Global Capitalism (History 2710), Instructor: Niklas Frykman
This course will explore the history of capitalism in explicitly global context. Engaging primarily with the work of historians, but alongside that of historically-minded sociologists, critical geographers, anthropologists, feminist theorists, and economists, the aim will be to understand historical capitalism in relation to other economic systems, to analyze the forces that produced and propelled it to global dominance, and the ways in which it has reorganized the relationships between people and peoples, and between humans and non-human nature, on a global scale over the past 500 years. There will be room in the schedule for students to read relevant works relating to their own areas of research.