The Economy of the Atlantic World
Tuesday, August 10
SESSION 1
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
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, University of Cambridge, England
"London's Royal Exchange, 1660-1750: The Trading World in Miniature"
Wednesday, August 11
WORKSHOP
The Problems of Money, Currency, and Exchange in the Early Modern Atlantic World
Chair: John J. McCusker, Trinity University, San Antonio
SESSION 3
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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"
Friday, August 20
SESSION 14
Summary and Interpretation
Members of the Seminar