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Seminar
WiSe 19/20: Capitalism in Global History
Sebastian Conrad Alexander Nützenadel
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Please note: This course is heavily oversubscribed and is therefore open to MA Global History students only. Unfortunately, we can guarantee participation only to students who are registered for the course on Campus Management. close
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While capitalism is undoubtedly a global phenomenon, for the longest time its history has been written in national segments: American, British, Japanese capitalism. In this seminar, we seek to explore the global turn in the recent literature on the history of capitalism. The aim is less to arrive at a comprehensive narrative, but rather to assess different ways of situating, and explaining, capitalism in a global context. Themes will include: capitalism as a concept, varieties of capitalism, the global history of commodities, capitalism and empire, capitalism and nature, the recent debate on inequality, and others.
Recommended reading: Tirthankar Roy & Giorgio Riello (eds.), Global Economic History, London (Bloomsbury) 2019; Larry Neal et al., eds, The Cambridge History of Capitalism, 2 volumes, Cambridge (Cambridge University Press) 2014; Sven Beckert, Empire of Cotton: A Global History, New York (Knopf) 2014.
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15 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Thu, 2019-10-24 12:00 - 14:00
Thu, 2019-10-31 12:00 - 14:00
Thu, 2019-11-07 12:00 - 14:00
Thu, 2019-11-14 12:00 - 14:00
Thu, 2019-11-21 12:00 - 14:00
Thu, 2019-11-28 12:00 - 14:00
Thu, 2019-12-05 12:00 - 14:00
Thu, 2019-12-12 12:00 - 14:00
Thu, 2019-12-19 12:00 - 14:00
Thu, 2020-01-09 12:00 - 14:00
Thu, 2020-01-16 12:00 - 14:00
Thu, 2020-01-23 12:00 - 14:00
Thu, 2020-01-30 12:00 - 14:00
Thu, 2020-02-06 12:00 - 14:00
Thu, 2020-02-13 12:00 - 14:00