CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT

The editors of Itinerario. The European Journal of Overseas History, and the Institute for the History of European Expansion (IGEER) of Leiden University and pleased to announce a conference on

The Nature of Atlantic History

which will be held on Friday 14 & Saturday 15 May 1999

at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS), Meijboomlaan 1, 2242 PR Wassenaar, The Netherlands

Programme:

Friday Session:

9.30 a.m.
Pieter Emmer (Leiden University): "Introduction"

9.45 a.m.
David Hancock (University of Michigan at Ann Arbor): "Self-Organization, Conversation and the Emergence of an Atlantic Market Economy, 1663-1807"

11.10 a.m.
David Eltis (Queen's University, Canada): "Pre-Nineteenth Century Atlantic History: An African Perspective"

12.05 a.m.
Deborah White (Rutgers University): "Considerations on the Black Atlantic"

2.15 p.m.
Carla Rahn Phillips (University of Minnesota at Twin Cities): "The Iberian Atlantic"

4.00 p.m.
Wim Klooster (University of Southern Maine) & Pieter Emmer (Leiden University): "The Dutch Atlantic, 1600-1800. Expansion without Empire"

Saturday Session

9.30 a.m.:
Silvia Marzagalli (Universite Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux III): "The French Atlantic"

10.30 a.m.:
Alison F. Games (Georgetown University): "Teaching Atlantic History"

12.00 a.m.:
Philip D. Morgan (William and Mary Quarterly): "Afterthoughts & Discussion"

For more information, please contact:

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From: H-Net Announcements Editor <announce@h-net.msu.edu>
Subject: CONF: Nature of Atlantic History
Date: 19.2.1999

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