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Sven Beckert is Laird Bell Professor of History at Harvard University, where he teaches the history of the United States in the nineteenth century, and global history. With Christine A. Desan, he is the co-director of the Program on the Study of Capitalism at Harvard University. .. more

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History at Queen's University Belfast @qubhistory.bsky.social · 1d
In his outstanding 2025 Wiles Lectures at QUB, Sven Beckert addressed many of the themes and episodes which are now explored at length in his new book 'Capitalism: a global history' - it's reviewed here by Marcus Rediker in the NYT: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/b...
How Capitalism Took Over the World
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Sven Beckert @svenbeckert.bsky.social · 2d
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Capitalism by Sven Beckert: 9780735220836 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
Buy Capitalism by Sven Beckert from Penguin Random House
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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 2d
How a system of colonial trusteeship converted Native wealth into settler capital.

Vested Interests by Emilie Connolly is now available (20 Jan UK pub).

Learn more and order yours: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

#History #AmericanHistory #USHistory #ReadUP
Vested Interests: Trusteeship and Native Dispossession in the United States by Emilie Connolly

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Weatherhead Center for International Affairs @weatherheadcenter.bsky.social · 2d
In his new book, @svenbeckert.bsky.social traces capitalism’s millennium‑long, global rise—showing how states, coercion, and empire shaped it. He urges readers to see beyond its supposed inevitability and imagine alternative futures. https://loom.ly/t63zrOo
Book cover for 'Capitalism' along with publisher blurb set against duotone yellow/gold background.

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Sven Beckert @svenbeckert.bsky.social · 2d
Today is a big day for me: After years of work in dusty archives around the world and unending hours on the computer, Capitalism: A Global History is out. And the book just received the best possible birthday gift:It became one of the NYT's 100 notable books of 2025.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/b...
100 Notable Books of 2025
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Sven Beckert @svenbeckert.bsky.social · 2d
Thank you, Mack--you have added so much to this project!

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Hamilton Cain @hamiltoncain.bsky.social · 3d
I had the pleasure and privilege of reviewing @svenbeckert.bsky.social's landmark "Capitalism: A Global History" for @bostonglobe.com. Out tomorrow from @penguinpress.bsky.social. Thanks to @katekilla.bsky.social for the opportunity. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/24/a...
Is everything you ever learned about capitalism wrong? - The Boston Globe
While scholars have illuminated bits and pieces of this immense narrative, Beckert’s massive volume brings it together with impeccable authority and perspicacity.
www.bostonglobe.com

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Sven Beckert @svenbeckert.bsky.social · 3d
Thank you @hamiltoncain.bsky.social for this beautiful review!
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/24/a...
Is everything you ever learned about capitalism wrong? - The Boston Globe
While scholars have illuminated bits and pieces of this immense narrative, Beckert’s massive volume brings it together with impeccable authority and perspicacity.
www.bostonglobe.com

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Jan Eijking @janeijking.com · 3d
@svenbeckert.bsky.social’s new global history of capitalism — looks great👇 www.penguin.co.uk/books/295668...
Capitalism
No other phenomenon has shaped human history as decisively as capitalism. It structures how we live and work, how we think about ourselves and others, how we organise our politics. Sven Beckert situat...
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Brown History Department @brownhist.bsky.social · 3d
Next week: 12/3 at 12PM — Join the @brown.edu community for "Capitalism: A Global History" with author and Laird Bell Professor of History at @harvard.edu, @svenbeckert.bsky.social. Co-sponsored by the Department of History and the Rhodes Center. Learn more: bit.ly/4o8A6Il

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Sven Beckert @svenbeckert.bsky.social · 4d
If you are in Cambridge on December 2, join me at this Harvard Bookstore event on Capitalism: A Global History with the great @profmsinha.bsky.social .
www.harvard.com/event/sven-b...
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Sven Beckert @svenbeckert.bsky.social · 4d
Wonderful news that the @NextBigIdeaClub
team has selected Capitalism: A Global History as a monthly must-read!
nextbigideaclub.com/magazine/100...
The 1,000-Year Story That Explains Your Life Today
Author Sven Beckert shares 5 key insights from his new book, Capitalism: A Global History.
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Sven Beckert @svenbeckert.bsky.social · 4d
My take on how to think about current economic polices from the perspective of capitalism's history.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Where Will ‘America First’ Lead Us? The Answer From History: Nowhere Good
Trump’s brand of economic nationalism echoes policies that led to two world wars and the rise of authoritarian regimes across the globe.
www.bloomberg.com

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 6d
An interview with a historian who set out to weave a textile of the type that would have been sold to plantations for use by enslaved people, using period equipment.

www.publicbooks.org/cloth-and-co...
Cloth and Complicity: Seth Rockman on Plantations, Textiles, and the Art of Weaving - Public Books
“But I had found a set of instructions in the archives of one of New England's leading manufacturers of low-end woollen cloth for enslaved wearers.”
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