Program

35th Economic & Business Historical Society conference

Braga, Portugal

Group Hotel Bom Jesus

27-29 may 2010

http://www.ebhsoc.org/portugal.htm

Dear Conference Participants:

We welcome you to the 35th annual meeting of the Economic & Business Historical Society. We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your contribution on many different levels. Your presentations have allowed us to put together a strong program, which we trust you will find stimulating and intellectually challenging. Furthermore, your patience and readiness in dealing with all the details of the conference organisation were essential in helping us to ensure the success of our conference.

This will be the first time that the EBHS annual conference will have been held outside North American Portugal’s oldest city, Braga, will be the setting for this year’s conference. Braga is also one of the oldest Christian cities in the world, and it has a lot to offer in terms of history and culture.  The city is famous for its baroque churches, majestic 18^th century manor houses and splendid gardens and parks. The conference hotel is located in what is considered to be the most breathtaking location in the city: the sanctuary of Bom Jesus. It lies on a slope surrounded by luxurious vegetation, and it offers truly magnificent views over the city.

The organization of such a conference requires the combined efforts of many different parties. We would like to offer a few words of gratitude to all the officers of the EBHS, and particularly to Daniel Giedeman, Erik Benson, Jamie Stitt, Janice Traflet, Jari Eloranta, Silvano Wueschner and Wade Shilts, as well as to the local organizing committee, José Virato Capela, José Cordeiro, José Palmeira and Estela Vieira. We are particularly grateful to the University of Minho (Braga, Portugal) and Coventry University (Coventry, United Kingdom). Lastly, in the Program Acknowledgements, we will list all the institutions, bodies and people to whom we are grateful for providing both financial and non-financial support.

EBHS seeks to uphold high standards of scholarly excellence characterized by a collective sense of responsibility and esprit de corps. Our aim is to provide an environment of both intense and stimulating debate as well as strong, collegial interaction. We hope you will benefit greatly from our meeting, and that it is a most enjoyable and refreshing experience. 

“Bem-vindo a Braga”

Maria Cristina Moreira, EBHS President

Neil Forbes, Program Chair    

__Acknowledgements  __

The president and program chair of the 2010 Economic and Business Historical Society Conference would like to give special thanks to the Economic and Business Historical Society, University of Minho and Coventry University.

Special thanks for the financial support provided by Department of Economics of School of Economics and Management,    NEEII - European, Industrial and International Economics Research Unit and Confucius Institute at the University of Minho, as well as from the Bank of Portugal. Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia; Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Pt Prime and Fidelidade Mundial.

We wish to offer our thanks to the students from University of Minho, to the Portuguese artisans for their gracious gifts. 

A special thanks to ASUS, Fatech.com, Kingston, Ruma-PHC and Samsung   for providing computer services, and Barclays for office material. 

Many thanks to the Bom Jesus Hotel Group for accommodation services, to Ferreira Port Wine Cellars for the guided visit, and to Solinca for their assistance with the evening banquet at “Casa Ferreirinha” Ferreira Porto Wine Cellars.

Thanks also to the Town Halls of Braga, Vila Nova de Gaia, Valongo and Vila Verde for their support.

We would like to say a special thank you to the designer Manuel Marques for his collaboration 

Economic & Business Historical Society - 35^th Annual Conference | May 27-29, 2010 | Braga, Bom Jesus

WEDNESDAY, MAY, 26

Registration (Hotel do Templo):  18.30 – 20.30    

. THURSDAY, MAY, 27

Registration (Hotel do Templo): 08.30 – 11.30    

Opening Session (Room Torre, Colunata Evento):  “The Divergence Debate: A Chinese Perspective”  Prof. Li Bozhong (Tsinghua University, China), Prof. Patrick O´Brien (London School of Economics and Political Science — University of London, UK) and Prof. Jaime Reis (Instituto de Ciências  Sociais  - University of Lisbon, Portugal): 08.30 - 10.00     

Session 1 State, Nation and Economic Policy (5 parallel panels): 10.30 – 12.30     

Session 2 Firms, Accounting & Business Operations (5 parallel panels): 14.30 - 16.30     

Session 3 Banking & Financial Markets (5 parallel panels): 17.00 - 19.00     

Annual Roundtable (Room Torre, Colunata Evento): 19.00 - 20.30     

 Reception and Dinner (Room Colunata Evento): 20.30 - 22.00     

FRIDAY, MAY, 28

Registration (Hotel do Templo):  08:30 -11.30    

Session 4   War, Empire & Trade (I)  (5 parallel panels):  09.00 - 11.00     

Session 5  Transport, Technology & Societal Change (5 parallel panels): 11.15 - 13.15     

EBHS Board Meeting (Room Torre Colunata Evento): 15.00 - 16.00     

Afternoon Tour Ferreira Porto Wine Cellars Tour:  16:00

Evening Banquet at "Casa Ferreirinha" Ferreira Porto Wine Cellars (Vila Nova de Gaia): 19.30                 

SATURDAY, MAY, 29

                   Registration (Hotel do Templo): 08.00 - 10.30     

EBHS Members Business Meeting (Room Torre Colunata Evento): 08.00 - 09.00     

Session 6 Theory, Methodology & Historiography (3 Parallel Panels) War, Empire & Trade (II) (1 Panel): 09.00 - 11.00       

Closing session (Room Torre Colunata Evento): “The Crisis of 2008 and the Crisis of 1931. What have we learned?" Portuguese Minister of State and Finance Prof. Fernando Teixeira dos Santos (Faculdade de Economia do Porto — University of Porto, Portugal), Prof. Michael Bordo (Rutgers University, USA) and Prof. Jaime Reis (Instituto de Ciências Sociais — University of Lisbon, Portugal): 11.00 - 12.30     

Officers of the __ Economic & Business __ 
Historical Society

CHAIR OF BOARD OF TRUSTEES 
James W. Stitt, High Point University

PRESIDENT 
Maria Cristina Moreira, University of Minho

PROGRAM CHAIR 
 Neil Forbes, Conventry University

PRESIDENT – ELECT 
 Jason Taylor, Central Michigan University

SECRETARY – TREASURER 
Jari Eloranta, Appalachian State University

VICE PRESIDENT FOR MARKETING 
Wade Shilts, Luther College

TRUSTEES 


Christiane Diehl Taylor, Eastern Kentucky University

Daniel Giedeman, Grand Valley State University

Duncan Connors, University of Glasgow

Erik Benson, Cornerstone University

Jason Taylor, Central Michigan University

Larry Malone, Hartwick College


Lynne Pierson Doti Chapman University

Luis G. Dopico, Macrometrix

Maria Cristina Moreira, University of Minho 


Ranjit S. Dighe, State University of New York – Oswego

Silvano Wueschner, Air University

Wade Shilts, Luther College

WEBMASTER 
Silvano Wueschner, Air University

EDITOR, ESSAYS IN ECONOMIC & BUSINESS HISTORY 
 Janice Traflet, Bucknell University

ASSOCIATE EDITORS


D. Gene Pace, Claflin College .

Erik Benson, Cornerstone University,

Neil Forbes, Conventry University

Stephanie Crofton, High Point University.

ARCHIVIST
 David O. Whitten, Auburn University

CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD, EMERITUS 
Philip Smith, Michigan State University

FOUNDER 
Charles J. Kennedy

Past Presidents

Past Presidents:

President (2009)       

Daniel Giedeman

Grand Valley State University

President and Program Chair

(2008)/webmaster

Silvano Wueschner, Air University

President and Program Chair

(2007)

Roberto Mazzoleni

Hofstra University

Past Sites of the Annual Conference __ Economic & Business __ Historical Society

Wednesday 26 May  2010               

18.30 – 20.30     R egistration (Hotel do Templo)

Thursday 27 May  2010                   

 08.30 – 11.30     Registration (Hotel do Templo)

 08.30 - 10.00     Opening Session (Room Torre, Colunata Evento):  “The Divergence Debate: A Chinese Perspective” Prof. Li Bozhong (Tsinghua University, China), Prof. Patrick O´Brien (London School of Economics and Political Science — University of London, UK) and Prof. Jaime Reis (Instituto de Ciências Sociais - University of Lisbon, Portugal)

10.00 - 10.30      Refreshment Break (Room Colunata Evento)

10.30 - 12-30      Session 1: State, Nation and Economic Policy (5 parallel panels)

12.30 - 14.30      Lunch break (Colunata Evento, for those booked at Group Hotel Bom Jesus)

14.30 - 16.30      Session 2: Firms, Accounting & Business Operations (5 parallel panels)

16.30 - 17.00      Refreshment Break (Room Colunata Evento)

17.00 - 19.00      Session 3: Banking & Financial Markets (5 parallel panels)

19.00 - 20.30      Annual Roundtable (Room Torre, Colunata Evento)

20.30 - 22.00     Reception and Dinner (Room Colunata Evento)

Friday 28 May 2010       

08:30 - 11.30       Registration (Hotel do Templo)

09.00 - 11.00      Session 4: War, Empire & Trade (I)  (5 parallel panels)

11.00 - 11.15      Refreshment Break (Room Colunata Evento)

11.15 - 13.15      Session 5: Transport, Technology & Societal Change (5 parallel panels)

13.15 - 14.45      Lunch break (Colunata Evento, for those booked at Group Hotel Bom Jesus)

15.00 - 16.00      EBHS Board Meeting (Room Torre Colunata Evento)

16.00                   Ferreira Porto Wine Cellars Tour (meeting point: Largo do Coreto, Souvenir Shop)

19.30                   Evening Banquet at "Casa Ferreirinha" Ferreira Porto Wine Cellars (Vila Nova de Gaia)

Saturday 29 May 2010                  

08.30  - 10.30     Registration (Hotel do Templo)

08.00 - 09.00      EBHS Members Business Meeting (Room Torre Colunata Evento)

09.00 - 11.00      Session 6: Theory, Methodology & Historiography (3 Parallel Panels) War, Empire & Trade (II) (1 Panel)

10:30 - 11:00       Refreshment Break (Room Colunata Evento)

11.00 - 12.30      Closing session (Room Torre Colunata Evento): “The Crisis of 2008 and the Crisis of 1931. What have we learned?" Portuguese Minister of State and Finance Prof. Fernando Teixeira dos Santos (Faculdade de Economia do Porto — University of Porto, Portugal), Prof. Michael Bordo (Rutgers University, USA) and Prof. Jaime Reis (Instituto de Ciências Sociais — University of Lisbon, Portugal)

SESSION DETAILS

Thursday  27 May  2010

08.30 - 11.30      Registration (Hotel do Templo)

08.30 - 10.00      Opening Session: (Room Torre, Colunata Evento) “The Divergence Debate: A Chinese Perspective”

                                        Prof. Li Bozhong (Tsinghua University, China) 

                                        Prof. Patrick O´Brien (London School of Economics and Political Science — University of London, UK)

                                        Prof. Jaime Reis (Instituto de Ciências Sociais — University of Lisbon, Portugal)

10.00 - 10.30      Refreshment Break (Room Colunata Evento)

10.30 - 12.30      Session 1: State, Nation and Economic Policy (5 parallel panels)

Panel A:  4 papers, 20 min/per person and debate 40 minutes  (Room Templo, Hotel Templo)

Chair: Jari Eloranta (Appalachian State University, USA; elorantaj@appstate.edu)

Joaquim da Costa Leite (University of Aveiro, Portugal)

The First Cycle of Productivity Conferences in Portugal 1960: Organizational and thematic Aspects

Der-Yuan Yang (National Kaohsiung First University of Science and Technology, Taiwan)

Monopoly and Nation-building: Past and Present

Nuno Madureira (Lisbon University Institute, Portugal)       

The nationalizations of electricity:  a comparative outlook of postwar Europe and Portugal

Martin Cohen  (Independent Researcher, UK)

The Change of Change: Decimalisation, the most protracted ‘non event’ in history

Panel B: 4 papers, 20 min/per person and debate 40 minutes (Room Lazer, Hotel Elevador)

Chair: Ranjit Dighe (State University of New York, USA; ranjit.dighe@oswego.edu)

Matteo Troilo (University of Bologna, Italy)

Welfare state in Italy and in Canada: a comparison (1945-2009)

Jason Taylor (Central Michigan University, USA), Todd C. Neumann (University of California-Merced, USA) & Jerry L. Taylor (Kaplan University, USA)

The Impact of Legislative Action and Key Court Rulings on the New Deal Labour Market

Álvaro Pereira (Simon Fraser University, Canada) & Ana Margarida Silva (University of Coimbra, Portugal)

An unequal country? Five centuries of wage inequality in Portugal, 1500-1910

John Moore (Walsh College, USA)

“The Grossest and Most Unjust Species of Favoritism” An Examination of Competing Views of Republican

Political Economy during the Tariff Debates of 1841 and 1842

Panel C: 4 papers, 20 min/per person and debate 40 minutes (Room Casino, Colunata Evento)

Chair: James Stitt (High Point University, USA; jstitt@highpoint.edu)

Judith Stein (City University of New York, USA)

The Politics of U.S. Monetary Policy:  Paul Volcker, Jimmy Carter, and the 1970s Inflation

David Koistinen (William Paterson University, USA)

Policy Responses to Industrial Downsizing in Massachusetts during the 1970s

Paulo Mourão (University of Minho, Portugal)

Implications of Fiscal Illusion on a Fasiani Utility Function

Susana Martínez-Rodríguez  (University of Murcia, Spain) & Timothy Guinnane (Yale University, USA)

Was the Spanish Cooperative a Business Formula? Cooperatives and Business Acts in Spain (1869-1931)

Panel D: 4 papers, 20 min/per person and debate 40 minutes (Room Arcada, Hotel Elevador)

Chair - Luis Dopico (Macrometrix, High Point, N.C. USA; lgdopico@mindspring.com)

Helen Paul (University of Southampton, UK)

The South Sea Bubble and Archibald Hutcheson’s scheme for the National Debt

Mark Horowitz (University of Illinois, USA)

A Country under Contract: Early-Tudor England and the Growth of a Credit Culture

Matthew Bellamy (Carleton University, Canada)

“Rich By Nature, Poor By Policy”: State Intervention and the Stillborn Birth of the Canadian Brewing Industry,1668-1675

Carlos Alberto Damas (Lusíada University of Porto, Portugal)

Buying neutrality: Portugal’s failed attempt to secure its sovereignty/independence through   financial loans, 1797-1802

Panel E:  3 papers, 25 min/per person and debate 45 minutes (Room Estar, Hotel Parque)

Chair - Janice Traflet (Bucknell University, USA; jtraflet@bucknell.edu)

Mariann Nagy (University of Pécs, Hungary)

The Regional Economic Structure of the Habsburg Monarchy in the 1850s and 1860s (at the Eve of the Compromise)

Antonella Viola (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal)

The Business of Coral: Italian Coral industry and coral trade in the long 19th century

Caroline E. Arnold (University of New York, USA)

Historicizing Flexibility: Industrial Competition and Labor Recruitment in Colonial India

12.30 - 14.30      Lunch break (Colunata Evento, for those booked at Group Hotel Bom Jesus)

14.30 - 16.30      Session 2: Firms, Accounting & Business Operations (5 parallel panels)

Panel A:  4 papers, 20 min/per person and debate 40 minutes (Room Lazer, Hotel Elevador)

Chair - Per Hansen (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark; phh.lpf@cbs.dk)

Patrice Gélinas (York University, Canada) & Lisa Baillargeon (Université du Québec, Canada)

CEO Compensation in Canada, 1971-2005

Susan Yohn (Hofstra University, USA)

Embracing Diversity as a Business Strategy: United States Corporate Culture and Affirmative Action, 1965-2003

Teresa Marques (University of Brasília, Brazil)

The Financial Branch of a Portuguese Business Community in Rio de Janeiro, 1918 to 1945

Isabel Bartolomé-Rodríguez (Lisbon University Institute, Portugal)

Porto’s Market and early Electrification: Opportunistic Behaviour of Firms, the Municipality and the Portuguese State  (1922- 1938)

Panel B: 4 papers, 20 min/per person and debate 40 minutes (Room Templo, Hotel Templo)

Chair - Erik Benson (Cornerstone University, USA; erik_benson@cornerstone.edu)

Jocelyn Wills (City University of New York, USA)

Neither For Love Nor For Money: Personal-Financial Entanglements and Small Business Failure in 19th-Century Brooklyn

Fernando Abrahão (University of Campinas, Brazil)

Origin, Growth and Succession in Family Firm: The Case of the “Frango Assado” Restaurants on Highways

Giuliano Maielli (Queen Mary, University of London, UK)

Killing an icon in the name of speed: Fiat operations managers and the decline of Lancia in the 1970s

David Celetti (university of Padua, Italy)

Aspects, Phases and Problems of Italian Industrialization. The Case of the Linificio e Canapificio Nazionale (1873-2010)

Panel C: 4 papers, 20 min/per person and debate 40 minutes (Room Casino, Colunata Evento)

Chair - Lynne Doti (Chapman University, USA; ldoti@chapman.edu)

Pierre Van der Eng (Australian National University, Australia)

The Impact of Host Country Policies and Parent Company Strategies on Philips Australia in the 20th Century

Alberte Martínez & Jesús Mirás (University of La Coruña, Spain)

Gas and Business in a Spanish region, Galicia 1850-1936

Annette Cox (Campbell University, USA)

Gastonia’s Loray Mill: A Study of Tragic Mismanagement

Gustavo Pereira da Silva (UNICAMP – State University of Campinas, Brazil)

Nestlé and Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Co. (1867-1921): birth and expansion of a great company

Panel D: 4 papers, 20 min/per person and debate 40 minutes (Room Arcada, Hotel Elevador)

Chair - Daniel Giedeman (Grand Valley State University, USA; giedemad@gvsu.edu)

Ralph Gunderson (University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, USA)

A Historical Account of the International Coffee Cartel

Timo Särkkä, Heli Valtonen, Olli Turunen & Maare Valtonen (University of Jyväskylä, Finland)

The Economic and Social Networks of Business Leaders in the Nineteenth Century Finland

Jørgen Burchardt (Museum of Southern Jutland, Denmark)

Standardization and Cartelisation in the Interwar Period: Examples from the Metal Industries in the Foundation of the international Market under the Influence of Dominating Cartels

Clive Edwards (Loughborough University, UK)

Networks and Locations in the English Furniture Industry: The Case of High Wycombe 1880-1920   

Panel E: 3 papers, 25 min/per person and debate 45 minutes (Room Torre, Colunata Evento)

Chair - Lúcia Lima Rodrigues (University of Minho, Portugal; lrodrigues@eeg.uminho.pt)

Álvaro Ferreira da Silva (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal)

Business group in trouble: CUF and the beginning of management consulting in Portugal (1960-1974) 

Didier Bensadon (University Paris-Dauphine, France)

The introduction of group accounts in French large firm during the sixties: some insight into the real motivations

Bronwen Edwards (Leeds Metropolitan University, UK)

Building John Lewis: retailers, architects and the property game

16.30 - 17.00      Refreshment break (Room Colunata Evento)

17.00 - 19.00      Session 3: Banking & Financial Markets (5 parallel panels)

Panel A:  4 papers, 20 min/per person and debate 40 minutes (Room Templo, Hotel Templo)

Chair - Mark Billings (Nottingham University Business School, University of Nottingham UK; mark.billings@nottingham.ac.uk)

Andrew Seltzer (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)

A Comparison between Unit and Branch Banking: Australian Evidence on Portfolio Diversification and Branch Specialization1860-1930

Daniel Giedeman (Grand Valley State University, USA)

Branch Banking, Information Asymmetries and the Freedman’s Savings Bank

Per Hansen (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark)

Cooperate or Free-Ride? Central Banks, the Bank for International Settlements, and International Lenders of Last Resort in the Austrian Credit Anstalt Crisis of 1931

Ranjit Dighe (State University of York, USA)

Saving Private Capitalism: The U.S. Bank Holiday of 1933

Panel B: 4 papers, 20 min/per person and debate 40 minutes (Room Lazer, Hotel Elevador)

Chair - Michael Collins (Leeds University Business School, University of Leeds, UK; mc@lubs.leeds.ac.uk)

Stefano Ugolini (The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Switzerland)

Universal Banking and the Emergence of Secondary Corporate Debt Markets: Lessons from 1830s Belgium

Hugo Pereira (University of Porto, Portugal)

Banco Agrícola e Industrial Vianense – The bank of the Misericórdia

Ann-Christine Frandsen (University of Warwick, UK) & Elton McGoun (Bucknell University, USA)

The Architecture of Banking in Ancient Mesopotamia

Delfina Gomes (University of Minho, Portugal), Lúcia Lima Rodrigues (University of Minho, Portugal) & Garry Carnegie (University of Ballarat, Australia)

Accounting rules as a technology of government to exert action at a distance in the Portuguese Empire: the case of the Royal Treasury (1761-1777)

Panel C: 4 papers, 20 min/per person and debate 40 minutes (Room Casino, Colunata Evento)

Chair - Jason Taylor (Central Michigan University, USA; taylo2je@cmich.edu)

Maria Eugénia Mata, José Carlos Rodrigues da Costa & David Justino (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal)

Portuguese Average Cost of Capital

Janice Traflet (Bucknell University, USA)

Breaking the Gender Barrier on the NYSE Floor:  The Forgotten History

Amélia Branco, Pedro Neves & Rita Sousa (Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal)

Financial markets in small and peripheral countries: Lisbon Stock Exchange (1870-1910)

Matthew Mitchell (University of Pennsylvania, USA)

The English body politic and the 'extravagant humour of stock-jobbing' 1690-1720

Panel D: 4 papers, 20 min/per person and debate 40 minutes (Room Arcada, Hotel Elevador)

Chair - Mae Baker-Collins (Leeds University Business School, University of Leeds, UK; mb@lubs.leeds.ac.uk)

Cristiana Cerqueira Leal & Manuel Rocha Armada (University of Minho, Portugal)

Individual Investors’ buying Behavior

Fátima Dias & Fernando Lopes (University of the Azores, Portugal)

From optimism to despair: the downfall of the Azorena bank sector after the 1929 economic crisis

Patricia Van den Eeckhout & Peter Scholliers (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)

Sales Strategies of a Multiple Grocer: Delhaize le Lion (Belgium,1867-1940)

Kailai Huang (Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, USA)

American Business and the Perceptions of the China Market in the Early Twentieth Century

Panel E: 4 papers, 20 min/per person and debate 40 minutes (Room Torre, Colunata Evento)

Chair - Wade Shilts (Luther College, USA; shiltswa@luther.edu)

Eoin McLaughlin (National University of Ireland, Ireland))

Irish loan fund societies 1860-1914: debt peonage and regulatory capture

Luciano Amaral & Luís Nunes (Universidade Nova  de Lisboa, Portugal)

Two Paths to High Growth and Slowdown: Portugal and Spain, 1950-2007

Gul Karagoz-Kizilca (Binghamton University., USA)

“Real tax payers” vs. “fortune hunters”: Ottoman newspapers’ presentations of peasants, artisans, and Galata bankers during the nineteenth century financial crisis

Daniel Budden (Swansea University, UK)

Moralizing, escaping, and superseding the market: Christian Socialism and the 'conversion of the economists', 1880-1914

19.00 - 20.30      Annual Pedagogy Roundtable (Chair - Wade Shilts) ( Room Torre Colunata Evento)

Discussants:

Maria Eugénia Mata

Jari Eloranta

Daniel Giedeman

20.30 - 22.00      Reception and Dinner (Room Colunata Evento)

Friday 28 May  2010

      08.30 - 11.30      Registration (Hotel do Templo)

      09.00 - 11.00      Session 4: War, Empire & Trade (I)  (5 parallel panels)

Panel A:  4 papers, 20 min/per person and debate 40 minutes (Room Torre, Colunata Evento)

Chair: Jane Knodell (University of Vermont, USA; jknodell@uvm.edu)

Jane Knodell (University of Vermont, USA)

Shifting shares of hard and soft money in the nineteenth century US

Anders Ögren (University of Uppsala, Sweden)

How warfare influenced the development of paper currency: the case of eighteenth century Sweden

Alejandra Irigoin (College of New Jersey, USA)

Explaining political instability and monetary volatility in early 19th century Buenos Aires

John James (University of Virginia, USA) & David Weiman (Barnard College, USA)

Towards a More Perfect American Payments Union: The Role of the Civil War in Forging a National Payments System

Panel B: 3 papers, 25 min/per person and debate 45 minutes (Room Casino, Colunata Evento)

Chair - Erik Benson (Cornerstone University, USA; erik_benson@cornerstone.edu)

Roger Lloyd-Jones (Sheffield Hallam University, UK)

The Armament Firms the State Procurement System and the Emergence of a Naval Industrial Complex in Edwardian Britain

Jari Eloranta & Jeremy Land (Appalachian State University, USA)

 Hollow Victory: Britain’s National Debt and the Seven Years’ War

Virag Rab (University of Pécs, Hungary)

The Chances and the Barriers of International Financial Experts to Solve the Direct and Indirect Consequences of the First World War

Panel C: 4 papers, 20 min/per person and debate 40 minutes (Room Templo, Hotel Templo)

Chair - James Stitt (High Point University, USA; jstitt@highpoint.edu)

Marie Christine Duggan (Keene State College, USA)

Through a Mahalanobis Lens: Growth and Transformation in Colonial California

Daniel Hidalgo Castillo & Miguel Bosa (University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain)

Enterprises at the middle Atlantic (Canary Islands and West Africa, 1850-1914)

Morten Jerven (Simon Fraser University, Canada)

Colonial copper and post-colonial diamonds: boom and bust in Zambia and Botswana compared c. 1900 - 2000

Photis Baroutsos (University of Patras, Greece)

Venetian Colonialism and Commercialization: State-engineered Business or State Building?

Panel D: 4 papers, 20 min/per person and debate 40 minutes (Room Arcada, Hotel Elevador)

Chair - Laurence Malone (Hartwick College, USA; malonel@hartwick.edu)

Sami Bensassi (University Jaume I, Spain)

From Regional to Intercontinental Trade; How the European Trade Companies of the XVI and XVII century have mastered

Time and Space?

Guillaume Daudin (Université Lille-I, France)

The rise of Europe and Atlantic trade: did national institutions do it?

Michael Huberman (University of Montréal, Canada) & Christopher Meissner (University of California-Davis, USA)

Riding the Wave of Trade: Explaining the Rise of Labor Regulation in the Golden Age of Globalization

Peter Maw (Swansea University, UK)

London and the supply of textiles to eighteenth-century America

Panel E: 4 papers, 20 min/per person and debate 40 minutes (Room Lazer, Hotel Elevador)

Chair - Inês Amorim (University of Porto, Portugal; iamorim@letras.up.pt)

Christopher Ebert (Brooklyn College, USA)

Centering Salvador da Bahia: the structure of trade in the South Atlantic, 1654-1763

Lynne Doti (Chapman University, USA)

Financing the 1920s Real Estate Boom in California

Robert Nash (University of Manchester, UK)

The Reluctant Slave Trader: Humphrey Morice and the Rise and Fall of London's Slave Trade, 1700-1730

Mehmet Bulut (Baskent University, Turkey)

The Composition of Ottoman-English Trade in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

11.00 - 11.15      Refreshment Break (Room Colunata Evento)

11.15 - 13.15      Session 5: Transport, Technology & Societal Change (5 parallel panels)

Panel A:  4 papers, 20 min/per person and debate 40 minutes (Room Templo, Hotel Templo)

Chair - Lynne Doti (Chapman University, USA; ldoti@chapman.edu)

Tânia Souza (PUC Minas – Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais, Brazil)

Where the sun never shines: British gold mining companies in 19th century Minas Gerais

Eline Poelmans (Catholic University Leuven, Belgium)

The different types of 'mixed economy' and their effect on the regional concentration of the ECSC's coal companies

 (1952-1967)

Fábio Carlos da Silva (University of Pará, Brazil)

The emblematic history of the National Brazilian Mining Association 1812-1912

Pedro Goulart & Arjun Bedi (Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands)

Child Labour in Portugal in Historical Perspective

Panel B: 3 papers, 25 min/per person and debate 45 minutes (Room Lazer, Hotel Elevador)

Chair - Stephanie Crofton (High Point University, USA; scrofton@highpoint.edu)

Maria Elvira Callapez (Lusophone University of Humanities and Technologies, Portugal)

Technology Transfer and the Portuguese Polymer Industry - The Case of  PVC

Mathias Mutz (University of Göttingen, Germany)

Going Global – Acting Local. Siemens on the Chinese Electrical Engineering Market, 1904-1937c

Inês Amorim (University of Porto, Portugal)

An environmental narrative of change – salt landscape and the “culture of work” from the 15th to 19th centuries

Panel C: 4 papers, 20 min/per person and debate 40 minutes (Room Casino, Colunata Evento)

Chair - Wade Shilts (Luther College, USA; shiltswa@luther.edu)

Laurence Malone (Hartwick College, USA)

The Infrastructural Investment Cycle Revisited

Frederick Gates (Southwestern Oklahoma State University, USA)

Canal or Railroad? The Role of the Georgia Board of Public Works in the Creation of Transportation Policy in early 19^th Century Georgia

James Stitt  (High Point University, USA)

C’Licence and the Defense of Liberty

Erik Benson (Cornerstone University, USA)

Obvious Advantages, Active Purposes, and a Poor Joke: The British Government and British West Indian Airways, 1940-46

Panel D: 4 papers, 20 min/per person and debate 40 minutes (Room Torre, Colunata Evento)

Chair - Janice Traflet (Bucknell University, USA; jtraflet@bucknell.edu)

Mark Billings (Nottingham University Business School, University of Nottingham, Uk) & Alan Booth (University of Exeter, Uk)

National Giro: Taking Jobs to Merseyside in the Late 1960s

Fernando Zanella (United Arab Emirates University, UAE)

Sometimes by accident, sometimes by design: the role of outcasts and exiles to secure and expand the Portuguese settlements in Brazil

José Martínez-Carrión & Francisco Medina-Albaladejo (University of Murcia, Spain)

Evolution and recent developments of Spanish wine sector, 1950-2008

Javier Roca (University Pablo de Olavide, Spain)

Agricultural cycle and textile industry: a hypothesis for contrasting                                                  

Panel E: 3 papers, 25 min/per person and debate 45 minutes (Room Arcada, Hotel Elevador)

Chair - Fernando Lopes (University of the Azores, Portugal; flopes@uac.pt)

Danielle Kellogg (Brooklyn College, USA)

Factors in Determining Residence in Ancient Attica

Maurizio Lupo (National Council of Research, Italy)

Inventors, inventions and patents in the Italian Mezzogiorno during the first half of XIXth century: some considerations about the diffusion of technological progress in a peripheral area (1810-1860)

George Watley (University of Northampton, UK)

The role of compulsory education in shaping the consumption behavior amongst Caribbean people in Northamptonshire

England c. 1955-1985

        13.15 - 14.45     Lunch break (Colunata Evento, for those booked at Group Hotel Bom Jesus)

15.00 - 16.00    EBHS Board of trustees meeting (Room Torre Colunata Evento)

16.00                    Ferreira Porto Wine Cellars Tour (meeting point: Largo do Coreto)

19.30                   Evening Banquet  at  "Casa Ferreirinha" Ferreira Porto Wine Cellars (Vila Nova de Gaia)

Saturday  29  May   2010

     08.00 - 10.30     Registration (Hotel do Templo)

     08.00 - 09.00     EBHS members business meeting (Room Torre Colunata Evento)

      09:00 - 10.30      Session 6: Theory, Methodology & Historiography (3 Parallel Panels); War, Empire & Trade (II) (1 Panel)

Panel A:  3 papers, 20 min/per person and debate 30 minutes (Room Arcada, Hotel Elevador)

Chair - Jason Taylor (Central Michigan University, USA; taylo2je@cmich.edu)

Roger Lloyd Jones (Sheffield Hallam University, UK), Geoff J. Timmins (University of Central Lancashire, UK) & David Nicholls (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)

Quantitative Easing: addressing the deficit in teaching quantitative history

Marc Jacquinet (Universidade Aberta, Portugal)

Theory of the firm and the Law: The legal origin of corporations as contribution to the theory of the firm and business history

Fermín Allende (University of the Basque Country, Spain)

Fictional Literature as a means of understanding Economic History

Panel B:  3 papers, 20 min/per person and debate 30 minutes (Room Casino, Colunata Evento)

Chair - Daniel Giedeman (Grand Valley State University, USA; giedemad@gvsu.edu)

Elsa Sarmento (University of Aveiro, Portugal) & Alcina Nunes (Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, Portugal)

Entrepreneurship Performance Indicators for employer enterprises in Portugal

Maria Teresa Ramirez (Central Bank of Colombia, Colombia), Daniel Mejia (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia) & Jorge Tamayo (Central Bank of Colombia, Colombia)

The Demographic Transition in Colombia: Theory and evidence

Michael Coyne (Fairfield University, USA)

A Historical Examination of the Mark to Market Accounting Rule and the Politics Underlying its Development

Panel C:  2 papers, 30 min/per person and debate 30 minutes (Room Templo, Hotel Templo)

Chair - Jari Eloranta (Appalachian State University, USA; elorantaj@appstate.edu)

Joe Martin (University of Toronto, Canada)

Establishing a Business History Program in a Graduate School of Business

Wade Shilts (Luther College, USA)

Selling Economic and Business History in a Gen Y world:  Challenges for the Undergraduate Classroom

Panel D: 3 papers, 20 min/per person and debate 30 minutes (Room Lazer, Hotel Elevador)

Chair - Manuel J. Rocha Armada (University of Minho, Portugal; mjrarmada@gmail.com)   

Cláudia Henriques (University of Algarve, Portugal)

Economy and Cultural Travel. The case study of the economic impacts of two world exhibition in Lisbon related to Portuguese Discoveries of XV-XVII Centuries

Stéphanie Collet (Free University of Brussels, Belgium)

How Big is the Financial Penalty for Dictator? The Case of the Cuban Bonds

Kim Oosterlinck (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)

The Price of Degenerate Art

10:30 - 11:00        Refreshment Break (Room Colunata Evento)

11:00 - 12:30       Closing session (Room Torre, Colunata Evento): “The Crisis of 2008 and the Crisis of 1931: What have we learned?"

Portuguese Minister of State and Finance Prof. Fernando Teixeira dos Santos (Faculdade de Economia do Porto, University of Porto, Portugal)

Prof. Michael Bordo (Rutgers University, USA)

Prof. Jaime Reis (Instituto de Ciências Sociais — University of Lisbon, Portugal)

Chair of the EBHS 2010 Conference Organizing Committee:

Maria Cristina Moreira, Department of Economics, School of Economics and Management , University of Minho, Braga

2010 Program Chair
Neil Forbes, Conventry University

Members, Local Organizing Committee:

José Viriato Capela, Department of History, Institute of Social Sciences, University of Minho

José A.Palmeira,  Department of International Relations and Public Administration, School of Economics and Management, University of Minho

 José Lopes Cordeiro, Department of History, Institute of Social Sciences, University of Minho

              Estela Vieira, School of Economics and Management, University of Minho