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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

Fei-Hsien Wang former research fellow at the Cambridge Centre was Highly Commended by the 2020 DeLong Book History Prize for her book Pirates and Publishers: A Social History of Copyright in Modern China. We congratulate her warmly.

Amartya Sen, Research Associate of the Cambridge Centre and Lamont University Professor at Harvard, has been awarded the 2020 Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. We congratulate him warmly.

New Online CHE Seminar

May 20, 2020
Emma Rothschild (CHE-Harvard/Cambridge)
History and Distance: a Cholera Epidemic in 1855

June 17, 2020
Paul-André Rosental (CHE-P/Sciences Po)
The First Thirty Days: The Covid Crisis and Public Health Policies

July 15, 2020
Rohit De (CHE-Cambridge/Yale)
States of Emergency

Further information »

The Joint Centre for History and Economics is changing to meet the new challenges - and opportunities - of being an active part of a university, a college, a school, or a research community.

Here are a few of our plans.

1. There will be a new online seminar, across the Cambridge and Harvard Centres and CHE-P, in May, June and July 2020.

2. There is a new feature, The Pandemic, on the Visualizing Climate and Loss website.

3. Scholarly life – and publishing – goes on. We are pleased to introduce the first in a series of virtual book parties, for Making It Count.

The Centre for History and Economics mourns the loss of Julian Perry Robinson, Professor Emeritus at the University of Sussex and great historian of chemical and biological weapons, who has done so much to prevent their use. Julian Perry Robinson was essential to the Common Security Forum with which the Centre began in 1991, and 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.

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.