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8th Annual
Appalachian Spring Conference
in World History and Economics
How Did Europeans Come to Rule the World?
Time and Place: Saturday, April 20th, 2012,
Raley Hall, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC
Registration and Keynote Address – Raley Hall 1015
8:00-9:00am:
Light Refreshments and Registration
9:00-9:05am:
Welcome to the Conference – Mr. Jeremy Land – University of
Tennessee, Knoxville
9:05-9:10am:
Welcome from Appalachian State University – Vice Provost, Dr. Tony
Carey – Appalachian State University
9:10-9:15am:
Introduction of the Keynote Speaker – Dr. Jari Eloranta – Appalachian
State University
9:15-10:30am:
Keynote Address: Dr. Philip Hoffman – California Institute of Technology
10:30-11:00am
Coffee and Refreshments
Concurrent Sessions
11:00am-12:30pm
Raley Hall 1012
Session A: State Policy and
Markets
Chair: Dr. Tanga McDaniel
(Appalachian State
University)
Dr. Pavel Osinsky
(Appalachian State
University): Siege Economics
as an Institutional Precursor
of State Socialism
Discussant: Dr. Jeff Bortz
(Appalachian State
University)
Raley Hall 1013
Session B: Banking and
Commerce
Chair: Dr. Antonio Bly
(Appalachian State
University)
Mr. Matthew Menarchek
(University of Tennessee,
Knoxville): Land, Banking,
and Political Economy in
Tennessee, 1796-1830
Discussant: Dr. Jeff
Broadwater (Barton College)
Raley Hall 1015
Session C: Social Memory
and Archival Research
Chair: Ms. Maggie Yancey
(University of Tennessee,
Knoxville)
Mr. Robert Glaze (University
of Tennessee, Knoxville): Lost
Cause Brushstrokes: Robert E.
Lee and Nathan Bedford
Forrest in Civil War Artwork
Discussant: Dr. Judkin
Browning (Appalachian State
University)
Dr. Brendan Livingston
(Rowan University): Murder
and the Black Market:
Prohibition's Impact on
Homicide Rates in American
Cities
Discussant: Dr. Robert
Whaples (Wake Forest
University)
Mr. Benjamin Sawyer
(Michigan State University):
Rule of None: Soviet State
Policy and the Rise and Fall
of NEP-era Institutions in the
1920s
Discussant: Dr. Pavel Osinsky
(Appalachian State
University)
Mr. Steven Higley (Ohio State
University): Banking and
Counter-Revolution in PostRevolutionary Mexico
Discussant: Dr. Joseph
Gonzalez (Appalachian State
University)
Ms. Rachel Lovelace-Portal
(Appalachian State
University): Open-Air
National Museums
Discussant: Mr. Trent Margrif
(Appalachian State
University)
Dr. Babak Rahimi (University
of California, San Diego): ECommerce and Sanctions: The
Case of Iran
Discussant: Dr. Jari Eloranta
(Appalachian State
University)
Dr. Mark Wilson (West
Virginia University Tech):
Using Archival Research in
Economics
Discussant: Dr. Giovanni
Zanalda (Duke University)
12:30-2:00pm
Lunch – Raley Hall 2017 (2nd Floor)
(Must have pre-registered for this event)
Concurrent Sessions
2:00-3:30pm
Raley Hall 1013
Session D: Innovation in History
Chair: Dr. Jeremiah Kitunda (Appalachian
State University)
Dr. Craig H. Caldwell, III (Appalachian State
University): The Promise and Peril of
Trimetallism in the Roman Empire
Discussant: Dr. Scott Jessee (Appalachian
State University)
Mr. Nathan Love (Appalachian State
University): From Field to Field: The Training
of the Mongol Steppe Warrior
Discussant: Dr. Anatoly Isaenko (Appalachian
State University)
Dr. Leonard Dudley (Université de Montréal):
The Uniqueness of Western Innovation, 17001850
Discussant: Dr. George Ehrhardt (Appalachian
State University)
Raley Hall 1015
Session E: Labor and Social Policy
Chair: Dr. Dorothea Martin (Appalachian State
University)
Dr. Samuel Allen (Virginia Military Institute):
The Impact of Progressive Era Labor
Regulations on the Manufacturing Labor
Market
Discussant: Dr. Hugh Hindman (Appalachian
State University)
Mr. Jeremy Land (University of Tennessee,
Knoxville) Upsetting the Balance: Boston
Workers during British Occupation, 1768-1775
Discussant: Dr. Philip Hoffman (California
Institute of Technology)
Ms. Jennifer Rogers (Iowa State University):
European influence on Birth Control Practices
and Policies in Colonies and Former Colonies
Discussant: Dr. Lynne Getz (Appalachian State
University)
3:30-4:00pm
Coffee and Refreshments
Concurrent Sessions
4:00-5:00 pm
Raley Hall 1013
Session F: Public Debt
Chair: Dr. Onur Ince (Appalachian State
University)
Dr. Jari Eloranta, Mr. Matthew Holloway
(Appalachian State University) and Dr. Jyrki
Johannes Lessig (University of Jyvaskyla):
From Globalization to Crises: Public Debts
and the Development of Financial Markets,
1870-1938
Discussant: Dr. Mark Strazicich (Appalachian
State University)
Dr. Carlos Alvarez-Nogal (Universidad Carlos
III de Madrid) and Dr. Christophe Chamley
(Boston University): Debt Policy under
Constraints between Philip II, the Cortes and
Genoese Bankers
Discussant: Dr. Edward Behrend-Martinez
(Appalachian State University)
Raley Hall 1015
Session G: Politics and Philosophy
Chair: Mr. J. L. Tomlin (University of
Tennessee, Knoxville)
Mr. Ralph Lentz (Appalachian State
University): Against Satanic Economics: St.
Thomas Aquinas' Theology of Virtue and
Political Economy
Discussant: Dr. Michael Behrent
(Appalachian State University)
Dr. Robert Calhoon (UNC-Greensboro): John
Locke, Adam Smith, and the Social
Construction of Property Rights
Discussant: Dr. Michael Behrent
(Appalachian State University)
5:30pm
Dinner – (Must Register in Advance)
(Meet at Registration Desk on 1st Floor of Raley Hall)
Special Thanks To:
ASU History Department
ASU College of Arts and Sciences
ASU Office of International Education and Development
ASU Business School and Department of Economics
W.W. Norton and Company
Dr. Philip Hoffman
Dr. Hoffman, Professor of Business Economics and History at California Institute of
Technology, is among the leading scholars in the world in the study of financial institutions and
evolution of governments in world history. He has published several books and articles on the
economic history of France, the evolution of financial markets in early modern Europe, and the
development government capacity for innovation and violence. His research focuses on: 1) the
long run evolution of financial institutions and their effect on economic growth; 2) explaining
how the West managed to conquer the world, a topic that mixes politics, economics,
technological change, and two thousand years of global history; 3) measuring and explaining the
long run evolution state capacity in Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and the Americas over the
past millennium. His upcoming book (under contract with Cambridge University Press) is
focused on explaining why the Europeans came to dominate over others in gunpowder
technology.
Representative Recent Publications:
BOOKS:
Philip T. Hoffman, Gilles Postel-Vinay, and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, Priceless Markets: The Political
Economy of Credit in Paris, 1660-1870 (University of Chicago Press, 2000).
Philip T. Hoffman, Gilles Postel-Vinay, and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, Surviving Large Losses Financial
Crises, the Middle Class, and the Development of Capital Markets (Harvard University Press, 2007).
JOURNAL ARTICLES:
Philip T. Hoffman, David Jacks, Patricia Levin, and Peter Lindert, “Prices and Real Inequality in
Europe since 1500,” The Journal of Economic History 62, no. 2 (June 2002): 322-55.
“Prices, The Military Revolution, and Europe’s Comparative Advantage in Violence,” Economic History
Review 64, S1 (2011): 39-59.
“Why Was It Europeans Who Conquered the World,” forthcoming, The Journal of Economic
History.