HIST 682B History of Capitalism in Europe and US
This course provides an introduction for graduate students to the ways in which historians have approached the history of capitalism. Its focus is on Europe and North America from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries. Topics include the rise of the fiscal state; the consumer revolution of the eighteenth century; the origins and nature of the industrial revolution; the relationship of New World slavery to the international capitalist economy; and changing structures of enterprise, labor, distribution and consumption. Readings are drawn from a variety of historiographies: economic history, political history, business history, labor history, environmental history, social and cultural history, and intellectual history.