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DESCRIPTION:World history and globalization have long been intertwined. The
  general narrative of world history as one of intensifying cross-cultural 
 interactions reflects the emergence of the field during the 1990s\, when a
  combination of technological innovations and the end of the Cold War made
  global integration seem inevitable. The subsequent decades have revealed 
 that this was wildly premature. \n\nOne key question that world historians
  should engage with is the role of capitalism in facilitating global conne
 ctions. This is obviously a difficult question and requires wading into de
 bates over the origins of capitalism\, its presence in different parts of 
 the world\, and its very nature. This paper reflects the evolution of my o
 wn teaching on the link between capitalism and world history\, one influen
 ced by the book A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things. In this book
 \, authors Raj Patel and Jason Moore argue that capitalism primarily origi
 nated in the systems of war debt and conquest perfected during the Reconqu
 ista\, and that this system then spread into newly discovered lands across
  the Atlantic. Capitalist frontiers were structured to generate extraordin
 ary short-term profits through strategies of cheapening\, which included c
 heapening the importance of the natural world (upon which all life depends
 ). They argue that capitalism’s ongoing effects are so great that the mo
 dern era can best be described as the Capitalocene.\n\nBy focusing on capi
 talism and its unceasing desire for growth\, instructors can help students
  understand why many people around the world have not embraced globalizati
 on. While it is important to acknowledge that there is no single answer fo
 r this phenomenon\, providing students with a history of the foundation an
 d expansion of capitalism better equips them to understand the present.
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LOCATION:Room 208 (Seats 40)
SUMMARY:Globalization and Cheap Things - David Eaton
URL:https://pretalx.com/wha-annual-meeting-korea-2026/talk/CKGL8R/
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