Forthcoming Events
Public Lectures (All Welcome)
Prof. Victor Bulmer-Thomas (ISA, Visiting Professor), "Freedom to Trade, Free Trade, and Laissez-Faire: Latin American Approaches to Economic Liberalism in the Nineteenth Century."
6 June 2012, 5.00-6.30pm. Venue: Chancellor's Hall, Senate House, London
Description: There were at least four stages in the nineteenth-century transition from mercantilism to "free trade". The first involved the freedom to trade with any country; the second led to the application of the same tariffs on imports from all countries. The third required the sharp reduction of the tariff rates themselves. The fourth assumed the subordination of the state to the market. This presentation will explore how far Latin American countries advanced along this continuum in the nineteenth century.
Prof. Jeremy Adelman (Princeton University), "Republicans, Liberals and Constitutions in Nineteenth-Century Latin America."
8 November, 5.30-7.00pm. Venue: G22-26, Senate House, London
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Research Workshops (Places Limited*)
Economic Liberalism in the Americas
6 June 2012, 1.00-5.00pm. STB9, Senate House, London
Description: Liberal economic principles and policies were often at odds with politically liberal agendas across the Americas in the nineteenth century. This workshop examines debates surrounding the definition and application of liberal economic ideas in a comparative context, to establish what local, regional, national and transnational factors shaped economic development in different parts of the Americas during the nineteenth and early twentieth century. The workshop will focus on issues such as land ownership, banking, monetary and taxation systems, international trade, and international finance, and will compare case studies from Mexico, Argentina, Peru and the United States in the context of the broader international and global situation.
Confirmed Participants: Dr Helga Baitenmann (Associate Fellow, ISA), Dr William Pettigrew (Kent), Dr Alejandra Irigoin (LSE), Prof. Colin Lewis (LSE), Mr Tom Cutterham (St Hugh's College, Oxford), Prof. Rosemary Thorp (Latin American Centre, Oxford), Prof. Paul Gootenberg (SUNY), Prof. Alan Knight (St Anthony's College, Oxford).
This event is generously sponsored by the Economic History Society and the Society for Latin American Studies.
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*Places are limited at all workshops. Please send expressions of interest to deborah.toner@sas.ac.uk
