<p>Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Study of past 500 years of global economic history. Consideration of myth of economic growth, justice of distribution, and experiments with alternatives to capitalism. Introduction to foundational theoretical works that span ideological spectrums, contextualized in specific historical situations of both Western and non-Western regions. Attention to non-Western regions challenges conventional ideas of capitalism and prominence of West in capitalism scholarship. P/NP or letter grading.</p>

History

College of Letters and Science

General Education — Historical Analysis (Society & Culture)

General Education — Social Analysis (Society & Culture)

HIST 12D - Inequality: Global History of Capitalism

Inequality: Global History of Capitalism

Students will analyze and discuss a diverse array of theoretical and historiographical works to gain an in-depth comprehension of the different premises, approaches, and methodologies that have been used to examine the issues of economics, politics, race, class, and gender in the global history of capitalism.

Students will acquire a general knowledge of the patterns of global economic history from 1500 to the present, understanding the complex interactions of economic, social, cultural, and political processes that shaped the modern world

Students will develop their quantitative literacy by learning how scholars bring historical data to bear on their questions of study and discussing what makes data usage (in)effective and (ir)responsible

Students will be able to use primary and secondary sources (including quantitative data) to construct arguments of their own to engage with important questions in an historically informed way.

General Catalog

Inequality: Global History of Capitalism

HIST 12D

5 units