History
Donald Sassoon
How Capitalism Took Over the World
A historian representative of the British historical community, an icon of comparative European history
Lesson Plan
- Lesson Length : 10 Lessons ㆍ 1 hours 15 miutes
- Language : 한국어, English
The Rise of Capitalism: How It Became the World’s Dominant Order
About 30 years ago, when East Germans tore down the Berlin Wall on their own, it effectively led capitalism to be more firmly accepted by the world as an irreplaceable system. However, Donald Sassoon says capitalism hasn't had an unwavering victory. How should we view capitalism and what future should we envision as we live in a capitalist world that is accompanied by various contradictions and social inequality?
Donald Sassoon sheds light on the period from 1860 to World War I as the time of capitalism's rise, covering the history of capitalism through the process of the system's establishment and continuance. Following his lecture, which reveals and traces the history of democracy, imperialism, and nationalism that are all intertwined behind capitalism, we can confirm the process by which capitalism has established the world order and diagnose the problems that accompany it.
The capitalist system constantly demands growth despite facing various problems such as the depletion of resources, environmental issues, and climate change. In this unstable era, Donald Sassoon's lecture will have us questioning ourselves about capitalism that we have been taking for granted, and serve as an indicator through which we look back on our daily lives within it.
Full Bio
Donald Sassoon
- Queen Mary University of London, professor emeritus of comparative European history (2012 ~ present)
- Birbeck College, University of London, Ph.D., (1977, taught by Eric Hobsbawm)
- Pennsylvania State University, MA in Political Science. (1971)
- Winner of the Deutscher Memorial Prize (1997)
- Winner of the Premio Alassio Internazionale (2009)
- Naples Lifetime Achievement Award (2017)
- Acqui Award of History for Italian Literature (2019)
- Author of Morbid Symptoms: An Anatomy of a World in Crisis (2021), The Anxious Triumph: A Global History of Capitalism (2019), The Culture of the Europeans (2006), and more
Donald Sassoon is a professor emeritus of European comparative history at Queen Mary University of London and is considered one of the best historians in the United Kingdom.
He has an unrivaled narrative method. His writings are based on his excellent analyses of a wide range of history. He received the Deutscher Memorial Prize (1997), which is given to outstanding, progressive writings worldwide, through his book, One Hundred Years of Socialism: The West European Left in the Twentieth Century.
He became a virtuoso of comparative European history by researching the 100-year history of socialism that began with Karl Marx at the end of the 19th century and the history of European culture from the 1800s to the 2000s. Since then, his academic focus has been on the history of capitalism from 1880 to 1914. The world historical community has recognized the influence of his 100 insightful articles and essays based on his vast background knowledge and his books, which have been translated into 15 languages.
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