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Summer talks: Connected Histories of Capitalism

Fabrizio Borchi

May 13, 2023 — 1 min read

13 June - 20 September 2023, Florence:

Join us for our 2023 Lecture Series Summer Talks on Connected Histories of Capitalism at the European University Institute (Florence, Italy) and on Zoom in June and September!

Programme and links for registration

Jointly organised by CAPASIA with the the European Research Council project ECOINT – Twentieth-Century International Economic Thinking and the Complex History of Globalization and the and the EUI Conversations on the New Histories of Capitalism Working Group.

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ComEnv24 programme released

Situating the European Factory in the Early Modern Bazaar

Free Trade, the Abolition of Monopoly, and the Dissolution of East India Company Factories in India and Canton, 1813-1833

CfP: Port Cities Conference 2025