A one day workshop sponsored by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Centre de Recherches Historiques (CRH-EHESS) with the support of the journal Histoire & Mesure.

Programme

9.30. Registration – tea/coffee

10.00. Welcome and introduction

10.15-11.30. Session 1.

• Daniel Baugh, Cornell University Public and Parliamentary Concern, and Unconcern, about British Naval Spending in the Eighteenth Century, 1689-1789’.
• Anne L. Murphy, University of Hertfordshire The performance of public credit during the late eighteenth century

Break

11.45-13.00. Session 2

• Rafael Torres-Sanchez, University of Navarra The relief of the vassals. Absolutism and fiscal transparency in eighteenth-century Spain.
• Alberto Feenstra, University of Amsterdam Excesses of which state? The sovereign province of Groningen’s failed experiment with the free capital market in Holland, 1660-1761.

Lunch

14.00-15.15. Session 3

• Mathieu Marraud, EHESS-CRH (Paris) Reducing guilds’ debt in 18^th century Paris: royal publicity, liberation and coercion.
• Jérome Loiseau, University of Besancon Knowing as a means of controlling: financial knowledge and its circulation at the end of the Ancien Régime in some French provincial estates

Tea/Coffee

15.45-17.00. Session 4

• Patrik Winton, University of Uppsala Sweden 1750–1830: parliamentary control, public discussions and royal autonomy
• Joel Felix, University of Reading The long march towards public accountability in Europe: hurdles and leaps.

Practical details

• Venue: University of Reading, Palmer Building 103
• Bursaries: a limited number of travel bursaries are available to PG students
• Booking: There is no fee to attend this event, but places are limited; you are kindly requested to register by emailing Mrs Amanda Harvey (a.h.harvey@reading.ac.uk)
• Directions: http://www.reading.ac.uk/about/find/about-findindex.aspx
• Full details and abstracts http://blogs.reading.ac.uk/economic-history/2014/03/10/4th-april-2014-the-excesses-of-the-state-administrative-control-or-political-transparency-17th-19th-century-europe/

A one day workshop sponsored by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Centre de Recherches Historiques (CRH-EHESS) with the support of the journal Histoire & Mesure.