Featuring scholarship primarily published since 2012, this bibliography is meant to draw on the diverse expertise of the students in the course to define the field as broadly as possible in terms of chronology, geography, methodology, and disciplinarity. Students were tasked with contributing entries, while Professor Rockman contributed an introductory framing for each week. The bibliography follows a general chronology from the era of early modern global integration to the present. Many now-canonical texts in the field were omitted in favor of recent scholarship, much of which was produced by scholars who would not necessarily identify as historians of capitalism. Certain topics (e.g. labor resistance to capitalism, colonialism, slavery and abolition) appear in multiple places.The entries devote less attention to intellectual history and the theorization of capitalism, and instead foreground the “capitalism in action” of people doing specific things in discrete times and places.
Rockman, Seth, Ahmad, Osama, Chen, Marine, et al.,
"History of Capitalism Bibliography"
(2021).
History of Capitalism.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://doi.org/10.26300/z7sp-2v96
Historical research on the economic past has exploded over the last several decades, with much recent scholarship traveling under the label of “History of Capitalism.” This amorphous subfield stretches from the era of early modern global integration to the neoliberal …
