capitalism

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  2/4/19
  

  At Checkpoint Charlie, Cold War History Confronts Crass Commercialism

  GWU Professor Hope Harrison is quoted extensively in the piece. 

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• SOURCE: New Republic
  4-20-18
  

  Is Sean Wilentz right that liberals believe in capitalism and progressives don’t?

  by Win McCormack

  Some doubt the distinction he made in a recent essay that drew wide attention.

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• 2/25/18
  

  What this Historian Discovered by Traveling the World Will Dishearten Neo-Liberals

  by Annelise Orleck

  Capitalism is ravaging the working class from one end of the globe to the other.

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• 12/24/17
  

  It’s Not Mexico that’s the Problem. It’s Capitalism.

  by John Tutino

  Mexicans’ continuing search for sustainable lives and sustaining communities is proclaimed an assault on U.S. power and prosperity. This is a distraction.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  9-12-17
  

  The cost of coastal capitalism: How greedy developers left Miami ripe for destruction

  by Andrew W. Kahrl

  Building on vulnerable coastlines isn't about ignorance or hubris — it's about profit.

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  6-1-17
  

  Eric Foner hails the work of the young historians reinventing the history of capitalism

  by Eric Foner

  "Then and now, the key issue facing American society was as old as the republic itself: Is it possible to reconcile capitalism and democracy? On this question, the jury is still out.”

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• SOURCE: Aeon
  12-31-15
  

  Historians are rewriting the history of slavery and capitalism

  The new insight is that profit motives were characteristic of American slavery.

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• SOURCE: OZY
  11-10-15
  

  How England's Worst King Spawned Capitalism

  by Simon Constable

  Henry VIII’s decision to dissolve hundreds of monasteries was a revolutionary act by a monarch spouting the need for monastic reform. What this despot with outsize appetites could not have foreseen is that by selling off the monks’ land, he opened it to market forces.

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• SOURCE: The Junto
  10-27-15
  

  Historians’ debate over capitalism is heating up

  The new critiques are drawing a response.

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• 2-13-15
  

  Why Aren’t People Up in Arms About Capitalism these Days?

  by Steve Fraser

  Our times are often compared with the Gilded Age of the 19th century, but back then people complained loudly. Why don’t they today?

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• SOURCE: YouTube
  1-15-15
  

  Cornell is becoming a center of research into the history of capitalism (video)

  The History of Capitalism Initiative is Cornell University's intellectual center for ideas, programs, research, and curriculum development on the history of American capitalism.

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• SOURCE: Slate
  12-2-14
  

  The brutal history of cotton debunks many of the most popular myths about capitalism.

  by Eric Herschthal

  Sven Beckert’s remarkable and unsettling new book, "Empire of Cotton: A Global History," puts capitalism in a new light.

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  11-24-14
  

  Hottest subfield in history today may be the history of capitalism ... but The Nation wonders what happens if growth stalls (or if we're better off if it does)

  by Timothy Shenk

  Capitalism’s newest critics offer a groundbreaking account of slavery, but does their economic history add up?

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• SOURCE: USA Today
  10-27-14
  

  How we 'won' in Vietnam, but are losing at home

  by Glenn Harlan Reynolds

  Special interests weigh down America's economy, while Vietnam's young capitalism booms.

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• 9-21-14
  

  This Is What Happens When We Try to Reduce the Evil of Slavery to a Simple Formula

  by Jim Downs

  The Economist's withdrawal of a controversial book review should be considered a "teachable moment." Here's how to teach it. 

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• 4-10-14
  

  Why We Stopped Believing in Big Corporations (Interview)

  by Louis Hyman

  Once upon a time we loved corporations.  Then the sixties happened. 

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• 12-16-13
  

  Pope Francis's Christian Capitalist Criticism

  by Walter G. Moss

  Francis isn't a Marxist -- his critique of capitalism draws upon centuries of Catholic theology.

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• SOURCE: More Or Less Bunk
  8-29-13
  

  What Is To Be Done About Higher Education?

  by Jonathan Rees

  You can’t have a race to the bottom when the bottom is gone.

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• Why the Business Community and the GOP Base are Parting Ways on Immigration

  by Elizabeth Tandy Shermer

  Executives have made little attempt to bridge the economic and political divides their predecessors created between workers and managers.

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• Warehousing is as American as Apple Pie (and Whiskey)

  by Daniel S. Margolies

  Who knew warehouses could be so interesting, let alone so powerful?