Episode 10: Global, Global, Gone

I was totally burned out on Friday and Saturday. I spent a lot of time on the couch, actively not reading.

This next week we're switching gears, moving from a medium-scale discussion of Victorian domestic life, to look at the creation of the 19th century global economic system. In this podcast, I briefly describe the three important factors of this new system: factories, finance and firms.

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Music by Jonathan Lear. Art by Duncan Barton.

I read these books:

The Cambridge History of Capitalism: Volume 1, The Rise of Capitalism: From Ancient Origins to 1848 and The Cambridge History of Capitalism: Volume 2, The Spread of Capitalism: From 1848 to the Present

The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain: Volume 1, Industrialisation, 1700-1870 and The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain: Volume 2, Growth and Decline, 1870 to the Present

Richard Grossman, Unsettled Account: The Evolution of Banking in the Industrialized World since 1800 (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)

Eric Hobsbawm, Making of the Modern World

Thomas McCraw, ed, Creating Modern Capitalism: How Entrepreneurs, Companies, and Countries Triumphed in Three Industrial Revolutions