FRESH meetings are aimed at researchers in any field of economic and social history. The meetings build on the concept that scholars present their ongoing research at an early stage, i.e. normally before it becomes published as a working paper or the like, and certainly before it is published in...

The study of the relations between the economy and the institutions has been gaining relevance in the social sciences. Adopting a perspective of the institutions which is not confined to the restricted field of economic organizations, but it includes a whole set of rules, beliefs and norms that...

The Congress theme will be "Stability, Instability and Progress in the Caribbean" (16th-20th centuries)

Borderlands assumed a particular significance in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Industrialization, the development of the modern city, faster means of communication, the further spread of imperialism and the rise of the modern nation-state meant that borderlands came to encompass and...

Die Nutzerkonferenz zu den amtlichen Haushaltsstatistiken Einkommens- und Verbrauchsstichprobe und Mikrozensus widmet sich der Analyse der Sozialstruktur sowie des Einkommens und Verbrauchs in Deutschland. Forschungsergebnisse, die auf Basis der Einkommens- und Verbrauchsstichprobe und des...

If the global economic and financial crisis has a silver lining, it is that recent events have heightened awareness among policy makers and the general public of the importance of economic history. Crises – economic, financial, social, demographic, environmental, and political, to name only a...

The event will bring together academics and practitioners working in all areas of European Studies including law, economics, geography, history, sociology, public policy and politics.

The EHES welcomes conference paper submissions in all areas of economic history.

The 3rd Semantic Technology and Knowledge Engineering Conference (STAKE 2011) is the latest in a series of annual conferences that have been held in Malaysia since 2009. This conference focuses on the following areas: - Applied Semantic Technology - Knowledge Engineering - Semantic based...