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[Ed note: Cross-posted from EH-Net] From: Christopher Lloyd <Chris.Lloyd@metz.une.edu.au> To: EH.News@eh.net Subject: EH.N: CfP: Deadline Extended: Settler Economies in World History ----------------- EH.NEWS POSTING ----------------- SETTLER ECONOMIES IN WORLD HISTORY Call for Papers - Deadline extended until June 30, 2004. Twentieth International Congress of Historical Sciences Sydney Australia, July 3-9, 2005 Session sponsored by the International Economic History Association Further details of the session can be found at the IEHA homepage. http://www.neha.nl/ieha/index.html Please send offers to all three Organizers: Prof. Christopher Lloyd, University of New England, Armidale, Australia Chris.Lloyd@metz.une.edu.au Prof. Jacob Metzer, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel msmetzer@mscc.huji.ac.il Prof. Richard Sutch, University of California, Riverside, USA Richard.sutch@ucr.edu Call for Participation The proposed session is intended to be the first step in a three-stage project designed to improve our understanding of differences among the various settler economies and to better situate settler economies within the constellation of national economic structures. The second stage of the project will take place at the International Economic History Congress to be held in Helsinki, Finland, August 21-25, 2006. Details of the session planned for the Helsinki 2006 Congress will be circulated in early 2005. The final stage is to produce an edited volume on Settler Economies that will be published by a prominent academic press. Papers are invited on any of the topics below or on other suggested topics. Part A - General Conceptual Themes [by the organizers] * Settler Economies within a world historical perspective: Concepts, Regions, and Eras. * The dimensions and impacts of migration of free settlers and the formation of hybrid demographic and social structures Part B - General Comparative Themes [papers invited for Sydney] * Settlers vs. elites in sending countries * Settler-indigenous relations and impacts on indigenes * Labor systems (both free and unfree) * Environmental conditions and impacts of settlement * Diverse experience of economic and social development * Capital flows and developments * Trade flows and developments * Migration, demography, and women's roles * Political development and institutionalization * Other cross-cutting themes Part C - Regional Histories and Comparisons (emphasizing both similarities and differences) [papers invited for Helsinki] * Ancient settler societies, e.g. Greek colonies * Intra-Europe e.g. Ireland, Central Europe, Iceland * Caribbean * North America * Central and South America * Australasia and Oceania * Asian fringe, eg. Manchuria, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Formosa * Eastern and southern Africa * Northern Africa, eg. Algeria * Siberia and Central Asia * Palestine/Israel/the Levant * The Persian Gulf Part D - Conclusions [by the organizers] * Comparative 21st century outcomes and future prospects. Ending of an era and of a socio-economic formation?
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