Natural Resources, Sovereignty and Markets: Revisiting Socio-Economic Histories of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Organizer: Moritz von Brescius (Harvard/Bern)
"Financing Slave Coffee Plantations in Imperial Brazil" Gabriel Sterman, WIGH Global Fellow; PhD Candidate in History, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil.
This research examines how Brazil's boom in coffee production between 1831-1850 happened during a period the traditional historiography has marked as...
History Department Conference Room (125), Robinson Hall, 35 Quincy Street
"The Project State and Its Rivals: A New History of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries" Charles S. Maier, Leverett Saltonstall Research Professor of History, Emeritus, Harvard University
Student Commentator: Christopher Malley, PhD Candidate in History, Harvard University Faculty Commentator: Sugata Bose, Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History, Harvard University