Workshop on the Cultural History of Capitalism, University of Georgia

Why the History of Capitalism?

Although studies of capitalism reach back to Adam Smith and Karl Marx, faculty and graduate students in the University of Georgia's Department of History are working on cutting-edge efforts to unite labor history, world-systems theory, the history of slavery, cultural and intellectual history, environmental history, immigration history, economic history, and business and technological history into a single field of analysis, with a global perspective. Such topics as migration and immigration, proletarianization, commodity chains and flows, political and cultural imperialism, social resistance to the spread of global capitalism, and the impact of capitalism on the experiences of families and the lives of women are key issues for historians at the University of Georgia and elsewhere, but they are rarely put together into a coherent package.

The Workshop

With funding generously provided by the Willson Center for the Humanities and Arts, we invite prominent scholars from national, regional, and local institutions to present work in progress to University of Georgia faculty and graduate students. Papers are precirculated via this website (see Upcoming Events); all participants are expected to have read papers before attending discussions to promote an atmosphere of intellectual exchange.

University of Georgia
Department of History
LeConte Hall
Athens, Georgia
Contact: history at uga dot edu

Banner Image: Detail from "The War of Wealth," 1895 theatrical poster, from the Library of Congress (POS - TH - 1895 .W37)