The Transfer of Ideas about Taxation since 1750

The Transfer of Ideas about Taxation since 1750

Veranstalter
Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities (CRASSH), Cambridge, UK
Veranstaltungsort
Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities (CRASSH), Cambridge, UK
Ort
Cambridge
Land
United Kingdom
Vom - Bis
16.09.2005 - 18.09.2005
Deadline
09.09.2005
Von
Florian Schui, Holger Nehring

This conference, funded by the Centre for History and Economic (Cambridge), the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities (CRASSH) and the Trevelyan Fund (Faculty of History, Cambridge), brings together historians, legal scholars and economists in order to explore the ways in which the transfer of ideas has shaped national tax regimes since the mid-eighteenth century. The conference focuses on the interaction between the transfer of ideas and the institutional, political, social, and economic environments which allowed ideas about taxation to cross borders. In particular, we seek to explore how transfers of ideas about taxation were framed by questions of political legitimacy and by socio-economic structures. We aim to explore exchanges amongst nations, within federal structures, and within empires. We thus hope to contribute to the discussions about international influences on nation-state building and the crucial role fiscal regimes played within these processes. Speakers include: Peter Becker, W. Elliott Brownlee and Martin Daunton.
More information (including a link to the registration form) is available at http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2004-5/taxconf.html

Programm

Provisional Programme

Friday 16 September

Welcome: Florian Schui (Cambridge)

Keynote Address and Discussion
(TBA)

Saturday 17 September

Session 1: The Transfer of Ideas about Taxation in the context of a Period of Wars and Revolutions

Commentator: Chris Clark (Cambridge)

France and Germany in the Eighteenth Century: The Case of the Régie
Florian Schui (Cambridge)

Exchanging Taxation Projects in Eighteenth-Century Europe: The case of Italian Cadasters
Christine Lebeau (Université Marc Bloch, Strasbourg, France)

Taxation in Napoleonic France and Italy
Alexander Grab (University of Maine, USA)

Session 2: Transfers of Ideas about Taxation within Empires

Commentator: TBA

Taxation in the French Colonial Empire under the Third Republic (1870-1914)
David Todd (Cambridge)

Tax Transfers: Ideas and Practices in the British Empire, c. 1850-1947
Martin Daunton (Cambridge)

Japan and the United States since World War Two
W. Elliott Brownlee (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)

Sunday 18 September

Session 3: Transfers of Ideas about Taxation in the Context of State Formations

Commentator: Peter Becker (European University Institute Florence, Italy)

The Transfer of Ideas about Taxation in the German Empire, 1880s-1914
Andreas Thier (University of Zurich, Switzerland)

Transfer of Ideas about Taxation between the USA and Germany, 1880-1920
Holger Nehring (University of Oxford)

Panel Discussion: Transfers of Ideas about Taxation, Economic and Financial Institutions and State-Building

W. Elliot Brownlee
Martin Daunton
Holger Nehring
Florian Schui

Kontakt

Dr Florian Schui
St. Edmund Hall
Cambridge
fhws2@cam.ac.uk

http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2004-5/taxconf.html