Spring 2020  |  HIST 3419 Section 090: History of Capitalism: Uneven Development Since 1500 (65968)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Meets With:
GLOS 3219 Section 001
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/21/2020 - 05/04/2020
Mon 06:20PM - 08:50PM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 125
Enrollment Status:
Open (37 of 40 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Causes of economic inequities in contemporary world. Long-term economic developments in cases taken from Africa, Asia, Europe, and North/South America. Various theoretical approaches to study of economic development. Introduction to key concepts.
Class Description:
This course traces the origins and development of capitalism from the sixteenth century English countryside to contemporary China. We examine how political institutions and social relations configure in different places and in different ways the economic and market behavior of social classes, how goods are produced, the social division of labor (who produces what and for whom), and long-term economic outcomes. The course examines these issues in a variety of socio-political and national contexts, taking examples from Asia, Europe, and the Atlantic World (Europe, America and East Africa) to study the different forms taken by agricultural production (peasants, capitalist farmers, slave-based commodity production) and manufacturing (household handicrafts, industrial capitalism, and slave-based manufacturing). The course will also examine different approaches to the study of the origins of capitalism proposed by the classical economists (Smith, Malthus,, and Marx) as well as contemporary neo-classical and Marxist theories of how the modern world economy came about. The course does not require an understanding of economic principles or language, and is accessible to those who have had no exposure to economics. About 60% of the course is devoted to the period before 1945 and 40% to the period since.
Grading:
4 take-home essay exams.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/65968/1203
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
5 December 2016

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