===================== HES POSTING ==================== Fifty-Seventh Annual E.H.A. Meeting The 1998 Annual Meeting of the Economic History Association will be held at the Washington Duke Inn and Golf Club, Durham, North Carolina, September 25-27, 1998. The theme of the program is "Revolutions in Economic History." The theme refers to historical cases in which economic structures of long standing and apparent stability either disintegrate or are overturned by something new. "Revolutions" may include the famous upheavals of political and economic history (e.g., French, Russian, Industrial), but also sociopolitical transformations such as the Civil Rights Revolution in the United States, discontinuous changes in the norms of labor relations or family life, etc. Conventional economics has little to say about these phenomena, but history should have plenty to say. Members of the program committee are: John Brown (Chair), David Carlton, Jane Humphries, and Warren Whatley. The committee especially encourages proposals for papers and sessions that help promote intellectual conversations among scholars who may assess revolutions in economic history from differing analytical or disciplinary perspectives. To submit a proposal for a paper, send a short abstract (150 words) and a longer 3-5 page abstract to John Brown postmarked by January 30, 1998. Proposals may also be submitted by using the form available from the E.H.A. Web Site at http://www.eh.net/EHA/Announcements/EHA_sub_prop_98.html. If a draft of the paper is available, please send it in addition to the abstracts. The committee welcomes proposals for entire sessions as well as for individual papers. Proposals for sessions should include abstracts for each paper in the session. The committee does reserve the right to assign papers to sessions and to accept some papers from a proposed session if the entire session is not accepted. For full consideration, proposals must be received by January 30, 1998. Submissions must include the full name, mailing address, telephone number(s), fax number, and E-mail address of all authors. Notices of acceptance will be sent to the individual paper givers by March 30, 1998. Those interested in being considered for the 1998 E.H.A. program are welcome to enter into conversations (E-mail encouraged) with any of the members of the Program Committee: John Brown (Chair) Department of Economics Clark University Worcester, MA 01610-1477 (508)793-7390 Fax: (508)855-3736 [log in to unmask] David L. Carlton Department of History Vanderbilt University P.O. Box 1523, Station B Nashville, TN 37235 (615)332-3326 Fax: (615)343-6002 [log in to unmask] Jane Humphries Cambridge University Department of Economics Cambridge, England CB3 9DD (01223)335222 Fax: 01223-335475 [log in to unmask] Warren C. Whatley Department of Economics The University of Michigan 215 Lorch Hall Ann Arbor, MI 48109 (313) 764-5256 Fax: (313) 764-2769 [log in to unmask] Those expecting to receive their Ph.D. during the academic year 1997/98 are invited to apply for inclusion in the dissertation session at the 1998 E.H.A meetings. Dissertations on U.S. or Canadian history chosen for presentation at the meetings will be finalists for the Allan Nevins Prize. Such dissertations should be sent to: Leonard Carlson Emory University Department of Economics Atlanta, GA 30322 e-mail: [log in to unmask] Dissertations on areas of the world other than the U.S. or Canada will be finalists for the Alexander Gerschenkron Prize. Such dissertations should be sent to: Lynn Hollen Lees University of Pennsylvania Department of History College Hall Philadelphia, PA 19104 e-mail: [log in to unmask] Applicants must send a copy of their dissertation to the appropriate convener so that it reaches him or her by Friday, May 29. 1998. ============ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ============ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]