17 Episodes

  1. Wrap up and reflection part 2

    Published: 9/29/2019

  2. Wrap up reflection part 1

    Published: 9/29/2019

  3. Strange Legacies of Divergence:  The Chinese Gold Mining Diaspora 1850-1910

    Published: 9/29/2019

  4. Divisions of Labour: the Household and the Economy

    Published: 9/29/2019

  5. Household, Wage Labour and Capitalist Transformations in 20th Century Africa

    Published: 9/29/2019

  6. China and the West: Many Great Divergences

    Published: 9/29/2019

  7. Silk and Innovation in Pre-modern China and Europe

    Published: 9/29/2019

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

    Published: 9/29/2019

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

    Published: 9/28/2019

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

    Published: 9/28/2019

  11. Asia and the Great Divergence

    Published: 9/28/2019

  12. Water and the Economic History of India

    Published: 9/28/2019

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

    Published: 9/28/2019

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

    Published: 9/28/2019

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

    Published: 9/28/2019

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

    Published: 9/28/2019

  17. The Spaces In Between: What is Global about the History of Capitalism?

    Published: 9/28/2019

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Convergence/Divergence: New Approaches to the Global History of Capitalism Conference The Global History of Capitalism project, housed within the Oxford Centre for Global History, is a focal point for ongoing scholarship on the history of capitalism. The project promotes an explicitly global perspective that contextualises the history of capitalism beyond the West and investigates the deep institutional roots of capitalist systems. The Global History of Capitalism project hosted the conference ‘Convergence/Divergence: New Approaches to the Global History of Capitalism’ on September 28-29 2019. The conference brought together cultural, economic, and political historians of global capitalism with the aim of starting a new conversation about the relationship between capitalism and global history. The conference organisers took the broad theme of global divergences and convergences (from the 1500s to the present) as the starting point for discussion. Global historians and historians of capitalism continue to debate whether there was a “Great Divergence” between the West and Asia in the nineteenth-century. Presenters discussed the timing and causality of the Great Divergence, tales of convergence between Europe and Asia, and new frameworks of discussion for global economic history. The conference received funding from the Global History of Capitalism Project and Brasenose College, Oxford.