Colleagues:
I should present a session proposal for the Thirteenth World Congress of
the International Economic History Association, Buenos Aires-2002, (Deadline 19 April 1999), entitled:
"The Initial major spread of motorised road transport in countries with
limited national automobile manufacturing prior to World War II."
Accordingly, this session endeavours to jointly undertake and encourage
future research, with special interest in analysis of comparative history,
recent studies on the characteristics, chronology, supply and demand
factors, national economic politics, socioeconomic consequences, and the
like, of the initial substantial spread of the automobile and motorised
road transport in countries with little or no presence of large motorised
automobile production plants. In order to avoid mixing distinct processes,
it is suggested that the Second World War is a limited time period which
is not entirely closed, and in particular those automobile-related
developments distinct from events in USA, Canada, Great Britain, France,
Germany and Italy.
In accordance with the initial instructions of the Executive Committee,
and even though in the event of approval there will be another Call for
Papers, I am asking colleagues who have worked on or are currently working
on these questions, or who are anticipating doing so, to send me an email
message indicating their initial interest and a possible title for their
paper.
If the session were to be approved and if there were sufficient response
to my request, I will endeavour to organise a preconference and find
institutional or company sponsorship in Vitoria, Spain in the summer or
autumn of 2001, and the consequent publication of the presented works.
Jose-Luis Hernandez-Marco
Dep. Historia e Instituciones Economicas
Universidad del Pais Vasco
Vitoria.- SPAIN
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