Spring 2010

Title

Speaker

Date

Why Was It that Europeans Conquered the World?

Philip Hoffman (Caltech)

14-01-10

War and the Silent Women: The retrieval of Chinese and European Jewish women’s narratives of World War II

Harriet Zurndorfer (Leiden University)

21-01-10

Educational transition and literacy gaps in Latin America during the twentieth century

Figures

Appendix 

Ame Berges (University of London)

04-02-10

Productivity growth in personal services from lagging to leading: how motion pictures industrialised entertainment

Appendices

Gerben Bakker (London School of Economics)

11-02-10

Really the first bubble: Speculation in shares in mines in the Saxon Erzgebirge (c. 1470-c. 1530)

Stuart Jenks (Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)

18-02-10

Intermediaries and the secondary market for government bonds in the Dutch Republic

Christiaan van Bochove (Utrecht University)

25-02-10

Intoxicants and the Formation of Early Modern Society

Phil Withington (King’s College Cambridge)

04-03-10

An Admiralty for Asia. The Corporate Governance of the Dutch East India Company

Oscar Gelderblom (UU), Abe de Jong (EUR) and Joost Jonker (UU)

11-03-10

Spending, saving or investing? The asset management of 16th century Holland households.

Tables and figures

Tine de Moor and Jaco Zuijderduijn (Utrecht University)

18-03-10

Coordination in Dutch business; the sequence of collusive practices, 1900-2000

Bram Bouwens and Joost Dankers (Utrecht University)

25-03-10