Forum Leader:
Jacob Soll, University of Southern California
The Foreign Wealth of Nations
Co-Organizers
Jessica Hanser, University of Copenhagen
Ellen Nye, Purdue University
Jacob Soll, University of Southern California
Pernill Røge, University of Pittsburgh
Saturday, February 28, 2024
Huntington Library
1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA
Stewart R. Smith Board Room
This conference will examine the intersection of the rise of modern European capitalism with non-European actors and institutions. The goal is to understand not only the deep interrelatedness of international trade. Rather than looking at the rise of European empire and wealth as a great divergence, we are looking to understand the odd convergences which led to the period of European economic domination and how it grew from competition and plunder, as well as from emulation and cooperation with foreign empires, in particular in China, India, and the Middle East.
Participants
Photos from the Martens Economic History Forum, 2023 & 2024
Image: James Gillray, Political Ravishment; or The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street in danger!, c. 1797.
