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Environment and Capitalism
Course Number: | HIST 253 |
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Title: | Environment and Capitalism |
Day & Time 1: | MWF 11:00AM 11:50AM |
Instructor I: | Ren C |
Credit: | 1.00 |
Course Description: | A survey of the history of capitalism through an environmental perspective, from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries. With particular focus on the lived experiences of economic life and environmental transformation in the non-Western world. Major themes include early modern origins of capitalism, industrial revolution and colonial expansion, the “great divergence” between Asia and Europe, global history of commodities, and the ongoing crises of global capitalism in light of environmental degradation and climate change. |
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