degit.sam.sdu.dk/) to submit their papers for fast track consi...