Abstracts of Annual Meeting Papers

Annual Meeting Presenter(s) Title
2024 BHC Meeting Marina Moskowitz, University of Wisconsin, Madison "Disseminating Design, Controlling Craftsmanship: The Enterprise of the Folly Cove Designers"
2024 BHC Meeting Amanda R. Mushal, The Citadel "“Clarke has obtained Reports”: Early Credit Rating Counterintelligence in the Ledgers of R.G. Dun & Company"
2024 BHC Meeting Jamieson Gordon Myles, University of Oxford "Elastic Infrastructure: Payments and Credit in Twentieth Century Global Correspondent Banking"
2024 BHC Meeting James Nealy, Harvard University "“The Shchekino Method: Flexible Production with Socialist Characteristics”"
2024 BHC Meeting Andrew Nelson, University of Oregon ""Don't Stop Believin'": Sustaining Attention for Slow-to-Emerge Technological Practices"
2024 BHC Meeting Victoria Barnes, School of Law, Queen’s University Belfast, Lucy Newton, Henley Business School "Piggy banks, money boxes and saving stamps: how British retail banks used artefacts to encourage children’s savings habits"
2024 BHC Meeting Kondwani Happy Ngoma, University of Gothenburg "Black Power and White Capital: The Price of Symbolic Compliance and the Crisis of Legitimacy During Decolonisation in Northern Rhodesia, 1961-1964"
2024 BHC Meeting Shigehiro Nishimura, Kansai University "Foreign Direct Investment and Longevity of Patent Rights in Japan: How has Foreign Technology affected Industrialization?"
2024 BHC Meeting Dael Norwood, University of Delaware "“Making George Washington a Businessman: Origins, Context, and Consequences”"
2024 BHC Meeting Ellen Nye, Harvard University "Empires of Obligation: Law, Money, and Debt between England and the Ottoman Empire, 1670-1720"
2024 BHC Meeting Ellen Nye, Harvard University "Merchants and Financial Revolution: Interstate Trade, the Great Recoinage, and Shifting Scales of Money"
2024 BHC Meeting Mary O'Sullivan, University of Geneva "The Political Economy of Colonial Capitalism: Ireland as Colony or Kingdom in a Shattered British Empire, 1774-1785?"
2024 BHC Meeting Maria Padovan, University of Rome Tor Vergata and University Paris City "How (Not) to Build a Fast Breeder Reactor within Euratom: A French-Italian Perspective (1957-1969)"
2024 BHC Meeting Susie Pak, St. John's University Roundtable presentation
2024 BHC Meeting Olivia Paschal, University of Virginia "Why Did the Chicken Waste Cross the Highway?: The Arkansas Chicken Industry and the Fight over Groundwater Pollution in the 1980s and 1990s "
2024 BHC Meeting Robin Pearson, University of Hull "The Marketing of Life Insurance in Turkey and China during the late 19th and early 20th Centuries "
2024 BHC Meeting Chad Pearson, University of North Texas "Why we must call the Second Ku Klux Klan an Employers’ Association "
2024 BHC Meeting Linda Perriton, University of Stirling "Legal change and financial efficacy: The impact of the 1844 Savings Bank Act on trust accounts and trusteeship"
2024 BHC Meeting Linda Perriton, University of Stirling, Graeme Acheson, University of Strathclyde "The consuming city: women and their businesses in late Victorian Glasgow"
2024 BHC Meeting Atiba Pertilla, German Historical Institute "Paper 1"
2024 BHC Meeting Peter Kovacs, University of California, San Francisco "Philip Morris, Alpine, and DDB: The Advent of the “Creative Revolution” in Cigarette Advertising"
2024 BHC Meeting Jason Petrulis, The Education University of Hong Kong "“Making a Global Beauty Business: The Rise and Fall of Hong Kong Wigs in the 1960s”"
2024 BHC Meeting Laura Phillips-Sawyer, University of Georgia "Antitrust Law and Democratic Capitalism: What the Historical Meanings of Market Power Reveal about the Antitrust - Democracy Nexus"
2024 BHC Meeting Sandeep Pillai, Bocconi University "Scaling Production: A Re-Examination of Detroit’s Emergence as the Hub of the American Automobile Industry"
2024 BHC Meeting Pamela Popielarz, University of Illinois, Chicago "Racialized and Gendered Business Practices: Comparing the Building Efforts of Clubs and Fraternal Orders at the Turn of the Twentieth Century"