Prato, 8-13 May 2015
Call for papers: The focus of the seminar are the shocks and their influence on past economies and societies. Long debates have been devoted by the historians to agricultural crises (ordinarily caused by sudden changes in the availability of primary goods) and their influence on past agricultural economies and especially on death- birth- and marriage-rates. Although such crises are included, the scope of the seminar is wider. Attention is devoted to any kind of shocks and their economic consequences (both in the short and long run): from climatic changes, environmental changes, epidemics, wars, sudden changes in markets and finance.
List of participants
- Jelten Baguet (Brussels), The Transformation of Urban Political Elites. The Case of Sixteenth Century-Ghent
- Peter Bent (Oxford), Capital Flows and Crises during the First Age of Globalization, 1880–1913
- Cédric Chambru (Geneva), Weather fluctuations and social conflicts in France during the Old Regime (1661-1789)
- Daniel Curtis (Utrecht), Plague in seventeenth-century Europe: a rejoinder to Alfani's ‘epidemiological hypothesis'
- Michiel de Haas (Wageningen), Climate and conflict in colonial British Africa: Did cash crops mitigate shocks?
- José-Luis Martínez-Gonzáles (Barcelona), Did the climate change influence the English agriculture development (1645-1740) ?
- Kostadis Papaioanou(Wageningen), Climatic shocks and conflict: Evidence from colonial Nigeria
- Pablo Pryluka (Buenos Aires), Between shock and gradualism: the liberalization policies in Argentina and Chile
- Pol Serrahima Balius (Lleida), Market performance and famines in late medieval and early modern Barcelona
- Riina Turunen (Jyväskylä), Economic crises and business life in Finnish nineteenth-century towns. A quantitative case study
- Jaap Ligthart (Leiden), Individual versus collective involvement of the Guelders' Estates in the alienation of ducal domains (1423-1473)
- Bram van Besouw (Utrecht), War, a horseman of the apocalypse or harbinger of change? An analysis of rural economic response to warfare in the Low Countries, c. 1450-1650
- Joris van den Tol (Leiden), Trade embargoes and toll control: Dutch smuggling in the early seventeenth century
- Francesco Ammannati (Bocconi University Milano)
- Jessica Dijkman (Utrecht University)
- Ben Gales (Groningen University)
- Paolo Malanima (UMG University Catanzaro)
- Giovanni Muto (Napoli University)
- Jaco Zuijderduijn (Leiden)