Host is so good to see you. Is so good to be here. I love the book is incredibly important the basic question in the first section of the book what is surveillance . What is your definition . Lets start with that. Back up a little bit and give a tiny bit of context has long been understood that in the history of capitalism the key way that capitalism evolves is by taking things that live outside the marketplace and outside the Market Dynamic to bring that into the market and as a state same historian wrote about the basic mechanisms of industrial capitalism and the idea was human activity that was claimed for the marketplace that made it possible for labor to be controlled and to be bought and factory work in all of those that became the hallmark of modernity and was reborn as real estate or early and so lets fastforward a century not the beginning of the 21st centur century, the insight was capitalism was invented we could take Human Experience specifically private Human Experience an
Our members, our revolution society, this is a wonderful people who are great supporters of our music. We are pleased to partner with harvard for trust, you will see him up on the screen here. I know tim but all i can see is darkness out there. So lets thank them for making these possible. [applause] its a real pleasure to be welcoming doctor Vincent Brown this evening as is sometimes the case but not all that often, we are welcoming a good friend to the museum here this evening. Prince was one of the group of scholars who consulted with us during the development of the exhibitions and interactants of the present here. Long before jacques was in the ground and the steel began rising here in philadelphia, we were tapping his brain for stories of the American Revolution. It turned into great personal stories and our core exhibition here. Prince is a Charles Moore professor of africanAmerican History. And Harvard University. If you have an opportunity to go online, dont do it right now on
In the near future on booktv on cspan2. Welcome to you all, im scott stevenson, im the president ceo of the museum of the American Revolution. Its wonderful to have so many familiar faces in the audience and im pleased were live stream the program this evening and we will be on booktv so we will live on forever and ever as 3 00 a. M. When you cant sleep. I will get a text from my father the following morning that says youre on television again. Im curious a show of hands id like to ask how many of you are visiting the first time this evening to the museum. Welcome to all of you. You are surrounded by many of our members, members of our founding members of the museum, members of our Revolution Society and this is a wonderful fellowship of people who are great supporters of the museum. We are very pleased to partner with Haverford Trust you will see them up on the screen here. I know tim glaspie but all i can see is darkness out there, tim and joe mcglocklin. Lets thank them for making r
Its wonderful to have so many familiar faces in the audience and im pleased were live stream the program this evening and we will be on booktv so we will live on forever and ever as 3 00 a. M. When you cant sleep. I will get a text from my father the following morning that says youre on television again. Im curious a show of hands id like to ask how many of you are visiting the first time this evening to the museum. Welcome to all of you. You are surrounded by many of our members, members of our founding members of the museum, members of our Revolution Society and this is a wonderful fellowship of people who are great supporters of the museum. We are very pleased to partner with Haverford Trust you will see them up on the screen here. I know tim glaspie but all i can see is darkness out there, tim and joe mcglocklin. Lets thank them for making read the revolution possible. [applause] its a real pleasure to be welcoming doctor Vincent Brown this evening. As is sometimes the case but not
Not only understanding history but understanding our present. Which this speaker absolutely is going to be addressing all of those things. Dr. Akin is an associate professor at tulane university, where he specializes in the late Ottoman Empire and republican turkey. His book, when the war came home examines the Ottoman Empires catastrophic experience of the First World War and analyzes the impact of the war on the civilian population and was named the 2018 choice award for outstanding academic title. He is the coeditor of the Ottoman Empire middle east section of the 191419 18 Online International encyclopedia of the First World War. If you have not use that as a resource yet, you really need to take a look at it. That 19141918 encyclopedia is spectacular with global contributors, many of whom you have seen on the stage today, and on the stage if you have been here before. Do check that out. Thank you for the work you have put into that. He is currently working on a monograph about the