#  Harvard Bookstore: Jim Downs in Conversation with Sven Beckert 

 



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 **September 13, 2021** 

 07:00PM - 08:00PM EDT 

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 **online only**  



 

 



 

 Harvard Book Store's virtual event series welcomes [Jim Downs](https://www.gettysburg.edu/academic-programs/history/faculty/employee_detail.dot?empId=813000549020013342), the Gilder Lehrman-National Endowment for the Humanities Professor of Civil War Era Studies and History at Gettysburg College and former WIGH Fellow, for a discussion of his latest book, *Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine*. He will be joined in conversation by Sven Beckert, acclaimed author of *Empire of Cotton: A Global History.*

 More information and registration link available from [Harvard Bookstore](https://www.harvard.com/event/virtual_event_jim_downs/).



 

 



 

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