A team of Professors from four partner Institutions (LSE, Irvine, Leiden and Osaka) formulated a three-year programme of academic interchange based on five themes:
- State Formation and Markets
- Imperialism and Colonialism
- Economic Cultures
- Science, Technology and Useful Knowledge
- Cotton Textiles as a Global Industry
These five themes are investigated through a series of activities based on:
- Ten inter-related conferences that will address five meta themes currently under debate in global economic history;
- A project for collaborative research on comparative advantages and labour productivities in the manufacture and export of cotton textiles in Europe, India, China and Japan;
- Short term (one month) Visiting Teaching Fellowships.