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Its foreign and economic policies affect the lives of people in virtually every country, its values are both cheered and resisted the world over, and its popular culture plays an intimate ... This course will examine the rise of the United States as an

Fashion emerged as a powerful economic sector that involved and newly interconnected broad groups of makers, traders, consumers and thinkers who embraced its effects and often ecological devastation.

29 Sep 2023: Seminar in Early Modern Economic and Social History Faculty of History, University of Cambridge, Lent 2022. ... 3 February: Heather Wolfe (Folger Library). Initial thoughts on the cultural and economic value of writing paper in early modern.

29 Sep 2023: Seminar in Early Modern Economic and Social History Faculty of History, University of Cambridge, Lent 2022.

The epochal shift toward neoliberalism-a web of related policies that, broadly speaking, reduced the footprint of government in society and reassigned economic power to private market forces-that began in

The paper will delve into the core issues of domestic politics, including: legitimation, ideology, and discourse; organisation and institutions; political economic models and their internal tensions; energy and environmental politics; as

From the past to the present, it probes the domestic and international factors that have influenced the social, economic and political trajectories of African states and citizenries. ... well as how discourses on ‘Africa’ or ‘the global south’

the changing status of women to the persecution of homosexuals, and from the spread of heresy to the economic impact of the first known outbreak of bubonic plague.

As such, students will be expected to have a knowledge of the sea’s basic political, religious, and economic transformations.

We will explore how globalisation theory may be applicable to medieval archaeology, and how material and ideological factors both shaped socio-economic change.