Cultural Anxieties of Financial Revolution: Calico Act and South Sea Bubble

We are glad to announce the fourth event of the Webinar Series in 18th-Century History of Political Economy.

Professor Abigail Swingen will talk about the connection between the Calico Act and the South Sea Bubble by discussing how both crises intersected ideologically with the popular anxieties about a foreign invasion, Jacobitism, gender, and social order in the wake of Britain's Financial Revolution.

The Webinar is open to everyone interested in the topic.
You can join the webinar through the YSI platform or please fill this form that we will send you the zoom link 30 minutes before the webinar.

We will circulate Prof. Swingen working paper "The Calico Act, the South Sea Bubble, and the Cultural Anxieties of the Financial Revolution" among those interested before the webinar, so please confirm attendance through the YSI platform or the form to receive it.

Dr. Abigail Swingen is an associate professor of the Department of History at the Texas Tech University and the author of the book Competing Visions of Empire: Labor, Slavery, and the Origins of the British Atlantic Empire. Her research interests include the origins and consequences of England's Financial Revolution, the development of the British transatlantic empire, ideas of political economy, labor and slavery in the early modern world, and the development of early modern political culture.