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History
901
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19th-Century
American Capitalism
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Sept.
7 |
Introductions --
begin reading for next week; there’s lots of it! |
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Sept.
14 |
Conceptual
Tools: capitalism, dynamics of change, and power
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Raymond
Williams, Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society, rev. ed.
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1983), entries on “capitalism” and
“industry.”
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Adam
Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations,
ed. Edwin Cannan (Chicago: University of Chicago, 1976), Book I, chs.
i-ix; Book II, ch. iii; Book III, ch. iv.
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Karl
Marx, selections from Capital, in Robert C. Tucker, ed., The
Marx-Engels Reader, 2d ed. (New York: Norton, 1978), pp. 220, 294-438.
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Max
Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, intro. by
Anthony Giddens, 2d ed. (London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1976),
portion of Introduction (pp. 17-27) and Ch. 2 (47-78).
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Karl
Polanyi, The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic
Origins of Our Time [1st Beacon paperback edition] (Boston:
Beacon Press, 1957, © 1944), pp. 33-85.
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Charles
Sabel and Jonathan Zeitlin, “Historical Alternatives to Mass Production:
Politics, Markets and Technology in Nineteenth-Century
Industrialization,” Past and Present, no. 108 (August 1985):
133-176.
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Paul
A. David, “Clio and the Economics of QWERTY,” American Economic
Review 75 (May 1985): 332-337.
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Steven
Lukes, Power: A Radical View (London: Macmillan Press, 1974),
complete.
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Sept.
21 |
NO CLASS (rescheduled as individual
meetings below) |
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Sept.
28 |
Transition
to Capitalism [disc.
ldrs: Thea, Sara]
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Paul
A. Gilje, ed., Wages of Independence: Capitalism in the Early American
Republic (Madison, Wisc.: Madison House Publishers, 1997).
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Naomi
R. Lamoreaux, “Accounting for Capitalism in Early American History:
Farmers, Merchants, Manufacturers, and their Economic Worlds,” ms., rev.
[2000]. Used by permission.
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Oct.
5 |
Slavery
and Capitalism
[disc. ldrs: Rob H., Caroline]
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Walter
Johnson, Soul By Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market
(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999).
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Oct.
12 |
Technology
and Capitalism
[disc. ldrs: Rob R., Steve]
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Judith
A. McGaw, Most Wonderful Machine: Mechanization and Social Change in
Berkshire Paper Making, 1801-1885 (Princeton: Princeton University
Press, 1987).
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Oct.
19 |
Civil
War and Capitalism
[disc. ldrs: Joshua, Bill]
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Heather
Coe Richardson, The Greatest Nation of the Earth: Republican Economic
Policies during the Civil War (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard
University Press, 1997).
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Oct.
26 |
Labor
and Capitalism [disc. ldrs: David, Jeff]
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John
H. M. Laslett, Colliers Across the Sea:
A Comparative Study of Class Formation in Scotland and the American
Midwest, 1830-1924 (Urbana and Chicago:
University of Illinois Press, 2000).
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Nov.
2 |
The
Frontier and Capitalism
[disc. ldrs: Stacey, Aaron]
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Nov.
9 |
Women
and Capitalism
[disc. ldrs: Paul, Hyun]
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Nov.
16 |
Race
and Capitalism
[disc. ldrs: Keith, Daniel]
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Juliet
E. K. Walker, A History of Black Business in America: Capitalism,
Race, Entrepreneurship (New York: Macmillan Library Reference
USA/London: Prentice Hall International, 1998), chs. 1-7.
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Nov.
17 + 20-22 |
Individual
meetings re. papers |
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Nov.
23 |
THANKSGIVING
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Nov.
30 |
NO
CLASS (rescheduled tentatively to Dec. 8) |
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Dec.
6 |
Reports
on papers-in-progress
- WEDNESDAY, 9:00-11:00 a.m., 5257 Humanities (rescheduled seminar)
Steve,
Sarah, Jeff, Rob H., Daniel
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Dec.
7 |
Reports
on papers-in-progress
Aaron,
Stacey, Bill, David, Keith |
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Dec.
15 |
Reports
on papers-in-progress
Paul,
Joshua, Rob R., Caroline, Hyun
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Dec.
21 |
Final
papers due (changed from Dec. 18)
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