History 357 - History of British Capitalism

Drawing on insights from recent scholarship on the "histories of capitalism," this course explores the history of economic life in modern Britain, from the late seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries. Rather than take British economic development as exemplary of modernization we will situate that which was particular about the British case against the pluralities of capitalism that have evolved over the past three centuries. Topics include revolutions in agriculture, finance, commerce and manufacturing; the political economy of empire; the relationship between economic ideas, institutions and practice; and, the shaping of everyday economic life by gender, class and race.

This course is open to juniors and seniors