Spring 2011

Title

Speaker

Date

The informal credit market in eighteenth-century Amsterdam

Christiaan van Bochove and Heleen Kole (UU)

03-02-11

The business of consuls: Consuls and business

Ferry de Goey (EUR)

10-02-11

The Child Quantity-Quality Trade-Off: Evidence from England during the Industrial Revolution

Jacob Weisdorf (University of Copenhagen)

17-02-11

The fabric of society. The organization of textile manufacturing in the Middle East and Europe, c. 700 - c. 1500

Jessica Dijkman (UU)

24-02-11

Labour productivity and human capital in the maritime sector of the North Atlantic, c. 1672-1815

Jelle van Lottum (University of Cambridge)

10-03-11

Bargaining power and women's health in rural Ethiopia

Bilisuma Dito (EUR)

17-03-11

Imitation, Brand Protection and the Globalisation of British Business

Appendices

Teresa da Silva Lopes (University of York)

24-03-11

Estimating and explaining public service provision by religious organisations in the late-medieval Low Countries

Auke Rijpma (UU)

31-03-11

The art of counting. Reconstructing numeracy of the well-to-do on the basis of portraits in Early Modern Europe

Tine de Moor and Jaco Zuijderduijn (UU)

07-04-11

Settlement development in the Casentino Valley (Tuscany), 1000-1580. A new perspective on late medieval commercialisation and the relationship between city and countryside.

Dan Curtis (UU)

14-04-11