Lessons from the First Globalization

November 17, 2017 4:15PM Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, 27 Kirkland St, Hoffmann Room

"Lessons from the First Globalization" Suzanne Berger, Raphael Dorman-Helen Starbuck Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Faculty Associate, CES, Harvard University.

Discussant: Patrice Higonnet 

Robert Walton Goelet Research Professor of French History, Harvard University; Resident Faculty, CES, Harvard University

Note:

The short paper to be discussed is “How the First Globalization Survived Populism” which reflects on the politics of supporting freer flows of people, capital, and goods across borders in the period 1870-1914. It is part of a larger project analyzing debates over globalization in France, UK, Germany, and the USA in the period 1870-1914. As background and for a sense of the larger questions, participants might wish to read also the attached document “The First Globalization: Lessons from the French.”

Both papers are attached and located at this link.

https://ces.fas.harvard.edu/events/2017/11/seminar-of-the-state-and-capitalism

Co-Chairs: Peter A. Hall and Kathleen Thelen

All welcome.