The Joint Centre for History and Economics is based at Magdalene College and King's College, University of Cambridge, and at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University. It was established in 1991 to promote research and education in fields of importance for historians and economists. Its aim is to provide a forum in which scholars can address some of their common concerns, whether through the application of economic concepts to historical problems, through the history of economic and social thought, or through economic history.
The objective of the Centre is to encourage fundamental research in each of the two disciplines. It also encourages the participation of historians and economists in addressing issues of public importance. These include economic security, globalization in historical perspective, poverty and inequality, and the relationship between politics and religion. In cooperation with its counterpart Centre at Harvard, the Cambridge Centre undertakes research projects and organizes workshops, seminars and exchanges of faculty and graduate students. It provides the base for the History Project, and for current research projects on Exchanges of Economic, Legal and Political Ideas; Sites of Asian Interaction: Networks, Ideas, Archives; The Interaction between Political, Economic and Religious Ideas; and India in the Global World.
Coin of the Month - February
Marengo and gold coinage in Continental Europe
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Recent Centre Books
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Connections after Colonialism: Europe and Latin America in the 1820s |
The Inner Life of Empires:
An Eighteenth Century History Emma Rothschild |
Migration and Diaspora in Modern Asia Sunil Amrith |
The Cambridge History of Nineteenth-Century Political Thought, Volume 1 Gareth Stedman Jones and Gregory Claeys (eds.) |