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Detail from 'Asia,' in R. Brookes, The General Gazetteer; or, Compendious Geographical Dictionary, 8th ed. (Dublin, 1808). Courtesy of the University of Texas Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection, available at http://www. lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/asia_1808.jpg

Joseph Vernet, Première vue de Toulon, vue du pont-neuf prise à l'angle du parc d'artillerie (Oeuvre – RMN 179024. Réunion des Musées Nationaux)

Shinanogawa Electric Power Station is TEPCO's hydroelectric power station. It receives water from Nishiotaki dam's intake on Shinanogawa river.

announcements

Heidi Tworek, coordinator of the UN History project, has won the 2020 Ralph Gomory Prize from the Business History Conference and the 2019 Wiener Holocaust Library Fraenkel Prize for her book From Germany: The Competition to Control World Communications, 1900-1945. We congratulate her warmly.

The Joint Center for History and Economics is pleased to announce a new website, Visualizing Climate and Loss.

The Centre mourns the loss of William Brown, Professor Emeritus of Industrial Relations, scholar and practitioner of conciliation, and the Chair of the Centre's Executive Committee. We will miss him greatly.

The Joint Centre for History and Economics is delighted to announce CHEP, a new project with Sciences Po: CHE in Paris – Histories of Economic Life.

Rohit De, Mellon Research Fellow at the Centre in 2012 - 2014 has been awarded the J. Willard Hurst Prize for the Best Work in Sociolegal Legal History.

David K. Richards (1939-2015) was a friend and adviser to the Joint Centre for History and Economics, at Cambridge and at Harvard, over many years. He was a participant in Centre events, a wonderful observer of economic history, and, with Carol Richards, an immensely generous supporter of the Centre's work. One of the many interviews with him, in Barron's, began, "Of all the people we interview, David Richards strikes the deepest chord with readers. His interviews seem to be the ones that get tacked to walls or saved in a desk drawer, treasures of insight and wisdom." We miss him greatly.

Centre Newsletter

WELCOME

The Joint Centre for History and Economics is based at Magdalene College and King's College, University of Cambridge, and at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University. It was established in 1991 to promote research and education in fields of importance for historians and economists, including the history of economic and social thought, economic history and the application of economic concepts to historical problems. The objective of the Centre is to encourage fundamental research in history, economics, and related disciplines. It also encourages the participation of historians and economists in addressing issues of public importance.

The Centre is supported by a generous gift from the David K. and Carol Richards Fund. In cooperation with its counterpart Centre at Harvard, the Cambridge Centre undertakes research projects and organizes workshops, seminars and exchanges of faculty and graduate students. It provides the base for the History Project, and for current research projects on Exchanges of Economic, Legal and Political Ideas; The Transnational History of Health in Southeast Asia; Energy History and Gender Bias in India.