Category: Class Notes

March 21, 2022 Kirk Boott Boott Cotton Mill Mill Girls Women’s Work Alice Kessler Harris Carol Belkin Linda Kerber Coverture Course Summation War Capitalism Cot...

March 14, 2022 Human Capital Diana Ramey Berry America’s First Great Depression Deregulation in the 1830s Kathryn Boodrey The Panic of 1837 The Birth of America...

March 7, 2022 Slavery in the New World The First Slavery The Second Slavery Slavery in America The “Lost Cause” The Half Has Never Been Told Plantation Innovati...

February 28, 2022 The Shift to Slave Labor Decline in Available Indentured Servants Development of the British Slave Trade Company of Royal Adventurers The Brit...

February 21, 2022 Slavery Importance of slavery in production of sugar Origin of slave trade How were slaves obtained? Sugar slavery Conquest, slavery, and geno...

February 14, 2022 Globalization of trade Eastern hemisphere crops (sugar cane & cotton) introduced in Americas Conquest, genocide, and slavery Origins of In...

February 7, 2022 Workhouses created to compel indigents to either perform mindless, arduous, repetitive tasks if the would not submit to working in factories Ch...

I may have caused some confusion by including some material on mid-nineteenth century Manchester in the first class. After that I cycled back to the situation i...

Last First Title Date Publisher Aliber Robert Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises, 7th Edition 2015 Palgrave Macmillan Baptist Edward&nbs...

January 17, 2022 Today cotton is found everywhere, it is cheap and commonplace In the past it was rare and expensive – used as wall hangings not clothing If onl...