history of capitalism

• SOURCE: Majority Report with Sam Seder
  4/19/2021
  

  How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America w/ Joshua D. Rothman

  Historian Joshua D. Rothman discusses "The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America," a new book linking the internal slave trade to the development of American capitalism. 

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian
  4/19/2021
  

  Before the Civil War, New Orleans Was the Center of the U.S. Slave Trade (Excerpt)

  by Joshua D. Rothman

  After Congress ended the importation of enslaved people in 1808, domestic traders made New Orleans the center of an increasingly active and lucrative slave trade. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  4/20/2021
  

  The Men Who Turned Slavery Into Big Business

  by Joshua D. Rothman

  "We still live in the world that Franklin and Armfield’s profits helped build, and with the enduring inequalities that they and their industry entrenched."

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• SOURCE: Dissent
  4/6/2021
  

  The End of Development

  by Tim Barker

  "Capitalism’s publicists are experiencing something of what Marxists went through after 1989, with one important difference: capitalism may be increasingly discredited, but it has not disappeared the way state socialism did."

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  3/3/2021
  

  Online Roundtable: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s ‘Race for Profit’

  Black Perspectives, the blog of the African American Intellectual History Society, will sponsor a virtual roundtable on the award-winning "Race For Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership" with new essays being released beginning March 8. 

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• SOURCE: University of California Press
  2/9/2021
  

  Who Gets to Govern the Global Economy?

  by Christy Thornton

  Johns Hopkins Latin Americanist Christy Thornton describes her book "Revolution In Development" and its contribution to understanding how Mexican officials fought against dismissive treatment from the world's leading economic powers as they sought a voice in shaping the international economic order. 

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  12/2/2020
  

  The Gadfly of American Plutocracy (Review)

  by Simon Torracinta

  A new biography of the social theorist examines how his approach to understanding a past gilded age can offer lessons for our present one. 

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  10/28/2020
  

  London’s Centuries-Old Insurance Market Investigates Its Slavery Role

  Assessing the current company's financial ties to slavery requires understanding how the entity functioned as a pass-through for buyers and sellers of merchant insurance, rather than as an underwriter or funder of insurance policies. 

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  9/21/2020
  

  Eric Williams’ Foundational Work on Slavery, Industry, and Wealth

  by Katie Donington

  Debates over Eric Williams’s work have ebbed and flowed ever since he first published Capitalism and Slavery in 1944. His book inspired a body of historiography to which many historians of slavery and abolition have added their voices over the decades.

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• SOURCE: David Harvey
  9/3/2020
  

  David Harvey and David Graeber Discuss "Debt" (Video)

  Political theorists David Harvey and David Graeber discuss Graeber's book "Debt: The First 5,000 Years" at the CUNY Graduate Center in 2012. 

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• SOURCE: The Economic Historian
  8/3/2020
  

  Capitalism and Slavery: A Discussion with Caitlin Rosenthal, Tom Cutterham, and Eric Hilt

  "Much has been made about how much historians can learn from economists, and I think that this is an area where economists could learn a lot from historians. We are trained to look at things from multiple perspectives and to understand complex contexts."--Caitlin Rosenthal

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• SOURCE: Reuters
  6/18/2020
  

  Lloyd's of London to Pay for 'Shameful' Atlantic Slave Trade Role

  The Lloyd’s of London insurance market apologised on Thursday for its “shameful” role in the 18th and 19th Century Atlantic slave trade and pledged to fund opportunities for black and ethnic minority people.

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  5/8/2020
  

  ‘The 1619 Project’ Tells a False Story About Capitalism, Too

  by Allen C. Guelzo

  Allen Guelzo argues that pro-slavery southerners portrayed their society as opposed to growing industrial capitalism, not the integral part of it that some recent historians have claimed. 

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• POLL: Have You Engaged with the History of Capitalism?

  by HNN Staff

  The New York Times' Jennifer Schuessler published a story in last Sunday's edition on the newfound popularity of the history of capitalism. "A specter is haunting university history departments," she wrote, "the specter of capitalism."This new history of capitalism integrates social and cultural approaches to economic history and adopts a strictly post-Cold War mentality. Gone are hoary Marxist bromides and questions about why socialism failed to develop as a political movement in the United States; instead, the new generation of history of capitalism scholars -- those profiled in the article include Julia Ott, Bethany Moreton, Louis Hyman, and Stephen Mihm -- focus on the practice of capitalism by the people in the middle and at the top, melding a sound knowledge of math and economics with race and gender analyses.

• SOURCE: NYT
  4-7-13
  

  In history departments, it’s up with capitalism

  A specter is haunting university history departments: the specter of capitalism.After decades of “history from below,” focusing on women, minorities and other marginalized people seizing their destiny, a new generation of scholars is increasingly turning to what, strangely, risked becoming the most marginalized group of all: the bosses, bankers and brokers who run the economy.Even before the financial crisis, courses in “the history of capitalism” — as the new discipline bills itself — began proliferating on campuses, along with dissertations on once deeply unsexy topics like insurance, banking and regulation. The events of 2008 and their long aftermath have given urgency to the scholarly realization that it really is the economy, stupid....