World History Seminars 2000-2001

April 11, 2001 (Wednesday), 2:00 - 3:30
Ralph A. Austen, University of Chicago
"Colonial Peasantries in Africa, India and the Caribbean: Political Economy, Moral Economy, Postcolonial Consequences"

April 24, 2001 (Tuesday), 2:30 - 4:00
Peter Gran, Temple University
"The Rise of the Rich"

June 4, 2001 (Monday), 3:00 - 4:30
Jack Goldstone, University of California - Davis
"Efflorescences and Contingencies in the Rise of the West: The Sources of Macro-Social Change"