EIHS Workshop: The Consequences of Colonialism, Capitalism, and Empire: Looking Out from the Archive

The expansion of colonialism and empire brought with it intense exchanges of ideas, peoples, goods, and capital. Over the last several decades, historians working on colonialism and capitalism in various regions of the world have asked critical questions: How did global capital alter the lives of colonized and indigenous peoples? What were the origins and political trajectories of capitalist ideologies that shaped transnational transactions? In what ways were the various forms and patterns of capitalism essential for understanding modernities? In this panel, historians working on different aspects of the colonizer-colonized relationships in Hong Kong, France, and North America consider the ways in which alternative readings of colonial archives can yield different narratives in histories of capitalism.

Justin Chun-Yin Cheng (PhD Student, History, University of Michigan)
Keanu Heydari (PhD Candidate, History, University of Michigan)
Leopoldo Solis Martinez (PhD Student, History, University of Michigan)
Mrinalini Sinha (moderator; Alice Freeman Palmer Professor of History, University of Michigan)

This event presented by the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible in part by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.