Fall 2012 | Center for Global Economic History

Title	Speaker	Date
Famines in Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy: a Test for an Advanced Economy	Guido Alfani	04-10-12
Origins of the European Marriage Pattern at the Turn of the Middle Ages from the Perspective of Polish History	Piotr Guzowski (University of Bialystok)	11-10-12
Health, Gender and the Household: Children's Growth in the Marcella Street Home, Boston, MA and the Ashford School, London, UK	Eric Schneider (University of Oxford)	25-10-12
Thinking Long-Term: Economic or Civilizational Analysis	Toby Huff (Goettingen University and Harvard University)	02-11-12
The Textile Industries of Medieval Egypt: Social and Economic Aspects	Yaacov Lev (Bar-Ilan University)	08-11-12
From colonial empires to developing countries and on to emerging economies: the international expansion of the Dutch brewere Heineken, 1930-2010	Keetie Sluyterman & Bram Bouwens (Utrecht University)	15-11-12
Pearls, a girl's best friend? Sri Lankan women's status at the beginning of the 20th century as the roots of their current position	Sarah Carmichael (Utrecht University)	22-11-12
Pearls worth Rds4000 or less: Re-interpreting eighteenth century sumptuary laws at the Cape	Stan du Plessis (Stellenbosch University)	06-12-12
Socio-economic history and language change: urbanisation in England 1400-1700	Anita Auer (Utrecht University)	13-12-12