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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

Thursday 29 October 2000
19:00 GMT (15:00 EDT / 20:00 CET)
A virtual book celebration for Underground Asia: Global Revolutionaries and the Assault on Empire, by Tim Harper. The event will be held on Zoom.

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Alexia Yates, Prize Fellow in Economics, History, and Politics at the Harvard Center in 2011-2014, Center Research Associate, and Associate Research Fellow at the Cambridge Centre, was awarded a 2020 Philip Leverhulme Prize for "researchers at an early stage of their careers whose work has had international impact and whose future research career is exceptionally promising." We congratulate her warmly.

The Centre congratulates Alexander Bevilacqua, Mellon Prize Student 2007-2008, who has received the 2020 Herbert Baxter Adams Prize from the American Historical Association for his book The Republic of Arabic Letters: Islam and the European Enlightenment.

Heidi Tworek, Centre Research Associate and coordinator of the Centre’s United Nations History Project, has been awarded the Ralph Gomory Prize for her book News from Germany: The Competition to Control World Communications, 1900- 1945. We congratulate her warmly.

The Centre, together with Columbia World Projects, is pleased to announce a new project website, Barriers and Borders.

Online CHE Seminar

23 September 2020
Surabhi Ranganathan (Cambridge)
Unmaking the Ocean

14 October 2020
Esther Duflo (MIT / Paris School of Economics)
Every child counts: what children know, what
they don’t know and what can be done about it

18 November 2020
Sunil Amrith (Yale)
The Air as an Archive

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Next Core Seminar
29 October 2020
Harold James (Princeton)
Making a modern central bank: The Bank of England 1979–2003

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We are very pleased to announce a new project by David Todd on French Expatriates in Ottoman Egypt which has been published on the Visualizing Historical Networks website.

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.

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; Energy History and Gender Bias in India.