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  • Utrecht

    Scholarship, prize and job offer - Prehistory and Antiquity

    Post-doctorate researcher in Coinage in Ancient Greece

    Anchoring Work Package 4

    The use of minted coins was one of the major innovations in the ancient world of the first millennium BCE. Invented in Lydia in the seventh century, coinage spread rapidly throughout the Greek world, first in the Greek cities in Asia Minor, next to Aegina and Athens and soon to the other cities across the Aegean and Mediterranean area. Before the introduction of minted coins, exchange was largely based on weights of precious metals, in smaller amounts weighed on scales, a practice to which striking fixed weights of metal seems just a small and logical step. Yet the swift success of coinage, evidenced by rapidly increasing number of Greek poleis adopting the new medium, shows that the potential of coins to surpass weighed bullion in practical use for all kinds of transactions was recognised early on.

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  • Rotterdam

    Call for papers - History

    Économie(s) de la collection naturaliste au XVIIIe siècle

    XIVe congrès international d’étude du XVIIIe siècle (ISECS), Section 7 / panel 4

    Au cours du XVIIIe siècle, l’étude de l’histoire naturelle connaît un essor considérable et devient une mode sociale et culturelle, dont la collection de spécimens des trois règnes se fait l’indispensable corollaire. Véritable dispositif de savoir, le cabinet se présente comme un espace de reproduction mimétique du monde naturel, dont il donne à voir et à lire, sur le mode de l’abrégé, la complexité de l’ordre naturel ainsi que ses beautés. Mais l’engouement concerne également des dispositifs de collection plus spécifiques, et de taille plus modeste comme, par exemple, l’herbier. Notre séance se propose de questionner les différentes formes de l’économie de la collection naturaliste au XVIIIe siècle. Il sera donc question d’interroger la circulation, l’échange et de la consommation d’objets d’histoire naturelle dans une perspective intellectuelle, sociale, monétaire et symbolique.

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  • Amsterdam

    Call for papers - History

    Mercantile Networks in the Asian Maritime World since 1750

    Conference hosted by the International Institute of Social History (IISH) and the Netherlands Economic Historical Archive (NEHA), Amsterdam, 6-8 September 2012.

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  • Utrecht

    Call for papers - History

    The Social History of Credit : From Micro-History to Global Perspective

    Appel à communications pour le Congrès mondial d'histoire économique, Utrecht, août 2009

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