Revisiting the Transportation Revolution
Annual Meeting of the Economic History Association
Vancouver, British Columbia
21-23 September, 2012
Generations of economic historians have written extensively about the economic impact of the transportation improvements. Nevertheless, new tools, new data, and new techniques derived from geographic information systems, economic geography, and the like continue to offer better measures of the impact of the improvements in roads, ships, railroads, and planes (and the infrastructure which support them). They also provide new insights into the short and long term effects of these changes and how they have shaped our world by diminishing the importance of space and place. Once upon a time, distance in the form of time and money protected producers and isolated communities and cultures. Improved communications and transportation have eroded these—a process which continues to this day as these technologies evolve.
Deadline for papers and session proposals: Friday, 27 January, 2012 to ensure consideration.
Deadline for application for poster session: Friday, 18 May, 2012
For more information: http://eh.net/eha/meetings/2012-meeting
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