Fall 2009

Title

Speaker

Date

Historical National Accounts for Britain, 1300-1850: Some Preliminary Estimates

Steve Broadberry (Warwick University, UK)

01-10-09

Skill and school. Skill formation and the Dutch business system in the 20th century

Erik Nijhof (Utrecht University)

08-10-09

Great divergences? Eastern and Western Eurasia from ancient political divergence to modern economic divergence

Walter Scheidel (Stanford University, US)

14-10-09

Nobles in Zeeland. Wealth and Power in a Late Medieval Society

Arie van Steensel (Leiden University)

29-10-09

Rejecting the modernization fallacy: Migration in Europe in a global perspective (1500-1900)

Jan Lucassen (IISH/Free University Amsterdam) and Leo Lucassen (Leiden University)

05-11-09

Ibn Khaldun and the causes of economic stagnation and decline

Addendum

Anthony Black (University of Dundee, UK)

11-11-09

Cinemagoing in The Netherlands in the 1930s

Clara Pafort-Overduin (Utrecht University)

19-11-09

'An urban transition: London c. 300-700'

Derek Keene

20-11-09

City seeds: the geographical origins of European cities

Maarten Bosker (RUG/UU) and Eltjo Buringh (UU)

26-11-09