North-Eastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Call for papers, NEASECS conference, University of New Hampshire, Durham,
New Hampshire, December 9-12, 1999.
<bold><bigger>The Development of Financial Services in the Eighteenth
Century
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The long 18th century saw a number of developments bringing various areas
of finance to their modern shape -
- the growth of modern deposit banking (Sir Robert Clayton and others)
- the financial speculations and crashes of the various bubbles in
Holland, France and England (including the various Dutch bubbles and
crashes, the Mississippi System and the South Sea Bubble)
- the growth of multinational trading organisations (some with origins
stretching back to the sixteenth century), (South Sea Company, East India
Company, Royal Africa Company, and continental-based schemes such as the
French Mississippi venture)
- the development of national bank systems (the establishment of the Bank
of England)
- economic theory (John Law, Richard Cantillon, Adam Smith)
- the transformation of the goldsmiths into bankers
- the transition from cash to cashless payment (the risks of sending cash
by carrier, the development of bills of exchange, the development of
foreign exchange transactions)
- a growth in private and public investment (mortgages, government
securities, financing of trade and business)
- the development of the modern mortgage market
- controversial taxation measures.
I welcome proposals for papers. The deadline for submission of proposals
is April 5.
Richard G. Williams
Librarian, Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University
154 Main Street, Farmington CT 06032
Tel.: (860) 677 2140
Fax: (860) 677 6369
e-mail: richard.g.williams@yale.edu, web-site:
<<http://www.library.yale.edu./Walpole/>
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