8 th Annual Appalachian Spring Conference in World History and Economics How Did Europeans Come to Rule the World?

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1 8 th Annual Appalachian Spring Conference in World History and Economics How Did Europeans Come to Rule the World? Saturday, April 20 th, 2013 Raley Hall, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC Registration and Keynote Address Raley Hall :00-9:00am: 9:00-9:05am: 9:05-9:10am: 9:10-9:15am: 9:15-10:30am: Light Refreshments and Registration Welcome to the Conference Mr. Jeremy Land University of Tennessee, Knoxville Welcome from Appalachian State University Vice Provost, Dr. Tony Carey Appalachian State University Introduction of the Keynote Speaker Dr. Jari Eloranta Appalachian State University Keynote Address: Dr. Philip Hoffman California Institute of Technology 10:30-11:00am Coffee and Refreshments

2 11:00am-12:30pm Raley Hall 1012 Raley Hall 1013 Raley Hall 1015 Session A: State Policy and Markets Session B: Banking and Commerce Session C: Social Memory and Archival Research Chair: Dr. Tanga McDaniel Chair: Dr. Antonio Bly Chair: Ms. Maggie Yancey (University of Tennessee, Knoxville) Dr. Pavel Osinsky : Siege Economics as an Institutional Precursor of State Socialism Discussant: Dr. Jeff Bortz Mr. Matthew Menarchek (University of Tennessee, Knoxville): Land, Banking, and Political Economy in Tennessee, Discussant: Dr. Jeff Broadwater (Barton College) 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 Dr. Brendan Livingston (Rowan : Murder and the Black Market: Prohibition's Impact on Homicide Rates in American Cities Discussant: Dr. Robert Whaples (Wake Forest Mr. Benjamin Sawyer (Michigan State : Rule of None: Soviet State Policy and the Rise and Fall of NEP-era Institutions in the 1920s Discussant: Dr. Pavel Osinsky Mr. Steven Higley (Ohio State : Banking and Counter-Revolution in Post- Revolutionary Mexico Discussant: Dr. Joseph Gonzalez Dr. Babak Rahimi (University of California, San Diego): E- Commerce and Sanctions: The Case of Iran Discussant: Dr. Jari Eloranta Ms. Rachel Lovelace-Portal : Open-Air National Museums Discussant: Mr. Trent Margrif Dr. Mark Wilson (West Virginia University Tech): Using Archival Research in Economics Discussant: Dr. Giovanni Zanalda (Duke 12:30-2:00pm Lunch Raley Hall 2017 (2 nd Floor) (Must have pre-registered for this event)

3 2:00-3:30pm Raley Hall 1013 Raley Hall 1015 Session D: Innovation in History Session E: Labor and Social Policy Chair: Dr. Jeremiah Kitunda (Appalachian Chair: Dr. Dorothea Martin State Dr. Craig H. Caldwell, III Dr. Samuel Allen (Virginia Military Institute): : The Promise and Peril of The Impact of Progressive Era Labor Trimetallism in the Roman Empire Regulations on the Manufacturing Labor Discussant: Dr. Scott Jessee (Appalachian Market State Discussant: Dr. Hugh Hindman (Appalachian Mr. Nathan Love : From Field to Field: The Training of the Mongol Steppe Warrior Discussant: Dr. Anatoly Isaenko (Appalachian State Dr. Leonard Dudley (Université de Montréal): The Uniqueness of Western Innovation, Discussant: Dr. George Ehrhardt (Appalachian State State Mr. Jeremy Land (University of Tennessee, Knoxville) Upsetting the Balance: Boston Workers during British Occupation, Discussant: Dr. Philip Hoffman (California Institute of Technology) Ms. Jennifer Rogers (Iowa State : European influence on Birth Control Practices and Policies in Colonies and Former Colonies Discussant: Dr. Lynne Getz 3:30-4:00pm Coffee and Refreshments

4 4:00-5:00 pm Raley Hall 1013 Raley Hall 1015 Session F: Public Debt Session G: Politics and Philosophy Chair: Dr. Onur Ince Chair: Mr. J. L. Tomlin (University of Tennessee, Knoxville) Dr. Jari Eloranta, Mr. Matthew Holloway Mr. Ralph Lentz and Dr. Jyrki : Against Satanic Economics: St. Johannes Lessig (University of Jyvaskyla): Thomas Aquinas' Theology of Virtue and From Globalization to Crises: Public Debts Political Economy and the Development of Financial Markets, Discussant: Dr. Michael Behrent Discussant: Dr. Mark Strazicich (Appalachian State Dr. Carlos Alvarez-Nogal (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) and Dr. Christophe Chamley (Boston : Debt Policy under Constraints between Philip II, the Cortes and Genoese Bankers Discussant: Dr. Edward Behrend-Martinez Dr. Robert Calhoon (University of North Carolina, Greensboro): John Locke, Adam Smith, and the Social Construction of Property Rights Discussant: Dr. Michael Behrent 5:30pm Dinner (Must Register in Advance) (Meet at Registration Desk on 1 st Floor of Raley Hall) Special Thanks To: ASU History Department ASU College of Arts and Sciences ASU Office of International Education and Development ASU Walker College of Business ASU Department of Economics W.W. Norton and Company

5 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, (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): Prices, The Military Revolution, and Europe s Comparative Advantage in Violence, Economic History Review 64, S1 (2011): Why Was It Europeans Who Conquered the World, forthcoming, The Journal of Economic History.

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