C E R V E
UNIVERSIT C9 PAUL-VAL C9RY
PLACE DE LA VOIE DOMITIENNE
34032 MONTPELLIER C C9DEX 1
FAX (+33) 67.14.24.12
cordially invites you to a Special Conference on
ROOTS OF THE BRITISH 'DECLINE' IN THE LATE-VICTORIAN AND EDWARDIAN
PERIOD
to be held at
the BRED, Salle Pierre Jourda
Universit E9 Paul-Val E9ry in Montpellier (France)
Friday & Saturday 22 and 23 September, 1995
Contributions by leading British and American Scholars
(Sessions to be held in English)
If interested to attend please contact Jean-Pierre DORMOIS TEL. (+33)
67.14.24.50 or 67.02.07.05 Fax (+33) 67.14.24.12 e-mail:
dormois@bred.univ-montp3.fr
ROOTS OF THE BRITISH 'DECLINE' IN THE LATE-VICTORIAN AND EDWARDIAN
PERIOD
PROGRAMME
Friday, 22 September 1995 9am to 1pm 1st session: Industrial Retardation?
Moderator: Donald McCloskey (Iowa)
Donald McCloskey (Iowa), Bourgeois Virtue and the Rhetoric of Decline
David Greasley (Edinburgh), Competitiveness and growth: the British
Economy
1856-1938
Robert Millward (Manchester), Industrial performance and government
policy
W.R. Garside (Birmingham), Regional vs. National Perspectives on
Economic
decline.
L U N C H
Friday, 22 September 2.30 to 6.30pm 2nd session: Technology and
Industry
Moderator: David Landes (Harvard)
Edward Lorenz (Notre Dame), Organisational inertia and competitive
decline
William Kennedy (LSE), The financing of innovation
David Edgerton (Imperial College London), title to be announced
Correlli Barnett (Cambridge), The Audit of the Great War on British
technology
James Foreman-Peck (Oxford), The balance of Technological Transfers
APERITIF AND DINNER
Saturday, 23 September 9am to 1pm 3rd session: Cultural and institutional
sclerosis
Moderator: Fran E7ois Crouzet (Sorbonne)
William Rubinstein (Wales, Aberystwyth), The Rise and Fall of Provincial
Elites
Michael Sanderson (East-Anglia), Education and training as an element
in
'decline'
Michael Dintenfass (Wisconsin), The voice of industry and the ethos
of decline
Peter Cain (Birmingham), Tradition and Innovation: the City of London
1880-1914. 20
L U N C H
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* Jean-Pierre DORMOIS *
* jpdormoy@bred.univ-montp3.fr *
* Universite Paul Valery *
* UFR II - Anglais *
* Route de Mende *
* BP 5043 34032 MONTPELLIER Cedex * 20
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