Abstracts of Papers Presented at the Annual Meeting.

Abstracts are presented for featured papers given at the 2012 annual meeting of the Economic History Association, including "The Collapse of the Continental Dollar: The Turning Point and Its Causes, An Alternative History of Financing the American Revolution, 1775-1781," by Farley Grubb, "Risk, Agricultural Technology, and Contractual Choice: Evidence from Confucius’s Lineage in Late Qing China (1759-1901)," by Helen Yang, and "The Belle Epoque of International Finance: The French Portfolio, 1880-1913," by Rui Esteves.