Silk and Innovation in Pre-modern China and Europe

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Dagmar Schafer (Director, Max Planck Institute) and Giorgio Riello (Professor of Early Modern Global History, EUI) give a lecture on ‘Silk and Innovation in Pre-modern China and Europe’.

Part of Panel 4: Technology, Institutions and Divergence: Arguments and Counterarguments About Rise and Fall, Success and Failure
Chair: Christopher McKenna (Oxford)

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Department: Faculty of History

Date Added: 29/09/2019

Duration: 00:23:26

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Cosmographical Foundations for the Promotion of Embryo Sciences and Proto- technologies in Pre-industrial Europe and Late Imperial China

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Patrick O’Brien (Professor of Economic History in the Department of Economic History, LSE) gives a lecture on ‘Cosmographical Foundations for the Promotion of Embryo Sciences and Proto- technologies in Pre-industrial Europe and Late Imperial China’.

Part of Panel 4: Technology, Institutions and Divergence: Arguments and Counterarguments About Rise and Fall, Success and Failure
Chair: Christopher McKenna (Oxford)

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Department: Faculty of History

Date Added: 29/09/2019

Duration: 00:17:12

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The Great Intellectual Divergence: Alexander Hamilton and the Global Origins of Environmental Investmentality

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Eli Cook (Assistant Professor of American History, Haifa) gives a lecture on ‘The Great Intellectual Divergence: Alexander Hamilton and the Global Origins of Environmental Investmentality’.

Part of Panel 3: Catastrophe or Liberation? Capitalism or Environment? Anthropocene, Energy, and Global Capitalism
Chair: Gareth Austin (Cambridge)

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Department: Faculty of History

Date Added: 28/09/2019

Duration: 00:18:45

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The Great Acceleration in Asia: Beyond 'Coal and North America'

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Kaoru Sugihara (Specially Appointed Professor at the Research Institute for Humanities and Nature, Kyoto) gives a lecture on ‘The Great Acceleration in Asia: Beyond 'Coal and North America'’.

Part of Panel 2: The Great Divergence: Timing and Causality 20 years later
Chair: Sebastian Conrad (Free University, Berlin)

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Department: Faculty of History

Date Added: 28/09/2019

Duration: 00:21:22

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Asia and the Great Divergence

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Bishnu Gupta (Professor of Economics, Warwick) gives a lecture on ‘Asia and the Great Divergence’.

Part of Panel 2: The Great Divergence: Timing and Causality 20 years later
Chair: Sebastian Conrad (Free University, Berlin)

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Department: Faculty of History

Date Added: 28/09/2019

Duration: 00:18:03

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Water and the Economic History of India

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Tirthankar Roy (Professor in Economic History, Department of Economic History, LSE) gives a lecture on ‘Water and the Economic History of India’.

Part of Panel 3: Catastrophe or Liberation? Capitalism or Environment? Anthropocene, Energy, and Global Capitalism
Chair: Gareth Austin (Cambridge)

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Department: Faculty of History

Date Added: 28/09/2019

Duration: 00:20:21

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Industry in the Global South, 1840s-1940s: Unfinished Business

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William Clarence-Smith (Emeritus Professor of History, SOAS) gives a lecture on ‘Industry in the Global South, 1840s-1940s: Unfinished Business’.

Part of Panel 3: Catastrophe or Liberation? Capitalism or Environment? Anthropocene, Energy, and Global Capitalism
Chair: Gareth Austin (Cambridge)

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Department: Faculty of History

Date Added: 28/09/2019

Duration: 00:18:42

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The Limits of Reciprocal Comparisons: Money and Trade Finance in the Early Modern Period

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Alejandra Irigoin (Associate Professor in the Department of Economic History, LSE) gives a lecture on ‘The Limits of Reciprocal Comparisons: Money and The Early Modern Period’.

Part of Panel 1: The European Miracle or Pre-Orient? Early Modern Convergence Tales as Rival Narratives
Chair: James Belich (Oxford)

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Alejandra Irigoin

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Department: Faculty of History

Date Added: 28/09/2019

Duration: 00:23:38

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Did the Little Divergence within Europe and America contribute to the Great Divergence?

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Leandro Prados de la Escosura (Professor of Economic History, Carlos III University, Madrid) gives a lecture on ‘Did the Little Divergence within Europe and America contribute to the Great Divergence?’

Part of panel 2: The Great Divergence: Timing and Causality 20 years later
Chair: Sebastian Conrad (Free University, Berlin)

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Department: Faculty of History

Date Added: 28/09/2019

Duration: 00:19:00

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The World Historical in China’s Twentieth Century: Perspectives on Modernity, Globalization and Globality

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Rebecca Karl (Professor of History, NYU) gives a lecture on ‘The World Historical in China’s Twentieth Century: Perspectives on Modernity, Globalization and Globality’.

Part of Panel 1: The European Miracle or Pre-Orient? Early Modern Convergence Tales as Rival Narratives
Chair: James Belich (Oxford)

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Department: Faculty of History

Date Added: 28/09/2019

Duration: 00:21:34

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