Now i am so pleased in to introduce tonights speakers ulbe bosma is the Senior Researcher at the Internet Institute of social history and professor of International Social history at the Free University of amsterdam. He is the author of the making of a periphery and the sugar plantation in india and indonesia. He is joined in conversation tonight sharmila sen the editorial and director of special initiative at Harvard University press. She was formerly a faculty member of the Harvard English Department and is the author the Award Winning . Not quite. Not losing and finding race in america tonight. Elizabeth asma is presenting his new book, the world of sugar how the sweet stuff transformed our politics, health and, environment over 2000 years. This book, a definitive 2500 year history of sugar and its human costs, which author sven beckert says explores something as mundane as sugar came to play a crucial role in making of the world we inhabit today. Attentive to local specificity as m
Now i am so pleased in to introduce tonights speakers ulbe bosma is the Senior Researcher at the Internet Institute of social history and professor of International Social history at the Free University of amsterdam. He is the author of the making of a periphery and the sugar plantation in india and indonesia. He is joined in conversation tonight sharmila sen the editorial and director of special initiative at Harvard University press. She was formerly a faculty member of the Harvard English Department and is the author the Award Winning . Not quite. Not losing and finding race in america tonight. Elizabeth asma is presenting his new book, the world of sugar how the sweet stuff transformed our politics, health and, environment over 2000 years. This book, a definitive 2500 year history of sugar and its human costs, which author sven beckert says explores something as mundane as sugar came to play a crucial role in making of the world we inhabit today. Attentive to local specificity as m
Give you guys a lecture. Ill leave you in the capable happened of our in the hands of our capable author instead. In his new book, americana, we go through a 400yearlong journey of capitalism highlighting some of our industries most important inventions from. The arrival of the mayflower to the inner workings of the mafia, he presents an exhilarating and eyeopening perspective of an American History of capitalism that im sure hes very excited to share with you all today. Mr. Srinavasan is an accomplished entrepreneur spanning pop culture, social media, and content. As a child he lived in the south, the rust belt, Southern California and the pacific northwest. His book is available for sale in the bookstore, and hell be up here afterwards for a book signing so, please, help me welcome mr. Srinavasan, everyone. [applause] thanks, everyone, for having me, and this is only my secondever book event, so i am very glad that you guys took a big chance on coming out and hopefully, based on how
I think we will get started. I want to thank julia for allowing me to say a few words. Welcome to the new school. Welcome to one of the featured events at the center for capitalism studies. For a couple of years i taught a course at our undergraduate division on understanding global capitalism and the first day we would come in and everyone had to look at the tag of the shirt on the shirt of the person to their left and tell us what country that shirt was made in. That was the first thing we did in understanding global capitalism and we would write the names of the countries on the board. It was invariably 25 countries. Actually remarkable in the era that the production is still quite diversified. What we learned by looking at cotton shirts in that case was about globalization of production. We learned about the structure of the modern corporation, about grounding Fashion Design and the relation between trade and capital movements but what we didnt have when i taught the course was sve
[inaudible conversations] i think we will get started. I want to thank julia ott before introducer for allowing me to say a few words. Welcome the new school. Welcome to one of the featured events of the Harvard Center for capitalism studies. For a couple of years i taught a course at eugene college, our undergraduate division, on understanding Global Capitalism. The first day we become in and everyone had to look at the tag of the shirt to the person, shirt of the person to their loved and tell us what country that shirt was made in. So that was the first thing we did in understanding Global Capitalism. We would write the names of the countries on the board. And it was invariably 25 countries. Actually remarkable that the production still quite diversified. What we learned by looking at cotton shirts in that case was about globalization of production. We learned about the modern structure of the modern corporation, about branding, fashion design, about the relationship between trade a