The WIGH Steering Committee welcomes two new members: Rosie Bsheer (Assistant Professor of History, Harvard University) and Sophus Reinert (Marvin Bower Associate Professor, Harvard Business School). They will join the fourteen other Steering Committee members in providing guidance and oversight to the mission and... Read more about New steering committee members

DEADLINE EXTENDED- We have extended the application deadline for our 2019-2020 Global History Fellowship. Applications will be accepted through January 2nd. https://wigh.wcfia.harvard.edu/book/dissertation-research-grants Read more about Fellowship Application Deadline Extended

L'information sur la soumission d'un article pour la conférence Les villes coloniales dans une perspective globale est maintenant disponible en français.

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Towards a Global History of Primitive Accumulation

Amsterdam, 9-11 May 2019

A conference co-sponsored by the International Institute of Social History, Carnegie Mellon University, and the University of Pittsburgh

This conference aims for a historically grounded rethinking of the concept of “primitive” or “original” accumulation of capital. With this phrase, Karl Marx tried to capture the dual process by which wealth was accumulated in the hands of capitalists on the one hand, and labor power was...

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