Economies of Print and Communication

Joseph M. Adelman, Framingham State University
“Reading and Writing: Turning the Interdisciplinary Page in Early America” (Click Here for PDF)

Caitlin Rosenthal, University of California-Berkeley (Click Here for PDF)
“Counting and Accounting: Numerical Information and Communication in Early America”

Capitalism and Class

Seth Rockman, Brown University (Click Here for PDF)
“From Social History to Political Economy: The Changing Registers of Class and Capitalism in American History: Part I”

Stephen Mihm, University of Georgia
“From Social History to Political Economy: The Changing Registers of Class and Capitalism in American History: Part II”

Atlantic and Global Contexts

Michelle Craig McDonald, Stockton College (Click Here for PDF)
“Sea Change: Nautical Networks of the Early Atlantic World”

Edward Pompeian, College of William and Mary (Click Here for PDF)
“The New World’s Atlantic: Recent Orientations from the Americas”

Gendered Economies

Ellen Hartigan-O’Connor, University of California at Davis (Click Here for PDF)
“Bids: The Gendered Work of Value in Early American Markets”

Brian Luskey, West Virginia University and NEH Post-Doctoral Fellow, LCP and PEAES (Click Here for PDF)
“Bonds: Gender and the Cultural Economy of Early America”

Linzy Brekke-Aloise, Stonehill College (Click Here for PDF)
“Bodies: Fashioning Gender in the Early American Marketplace”

Saturday, October 25

Material Economies and Consumers

Jane Merritt, Old Dominion University (Click Here for PDF)
“Consumer Revolutions and the Politics of Tea”

Danielle Skeehan, Oberlin College (Click Here for PDF)
“Texts and Textiles in the Early Atlantic”

Institutions and Political Economy

Dael Norwood, Yale University (Click Here for PDF)
“What Counts? Political Economy, or, Ways to Make Early America Add Up”

Hannah Farber, University of California-Berkeley (Click Here for PDF)
“Who Acts? Government, Society, and the Elusive American Institution”