Sunday, January 5, 11:00–1:00 p.m.

American Historical Association Annual Meeting Sessions

153. The Political Culture of Speculation: Stock Markets and Gambling Casinos in Nineteenth-Century Europe

Palmer House, Parlor B

Chair: Andrew Evans, State University of New York at New Paltz

Papers: Sensationalizing Speculation: Monte Carlo and the London Stock Exchange in the Late Nineteenth Century
Maura O'Connor, University of Cincinnati

Between Spiel and Wette: Speculation, Morality, and German Unification
E. J. Carter, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign

Vienna's Stock Exchange and the Economic Dimension of Cultural Modernism
Brent Maner, Kansas State University

Comment: John P. McKay, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

   

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