Graduate Workshop on the Political Economy of Empire

The Beves Room, King’s College, Cambridge

4 November 2006

9:00 – 9:30      Arrival and Coffee

09:30-12:00     Panel I            Theorising the Early Modern Empire

Moderator: Dr. Richard Drayton

Pernille Røge, Cambridge
The Physiocratic Vision of Colonial France after the Seven Years War: Empire as Symbiosis?

Thomas Hopkins, Cambridge
Colonies and the Natural Order: Modelling Colonial Development in Adam Smith's Political Economy

Doohwan Ahn, Cambridge
Europe or America? The Economic Dimension of the Whig Split of 1717

Discussion

12:15-13:15     Lunch

13:30-16:00     Panel II          Imperial Experiences

Moderator: Dr. Gabriel Paquette

Giles Parkinson
War and Peace in the early stock market 

Claire Levenson, Cambridge
The Impact of Gifts and Trade: the Georgia Colonists and the Yamacraw Indians in the Colonial American Southeast

James Lees, London
Retrenchment, Reform and the Practice of Military-Fiscalism in the early East India Company State

Discussion

16:00-16:30     Coffee Break

16:30-19:00     Panel III        Countervailing Empires

Moderator: Dr. Istvan Hont

Jan Hartman, Rotterdam
Premonitions of decline in Pieter de la Court's criticism of the Dutch East India Company

Sophus A. Reinert, Cambridge
Recipes for Empire: A Quantitative Analysis of Economic Translations in Europe, 1500-1849 

Concluding Discussion

20:00               Conference Dinner