Meeting of the Caltech Early Modern Group

Friday, April 8, 2016

Fate and Fortune in Enterprises

Sessions will be take place in 237 Baxter

8:30-9:00 Coffee

9:00 AM Oscar Gelderblom & Francesca Trivellato, The Funding of Small-Scale Business in Pre-Industrial Europe

10-min break

10:10 AM Veronica Santorosa, What can we learn about the embeddedness of commercial relationships from the study of powers of attorney? (France, 18th-19th centuries)

10-min break

11:20 PM Amanda Gregg, Vertical Integration in Russian Cotton Textiles

12:20pm Lunch – Athenaeum – East Patio

1:45 PM Maura Dykstra, Contract, Partnership, and the Firm in Late Imperial Long-Distance Commerce

10-min break

2:55 PM Michael Aldous, Reassessing the “absurd, hated and pernicious principle of managing agency”: The Role of Hybrid Ownership Forms in the 19th Century Anglo-Indian Trade

10-min break

4:05 PM Dan Bogart, “There can be no partnership with the King”: Political Instability and the English East India Company

Download full set of papers and program here

Dinner