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SUMMARY:Sugar\, science and the history of capitalism - David Singerman (U
 niversity of Virginia)
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CONTACT:Agnes Bolinska
DESCRIPTION:In recent years\, the history of capitalism has gained promine
 nce as a powerful framework for understanding the development of the Unite
 d States and its relationship to the world. But many of the field's claims
  about commodities\, networks and knowledge rest on categories which the h
 istory of science has shown to be unstable and contested. This paper takes
  as its focus the sugar trade of the nineteenth and early twentieth centur
 ies\, one of the history of capitalism's canonical cases. Sugar showcases 
 how approaches pioneered by the history of science can reorient our unders
 tanding of corruption\, monopoly\, labour and other problems that remain a
 s crucial to today's Second Gilded Age as they were to the First.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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