Hafta 1
[Introduction to the Course] Jason W. Moore and Raj Patel, A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature and the Future of the Planet (UC Press, 2017), Introduction; Sidney Mintz, Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History (Penguin Books), Introduction, Chapter Two ("Production")
Hafta 2
[Slavery and Capitalism in the Caribbean]. Richard Drayton, “The Collaboration of Labour: Slaves, Empires and Globalizations in the Atlantic World, c. 1600-1850,” in Globalization in World History, ed. A.G. Hopkins (W.W. Norton & Company, 2002), 98-114; Sidney Mintz, Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History (Penguin Books), Chapter Three (“Consumption”)
Hafta 3
[Slavery and Capitalism in the U.S. South] Sven Beckert, Empire of Cotton: A Global History (Vintage, 2015), Chapters Two – Four; Edward E. Baptist, The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism (Basic Books, 2016), sections.
Hafta 4
[The Great Divergence and the Corporation] Kenneth Pomeranz, The Great Divergence: China, Europe and the Making of the Modern World (Princeton, 2011), sections; Nick Robbins, The Corporation that Changed the World: How the East India Company Shaped the Modern Multinational (Pluto Press, 2006), Chapters One and Four; William Dalrymple, “The East India Company: The Original Corporate Raiders,” The Guardian (March 4, 2015)
Hafta 5
[Coal and the advent of the Industrial Age] Barbara Freese, Coal: A Human History (Penguin, 2004), Chapters One and Four; Timothy Mitchell, Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil (Verso, 2011), sections
Hafta 6
[Of Poppies and Empire] Julia Lovell, The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China (Picador, 2011), Introduction and Chapter One; A. Üner Turgay, “The Nineteenth Century Golden Triangle: Chinese Consumption, Ottoman Production, American Connection,” International Journal of Turkish Studies (1983-1985)
Hafta 7
[Oil Regimes] Timothy Mitchell, Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil (Verso, 2011), sections; Daniel Yergin, The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power (Simon & Schuster, 1990), Prologue, Chapters Three and Chapter Six; Charles King, “Bazaar and Boomtown,” from The Ghost of Freedom: A History of the Caucasus (Oxford University Press, 2008)
Hafta 8
[Tea and Power] Alan and Iris MacFarlane, The Empire of Tea (Overlook Press, 2004), sections
Hafta 9
[Tea and Labor] A.R.T. Kemasang, “Tea – midwife and nurse to capitalism,” Race & Class (2009); Andrew B. Liu, “Incense and Industry: Labour and Capital in the Tea Districts of Huizhou, China,” Past & Present (2016)
Hafta 10
[Uranium and War-Making] Tom Zoellner, Uranium: War, Energy and the Rock that Shaped the World (Penguin, 2010), Introduction, Chapters One – Three
Hafta 11
[The Bomb] John Hersey, Hiroshima (Vintage, 1989)
Hafta 12
[Uranium and Markets] Gabriel Hecht; Being Nuclear: Africans and Global Uranium Trade (MIT Press, 2012), Introduction, and Chapter One.
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Paper Presentations
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Paper Presentations