This course is available on the BSc in Economic History, BSc in Economic History with Economics and BSc in Economics and Economic History. This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit. This course is available to General Course students.
This course is available on the BSc in Economic History, BSc in Economic History with Economics and BSc in Economics and Economic History. This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit. This course is available to General Course students.
10 hours of lectures and 10 hours of seminars in the MT. 10 hours of lectures and 10 hours of seminars in the LT. This course will be taught over 20 one-hour lectures with a weekly discussion section.
The podcast project will include several formative assessments, due throughout the Lent term. These formative assessments are: A review and outline of an existing historical podcast, a topic and outline for the students' podcast and audio reading responses for discussion section.
Behrendt, Stephen D.? (2001). "Markets, Transaction Cycles, and Profits: Merchant Decision Making in the British Slave Trade." The William and Mary Quarterly 58, no. 1: 171-204. Berry, Daina Ramey. (2017). The Price for their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation, Boston: Beacon Press. Galenson, David W. (1984). "The Rise and Fall of Indentured Servitude in the Americas: An Economic Analysis." The Journal of Economic History 44, no. 1: 1-26 Hunter, Tera. (2017). Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century.? Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. Richardson David. (2001). ?Shipboard Revolts, African Authority and the Atlantic Slave trade,? William and Mary Quarterly, 58: 69-92 Rosenthal Caitlin. (2018) Accounting for Slavery: Masters and Management. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press Schmidt-Nowara, Christopher. (2011). Slavery, Freedom, and Abolition in Latin America and the Atlantic World.? Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. Wright Gavin. (2003) "Slavery and American Agricultural History." Agricultural History 77, no. 4: 527-52.
Essay (50%, 4000 words) and podcast (50%) in the LT.