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This preliminary programme includes the sessions approved after the first round of proposals.
The second round of session proposals closes on October 1, 2008.

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“African Business Histories: Business and Enterprise in Africa, since the nineteenth century.”  
A 'Parallel and Contrast' study of Natural Environment and Resources Use in the Early Modern Villages: the commons and communities in Japanese and English rural societies, 1590-1870 
A critical re-examination of demographic and economic crises in western Europe during the period of the Ancien Régime and XIXth Century 
Automation and mechanisation of financial services  
Between Empire and Nation States: Continuity and Change in the Economies of the Middle East and North Africa in the 20th Century 
Bourgeois Virtues, Netherlands to Japan, 1600-1914 
China’s Southwest Frontier Areas in Early Economic Globalization 
Coin circulation in Central Europe 
Company Towns in International Comparative Perspective 
Do EU accession and membership help to overcome economic backwardness? 
Economic and Monetary History of 19-20 centuries’ South-East Europe 
Empirical studies in African Economic History 
Entrepreneurial Minorities and the Modern Economic Growth, XIX - early XX Centuries 
Female Economic Strategies - Work, Family or Public Assistance 
India-The Global Hub: The Onset of Globalization Re-Visited 
Industrial Revolutions and their Globalizing Outcomes in the Eastern Countries (1750-2000) 
Innovation without patents (XVIII-XIX centuries)  
Institutions, Markets and Capital Flows from the 1880s to the present: Why are Financial Centres attractive? 
Insurance in History 
International Banking in Asia, 19th-20th centuries 
Medieval Central- and Southeast Europe: Towards a New Economic and Social History 
Merchant Colonies in the Context of the International Commerce in the Early Modern Period 
Monetary Policy in the peripheries under the gold standard  
Money as commodity 
Mountain Pastoralism and Modernity 
Occupational health: issues and actors (XVIIIe – XXe centuries) 
Political Economy and Institutions in Early Modern States 
Proto-Globalization: Commercial Networks & Consortiums in the Early Modern Age 
Regulation and deregulation in the public utilities from the 19th Century to today 
Re-inventing the European City: Challenges and Responses since 1950 
Responses of economic systems to environmental change: past experiences 
Revisiting Money As A Unified Unit Of Account From A Complementary Viewpoint 
Self-Organising Networks and Trading Cooperation: GIS tools in the visualization of the Atlantic Economic expansion. (1400-1800) 
Shift from the North Sea/Baltic to the Atlantic in the economy and political power, 1500-1800 
Small is beautiful – Interlopers in Early Modern World Trade. The Experience of Smaller Tading Nations and Companies in the Pre-Industrial Period 
State and Institutions in Colonial India 
Strategy and Conflict: Business and Labor in Latin America 
The choice of exchange rate regime in historical perspective 
The city and the technical networks. Economic, financial and technological aspects (XIXth-XXth centuries) 
The development of the rural economy and the ‘demesne lordship’ (Gutsherrschaft): East-central Europe, c. 1500-c. 1800 
The Global Economic History of Bauxite. 
The Historical Determinants of Entrepreneurship, 1800-2000 
The Iberian Transatlantic Commercial World in an era of Reform and War, 1750-1821 
The Micro-structure, Regulation and Development of Stock Markets Around The World 
The origin of decisions: numbers, data and statistics in the twentieth century 
The role of trust in the development of finance and commerce 
The spending of states. Military expenditure during the long eighteenth century : patterns, organisation, and consequences, 1650-1815. 
The Transformation of the International Order of Asia in the 1950s and 1960s 
Urban fiscal systems and economic growth in Europe, 15th-18th centuries 
War and Economic History: A Global Perspective of the Centuries before World War I 
Women’s intergenerational role in business family strategies and social and economic mobility, sixteenth to twentieth century