#  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"](/Studnicki-Gizbert%20WP-99001 "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*](/node/841366)[: Comparative History and Sociology in the Analysis of France's Overseas Trade, 1713-1748"](/Cheney%20WP-99002 "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"](/Ash-wp99003 ""A note and a Caveat for Merchants”: Mercantile Expertise in Elizabethan England")

**Natasha Glaisyer**, University of Cambridge, England  
["London's Royal Exchange, 1660-1750: The Trading World in Miniature"](/Glaisyer%20WP-99004 "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"](/Vilches%20WP-99005 "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" ](/Danvers%20WP-99006 ""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"](/Zahedieh%20WP-99007 "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"](/de%20Jong%20WP-99008 "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"](/Schnurmann%20WP-00009 "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"](/Duggan-Julca%20WP-99010 "The China Trade That Never Was: Lost Profit Opportunity for Spain, Loss of Freedom for California Indians")

**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"](/Peskin%20-%20WP99011 "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"](/Reese%20WP-99012 "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" ](/Hatfield%20WP-99013 "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"](/Paz%20WP-99014 "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"](/Chuku%20WP-99016 "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"](/Ifamose "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"](/Hunter%20WP-99018 ""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" ](/Edelson%20WP-99019 "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"](/The%20Business%20of%20Tobacco%20in%20the%20Spanish%20Empire,%201590-1636)

**Laura Náter**, El Colégio de Mexico  
["Cuba and Tobacco in the Spanish Empire in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries"](/Nater%20WP-99021 "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"](/Grafe%20WP-99022 "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"](/Corbacho%20WP-99023 "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"](/Muir%20WP-99024 "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"](/Rodgers%20WP-99025 "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"](/Ghachem%20WP-99026 ""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"](/Hamilton%20WP-99027 "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