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Convergence/Divergence: New Approaches to the Global History of Capitalism Conference The Global History of Capitalism project, housed within the Oxford Centre for Global History, is a focal point for ongoing scholarship on the history of capitalism. The

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    • Sep 29, 2019 LATEST EPISODE
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    • 17 EPISODES


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    Wrap up and reflection part 2

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 29, 2019 10:46


    Patricia Clavin (Professor of International History, Oxford) gives a lecture on history and public policy. Part of Panel 6 (wrap up reflection): History and Public Policy Chair: Andrew Thompson (Oxford)

    Wrap up reflection part 1

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 29, 2019 20:01


    Jeremy Adelman (Henry Charles Lea Professor of History, Princeton) gives a lecture on history and public policy. Part of Panel 6 (wrap up reflection): History and Public Policy Chair: Andrew Thompson (Oxford)

    Strange Legacies of Divergence:  The Chinese Gold Mining Diaspora 1850-1910

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 29, 2019 23:23


    Mae Ngai (Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies and Professor of History, Columbia) gives a lecture on ‘Strange Legacies of Divergence:  The Chinese Gold Mining Diaspora 1850-1910'. Part of Panel 5: Labour and the Household, a Global History Chair: Rowena Olegario (Oxford)

    Divisions of Labour: the Household and the Economy

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 29, 2019 20:59


    Peter Hill (Northumbria) gives a lecture on ‘Divisions of Labour: the Household and the Economy'.

    Household, Wage Labour and Capitalist Transformations in 20th Century Africa

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 29, 2019 20:58


    Andreas Eckert (Professor of African History, Humboldt-University Berlin) gives a lecture on ‘Household, Wage Labour and Capitalist Transformations in 20th Century Africa'. Part of Panel 5: Labour and the Household, a Global History Chair: Rowena Olegario (Oxford)

    China and the West: Many Great Divergences

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 29, 2019 25:11


    Joel Mokyr (Robert H. Strotz Professor of Arts and Sciences, Northwestern) gives a lecture on ‘China and the West: Many Great Divergences'. Part of Panel 4: Technology, Institutions and Divergence: Arguments and Counterarguments About Rise and Fall, Success and Failure Chair: Christopher McKenna (Oxford)

    Silk and Innovation in Pre-modern China and Europe

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 29, 2019 23:26


    Dagmar Schafer (Director, Max Planck Institute) and Giorgio Riello (Professor of Early Modern Global History, EUI) give a lecture on ‘Silk and Innovation in Pre-modern China and Europe'. Part of Panel 4: Technology, Institutions and Divergence: Arguments and Counterarguments About Rise and Fall, Success and Failure Chair: Christopher McKenna (Oxford)

    Cosmographical Foundations for the Promotion of Embryo Sciences and Proto- technologies in Pre-industrial Europe and Late Imperial China

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 29, 2019 17:12


    Patrick O'Brien (Professor of Economic History in the Department of Economic History, LSE) gives a lecture on ‘Cosmographical Foundations for the Promotion of Embryo Sciences and Proto- technologies in Pre-industrial Europe and Late Imperial China'. Part of Panel 4: Technology, Institutions and Divergence: Arguments and Counterarguments About Rise and Fall, Success and Failure Chair: Christopher McKenna (Oxford)

    The Great Intellectual Divergence: Alexander Hamilton and the Global Origins of Environmental Investmentality

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 28, 2019 18:45


    Eli Cook (Assistant Professor of American History, Haifa) gives a lecture on ‘The Great Intellectual Divergence: Alexander Hamilton and the Global Origins of Environmental Investmentality'. Part of Panel 3: Catastrophe or Liberation? Capitalism or Environment? Anthropocene, Energy, and Global Capitalism Chair: Gareth Austin (Cambridge)

    The Great Acceleration in Asia: Beyond 'Coal and North America'

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 28, 2019 21:22


    Kaoru Sugihara (Specially Appointed Professor at the Research Institute for Humanities and Nature, Kyoto) gives a lecture on ‘The Great Acceleration in Asia: Beyond 'Coal and North America''. Part of Panel 2: The Great Divergence: Timing and Causality 20 years later Chair: Sebastian Conrad (Free University, Berlin)

    Asia and the Great Divergence

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 28, 2019 18:03


    Bishnu Gupta (Professor of Economics, Warwick) gives a lecture on ‘Asia and the Great Divergence'. Part of Panel 2: The Great Divergence: Timing and Causality 20 years later Chair: Sebastian Conrad (Free University, Berlin)

    Water and the Economic History of India

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 28, 2019 20:21


    Tirthankar Roy (Professor in Economic History, Department of Economic History, LSE) gives a lecture on ‘Water and the Economic History of India'. Part of Panel 3: Catastrophe or Liberation? Capitalism or Environment? Anthropocene, Energy, and Global Capitalism Chair: Gareth Austin (Cambridge)

    Industry in the Global South, 1840s-1940s: Unfinished Business

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 28, 2019 18:42


    William Clarence-Smith (Emeritus Professor of History, SOAS) gives a lecture on ‘Industry in the Global South, 1840s-1940s: Unfinished Business'. Part of Panel 3: Catastrophe or Liberation? Capitalism or Environment? Anthropocene, Energy, and Global Capitalism Chair: Gareth Austin (Cambridge)

    The Limits of Reciprocal Comparisons: Money and Trade Finance in the Early Modern Period

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 28, 2019 23:38


    Alejandra Irigoin (Associate Professor in the Department of Economic History, LSE) gives a lecture on ‘The Limits of Reciprocal Comparisons: Money and The Early Modern Period'. Part of Panel 1: The European Miracle or Pre-Orient? Early Modern Convergence Tales as Rival Narratives Chair: James Belich (Oxford)

    Did the Little Divergence within Europe and America contribute to the Great Divergence?

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 28, 2019 19:00


    Leandro Prados de la Escosura (Professor of Economic History, Carlos III University, Madrid) gives a lecture on ‘Did the Little Divergence within Europe and America contribute to the Great Divergence?' Part of panel 2: The Great Divergence: Timing and Causality 20 years later Chair: Sebastian Conrad (Free University, Berlin)

    The World Historical in China's Twentieth Century: Perspectives on Modernity, Globalization and Globality

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 28, 2019 21:34


    Rebecca Karl (Professor of History, NYU) gives a lecture on ‘The World Historical in China's Twentieth Century: Perspectives on Modernity, Globalization and Globality'. Part of Panel 1: The European Miracle or Pre-Orient? Early Modern Convergence Tales as Rival Narratives Chair: James Belich (Oxford)

    The Spaces In Between: What is Global about the History of Capitalism?

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 28, 2019 20:31


    Andrew Edwards (Career Development Fellow for the Global History of Capitalism project, Oxford) gives a lecture on ‘The Spaces in Between: What is Global about the History of Capitalism?' Part of Panel 1: The European Miracle or Pre-Orient? Early Modern Convergence Tales as Rival Narratives Chair: James Belich (Oxford)

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