> 1763 and All That:
> Temptations of Empire in the British World
> During the Decade After the Seven Years' War
>
> Call for papers for a conference to be held on February 25th and
> 26th, 2010, at the University of Texas at Austin, sponsored by the
> Department of History’s Institute for Historical Studies.
>
> The focus of the conference is the British Empire during its "decade
> of crisis" between the end of the Seven Years' War in 1763 and the
> passage of the Tea Act ten years later.  Over the course of this
> decade, Britons drastically transformed the way they viewed
> themselves and their empire.  For the first time, British imperial
> policy extended to the governance of the French Catholic inhabitants
> of Canada, the Native people of the trans-Appalachian interior of
> North America, Africans in the new colony of Senegambia, and the
> twenty million inhabitants of Bengal subject to the authority of the
> East India Company.  In Britain itself, the governance of this
> vastly extended empire engendered an enormous amount of bitter
> debate and anxious discussion in the halls of power as well as in
> the popular press. Among historians of each of the different parts
> of the British World,  this decade has long been seen as one of
> crucial importance. However, while invaluable work has been done to
> examine British and indigenous relations and exchanges in specific
> colonial contexts, as well to examine connections between the
> metropolis and specific colonial regions, there has been as yet few
> attempts to interrogate the links across and between the colonial
> regions and to set developments in particular regions into the
> context of the transformation of the British Empire as a whole.  We
> aim to address this need by bringing scholars working on various
> aspects of the British World into dialogue and debate over the
> causes and character of the imperial transformation of the 1760s and
> early 1770s.
>
> We invite submissions for individual papers on these themes.  Please
> note that the conference will be organized around the discussion of
> pre-circulated papers.  Accepted papers must be submitted for
> circulation to participants no later than February 1, 2010.   Each
> proposal should include a brief précis of the paper topic and a
> clear indication of how the paper will undertake to connect the
> specific research subject to larger events and processes taking
> place across the British Empire.    The deadline for receiving
> proposals is September 1, 2009.
>
> Paper proposals (as well a brief C.V.) should be submitted via e-
> mail to the conference organizers, Robert Olwell and James Vaughn,
> at: historyinstitute@austin.utexas.edu. Please send all queries to
> the same address.
>
> For more information on the Institute for Historical Studies at the
> University of Texas at Austin, see:
> http://www.utexas.edu/cola/insts/historicalstudies/

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