The Center for Early Modern History invites us to join the fall lecture series, Panic and Plague in 1720 & 2020: The View from Minnesota. In 1720, the Mississippi Company, a project of financial speculation in the Mississippi River region, collapsed. The explosion of this financial bubble coincided and was entangled with the last mass outbreak... Continue Reading →

Volume 54, Number 1, Fall 2020 Special Issue: The South Sea Bubble, Mississippi Bubble, and Financial Revolution Eighteenth-Century Studies is committed to publishing the best of current writing on all aspects of eighteenth-century culture. The journal publishes different modes of analysis and disciplinary discourses that explore how recent historiographical, critical, and theoretical ideas have engaged scholars... Continue Reading →

Paris, 1720. Throngs of frenzied speculators gather on rue Quincampoix, seduced by the promise of spectacular wealth awaiting investors in the Compagnie des Indes. The manic trade in stock shares fuels an unprecedented bull market that culminates in the world’s first international financial disaster: the collapse of the Mississippi and South Sea Bubbles, named after... Continue Reading →

It is our pleasure to invite you to the first two seminars of the Early Modern Financial History online seminar: Tuesday 24 November 2020 via Zoom 8:00-9:00 New York, 13:00-14:00 Lisbon/London, 14:00-15:00 Bern/Amsterdam, 22:00-23:00 Tokyo Claudio Marsilio (Universidade de Lisboa): Rethinking the role of the Genoese bankers in the credit and bullion markets. New evidence... Continue Reading →

Join historians and social scientists to discuss a recent book on the history of capitalism: Yamamoto, Taming Capitalism before its Triumph. Date and Time Tue, 17 Nov 2020Chicago  07:00-09:00 CST New York 08:00-10:00 EST London 13:00-15:00 GMTHong Kong 21:00-23:00 HKT Tokyo 22:00-24:00 JST  Venue and registration Zoom (online) please register at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/taming-capitalism-before-its-triumph-author-meets-critics-online-tickets-126016218903 About this Event The history of... Continue Reading →

Series Editors: John Shovlin, New York University Philip Stern, Duke University Carl Wennerlind, Barnard College This series seeks manuscripts exploring the many dimensions of early modern political economy, and especially the ways in which this period established both foundations for and alternatives to modern capitalist thought and practice. We welcome submissions that examine this history... Continue Reading →

A Webinar of the Dutch-Belgian Society of Eighteenth-century Studies October 15, 13h-14h Amsterdam time 7:00 New York; 12:00 London; 13:00 Amsterdam; 20:00 Tokyo Precisely 300 years ago, the world experienced the very first international financial crisis. In 1720, a financial boom and bust raged from France, England and the Netherlands through Europe and the world.... Continue Reading →

The year 2020 is the tercentenary of the Mississippi Bubble and the South Sea Bubble. Find out more about these 1720 stock market bubbles in the brand new publication entitled 'New history of finance publication:  Boom, Bust, and Beyond. New Perspectives on the 1720 Stock Market Bubble'.   A lot of research has been done on the... Continue Reading →

Due to the COVID-19 outbreak, we have extended the deadline of our call for papers for the DBSECS (Werkgroep 18e Eeuw) conference to 15 May 2020. We hope to be able to have a ‘regular’ conference as planned on 15 October 2020, but we are looking into options for remote participation, also with an eye... Continue Reading →

Volume 38A features a symposium on public finance in the history of economic thought, guest edited By Claire Silvant and Javier San Julián Arrupe. In addition to the guest editors, the symposium includes contributions from Nesrine Bentemessek Kahia, Christina Laskaridis, Richard Sturn, and Samuel Demeulemeester. Volume 38A also includes two interesting general-research essays, written by Cosma Orsi and John Henry, respectively,... Continue Reading →

Please see the link below: https://som.yale.edu/blog/looking-back-300-years-at-the-south-sea-bubble-of-1720?blog=75818

University of Manchester, 3-4 June 2019 Call for Papers Due: 6 March 2020 This conference will explore, analyse, and debate the ways in which morality and ideas of social and economic progress have been entwined in the past and resonate today. Morality and its relationship to economic behaviour has long fascinated historians and social scientists,... Continue Reading →