Technology and the Global Economy, 1000-2000

Calendar

WEEK #	TOPICS	KEY DUE DATES
1	Deep History and Big Data: Understanding Long-term Global Processes	Reading response due
2	Energy, the Standard of Living, and Measuring Economic Growth	Reading response due
3	The Tech Boom of the Middle Ages	Reading response due
4	Was Malthus Right?—Plague and the Post-Plague Economy	Reading response due
5	The Global Crisis of the 17th Century	First book review due Reading response due
6	Consumers Everywhere	Topic for the historiographical essay due Reading response due
7	The Industrial Revolution	Reading response due
8	Empire Building: East and West	Reading response due
9	Slavery, the ‘Resource Curse’ and Inequality in the Contemporary World? Guest speaker: Professor Johan Furie, Department of Economics, Stellenbosch University, South Africa	Second book review due Reading response due
10	Divergence: When and Why?	Annotated bibliography for the historiographical essay due and updated for class Reading response due
11	No class – Individual meetings to work on projects
12	Class presentations of individual final projects	Final papers due