(Vorkonferenz Frankfurt/Oder 29.3.-1.4.2001 Sektion auf Economic History Association Bueonos Aires in July/August 2002)
National borders and Disintegration of market areas in East Central Europe in the 19th and the 20th century
The Chair for Economic and Social History at the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) (Prof. Helga Schultz and Dr. Uwe Müller) and the Chair for Economic and Social History at the Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan (Prof. Stefan Kowal) are the organizer of a session at the next World Congress of the International Economic History Association, which will be held at Buenos Aires in 2002. A Pre-Conference in Frankfurt (Oder) from 29th March to 1st April 2001 with about 15 papers will prepare the Session in Argentine. The papers of the Pre-Conference will be published in our series.
The main topic is the influence of borders, esp. of the change of borders, on the economic development in East Central Europe. The perspective should not only look to the foreign trade, but to the destruction and formation of market areas by the founding of new national states after the decay of the multiethnic empires. The analysis of the immediate border regions (permanent, new and former) should show the problems in plain terms.
The following problems are the time focal points:
- the role of traditional cross-border market areas, like the Silesian-Bohemian-Saxonian textile region, for the industrialisation process,
- the significance of the industrialisation for the development of border regions (esp. on the borders of Prussia, Russia and the Habsburg monarchy),
- the rise of economic nationalism and its importance for the border regions in the late 19th and at the beginning of the 20th century,
- the effects of the border shifts after Versailles, Saint-Germain and Trianon,
- the reorganisation of the borders in the Nazi-"Großraumwirtschaft",
- the effects of the border shifts after World War II,
- the fall of the Iron Curtain and the change of peripherian regions to centres of transformation.
The factual emphasis are:
- the development of integration processes in the true sense of the word: the division of labour,
- economic and political nationalism, population "transfer" and the influence on the quality of human capital in border regions,
- the strategy of divided enterprises in border regions,
- border-crossing labour and capital markets,
- the development of the infrastructure,
- the role of regional structure policy and communities of interest.
We call for proposals of papers in the form of abstracts not exceeding one page in English by March 31, 2000, at the latest.
Abstract submission is possible
via e-mail to:
umueller@euv-frankfurt-o.de
via fax to: 0049-335-5534-613
or by mail to: Dr. Uwe Müller
Europa-Universitaet Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)
Lehrstuhl für Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte der Neuzeit
PF 1786
D-15207 Frankfurt (Oder)
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