Revisiting the Gilded Age: Business and politics in late nineteenth-century United States

Journée d'études
co-organisée par Nicolas Barreyre, Évelyne Payen-Variéras et Naomi Wulf
CREW-OPA (Paris 3) et CENA

April 29, 2011
Maison de la recherche Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris3
4 rue des Irlandais, 75005 Paris

contact: cfp.gilded.agegmail.

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program

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9h-9h30: Welcome and introduction (Nicolas Barreyre, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre)

9h30-11h: Session 1: Collusion Between Business and Politics: Representations and Reactions

• Erhan Simsek (Universität Heidelberg): Surviving in the Worlds of Business and Politics: Theodore Dreiser’s The Financier.
• Nicolas Bourguinat (Université de Strasbourg): Big Business and Politics in the New World: The View of Old-World Socialists.

11h30-13h: Session 2: Beyond Lobbying: Information, Culture and Politics

• Dominique Pinsolle (Université Bordeaux 3): A French Daily Backed by American Interests: Le Matin, 1884-1890.
• Michaël Vottero (Institut National du Patrimoine): To Collect and Conquer: American Collections in the Gilded Age.

13h-14h30: Lunch

14h30-16h: Session 3: Business and the Creation of Modern Liberalism

• Paul Kens (Texas State University-San Marcos): The United States Supreme Court and Business Elites: Gilded Age Origins of Modern American Liberalism.
• Scott R. Nelson (College of William & Mary): Liberal Apocalypse: The Panic of 1873 and its Four Horsemen.

16h-16h30: Break

16h30-18h: Session 4: Business in Local Political Networks

• Yves Figueiredo (Université Paris IV Sorbonne): Golden State and Gilded Age. Californian Capitalism in the Sierra Nevada.
• Évelyne Payen-Variéras (Université Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle): Localism and the Strategies of Gilded-Age Entrepreneurs.

18h-18h30: Conclusion