08 Nov 2006

Middlemen and Networks: Economic, Social and Cultural Foundations of the Global Economy Conference [selected "Asia" Papers]
Institute of Governmental Affairs UC Davis, University of California, San Diego, CA, US
Self description: "[A conference on] Middlemen and Networks: Economic, Social and Cultural Foundations of the Global Economy November 3-5, 2006 University of California, San Diego. Co-sponsored by the All-UC Economic History and All-UC World History Groups."
Site contents: [a list of full-text Asia-related conference papers (in PDF format) - ed.] "Similitude and Empire: The Symbolic Economy of Affinity in the Western Indian Ocean" Jeremy Prestholdt (UC San Diego); "Europeans Abroad, 1400-1700: Strangers in Not-so-Strange Lands" David Ringrose (UC Davis); "Ginseng, Silver and Borders in East Asia" Seonmin Kim (University of North Carolina at Greeensboro); "The Role of Financial Conglomerates in Industry Formation: Evidence from Early Modern Japan" John Tang (UC Berkeley); "Trade, Institutions and Religious Tolerance: Evidence from India" Saumitra Jha (Harvard Academy); "Middlemen and Middlewomen: Sex Trafficking Networks in Japanese Open Ports in the Nineteenth Century" Ann Marie L. Davis (UCLA); "Imperial Education: Western Colleges and Native Intermediaries in Colonial Mexico and the British Raj" Sjahari S. Pullom (UC San Diego); "Port-based Research and Globalization in the World War I Era" William D. Wray (University of British Columbia); "Manila: An International Trade Port at the End of the Eighteenth Century" Marina Alfonso Mola and Carlos Martinez Shaw (Universidad Nacional de Educaci—n a Distancia Madrid, Spain); "Middlemen and Marcher States in Central Asia and East/West Growth/ Decline Synchrony" Christopher Chase-Dunn, Thomas D. Hall, Richard Niemeyer, Alexis Alvarez, Horoko Inoue, Kirk Lawrence, Anders Carlson, Benjamin Fierro, Matthew Kanashiro, Hala Sheikh-Mohamed, Laura Young (Institute for Research on World-Systems, UC Riverside).
URL http://iga.ucdavis.edu/All-UCGroup.html
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