Sixteenth Annual Conference of the Program in Early American Economy and Society (PEAES)
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“A Re-Union of Interests,” commemorates the publication of Cathy Matson and Peter Onuf’s important 1990 work, A Union of Interests: Political and Economic Thought in Revolutionary America. In a well-deserved nod to these two scholars’ prodigious contributions and their legacy of mentorship of others, the conference draws together some of the finest scholars working in the field of late eighteenth and early nineteenth century political economy. By breaking free from historiographical dichotomies between what is political and what is economic, and by appreciating broadly-defined economic interests and ideology in the generation after the Revolution, A Union of Interests continues to pave the way for fresh studies of early republican political economy, state-building, economic development, and the practice of early federalism. Taking Matson and Onuf’s book as our point of departure, this conference will analyze and evaluate the field of political economy a quarter century later and showcase exciting new directions in the study of early North American political economy.
We at PEAES wish to thank the History Department and School of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers University-Camden for their support for this conference.