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GUIDE TO COURSES IN BUSINESS HISTORY VOLUME 2 Africa, East Asia, Europe, Latin America & Caribbean, South & Southeast Asia Walter A. Friedman & Geoffrey Jones, Editors Guide to Courses in Business History Volume 2 ‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗ Africa, East Asia, Europe, Latin America & Caribbean, South and Southeast Asia Walter A. Friedman & Geoffrey Jones, Editors © President and Fellows of Harvard College Table of Contents I. AFRICA General 1. Austin, Gareth, The Graduate Institute Geneva: 1. ―The Spread of Industrialization in Asia, Africa and Latin America‖ 2. ―African Economic Development in Historical Perspective‖ 3. ―Capitalism and African History‖ South Africa 2. Fourie, Johan, Stellenbosch University: Economic History 771 II. EAST ASIA General 3. Sheehan, Brett George, University of Southern California: HIST 266g, ―Business and East Asian Culture, 1800-present‖ 4. van der Eng, Pierre, Australian National University: BUSI2023: ―Dynamics of Asian Business‖ China 5. Köll, Elisabeth, Harvard Business School: HSTY 1976, ―Visible and Invisible Hands in China: State and Business since 1800‖ 6. Lairson, Thomas, Rollins College: SHA 315, ―Chinese Business and Economic Development‖ 7. Schenk, Catherine, University of Glasgow: 1. ―The Business Environment in China‖ 2. ―China in the International Economy‖ Japan 8. Yongue, Julia, Hosei University: Country Report: ―Business History in Japan‖ 9. Choi, Eugene K., Ritsumeikan University: ―Business History of Technology Management‖ 10. Kawabe, Nobuo, Waseda University: ―Comparative Business History: Japan and the United States‖ 11. Yongue, Julia, Hosei University: ―Japanese Capitalism and Entrepreneurship‖ III. EUROPE General 12. Beckert, Sven, Harvard University: HIST 1257, ―History of European Capitalism‖ France 13. Briot, Eugénie, University Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée: ―History of the Luxury Business in France‖ Germany 14. Lubinski, Christina, Copenhagen Business School; Menniken, Marvin, Free University of Berlin; Küntzel, Sabine, Humboldt University of Berlin: Country Report: ―Business History in Germany: A Selection of Courses and Lecturers at German Universities‖ 15. Stokes, Ray, University of Glasgow: ―German Big Business in the Twentieth Century‖ Italy 16. Amatori, Franco & Edoardo Borruso, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi: ―L'impresa italiana nel XX secolo‖ [Italian Enterprise in the 20th Century] Netherlands 17. Wubs, Ben, F. de Goey & J. Schenk, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam: CH2055: ―Business History‖ Spain 18. Puig, Nuria, Universidad Complutense Madrid: Country Report: ―In the Shadow of Economic History: Business History in Spain‖ 19. Miranda Encarnacion, Jose Antonio & Pablo Díaz, Universitat d'Alacant: ―Factores De Competitividad En El Largo Plazo‖ [Factors in Long-Term Competitiveness] United Kingdom 20. Batiz-Lazo, Bernardo, Bangor Business School: ASB-3117: ―Britain at Work‖ 21. Cirenza, Peter, London School of Economics: EH240: ―Business and Economic Performance since 1945: Britain in International Context‖ IV. LATIN AMERICA & CARIBBEAN General 22. Lluch, Andrea, Universidad de San Andrés: ―Entrepreneurship and Capitalism in Latin America‖ Argentina 23. Barbero, Maria Inés & Andrea Lluch, Universidad de San Andrés: ―Seminario De Historia De Empresas‖ [Seminar in Business History] 24. Barbero, Maria Inés, Universidad de San Andrés: 1. ―Casos de Empresas Argentinas: Contextos y Strategias en el Siglo XX‖[Argentine Business Cases: Contexts and Strategies in the 20th Century] 2. Seminario: ―La Historia de Empresas en la Argentina: Marcos Conceptuales y Líneas de Investigación‖ [Seminar: The History of Business in Argentina: Conceptual Frameworks and Lines of Research] 3. ―La Empresa como Organización en Perspectiva Histórica: Ascenso y Crisis del Paradigma Chandleriano‖ [The Company as an Organization in Historical Perspective: The Rise and Crisis of the Chandlerian Paradigm] Caribbean islands 25. Monteith, Kathleen, The University of the West Indies, Mona: HIST3023, ―Banking in the Commonwealth Caribbean since the 19th Century‖ Colombia 26. Dávila, Carlos, Universidad de los Andes: 1. MBAE 4111, ―Empresariado en Colombia‖ [Entrepreneurship and Management in Colombia] 2. ―Entrepreneurship and Innovation‖ 27. Dávila, Carlos, Luis F. Molina & Xavier Durán, Universidad de los Andes: ―Historia del Desarrollo Empresarial Colombiano‖ [Colombian Business History] Venezuela 28. Cáceres, Alejandro E., Universidad Católica Andrés Bello: ―Venezuelan Business History: Enterprise and State‖ V. SOUTH & SOUTHEAST ASIA General 29. Roy, Tirthankar, London School of Economics: EH307: ―The Economic History of South Asia 1600-2010‖ India 30. Sreekumar, M.G. & Aparajith Ramnath [class mentors: Prof. Debashis Chatterjee & Prof. Dwijendra Tripathi], Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode: ―Evolution of Indian Business: Linking the Past to the Future‖ 31. Valiani, Arafaat, University of Oregon: ―Firms in the Indian Subcontinent and in Global Perspective‖ Thailand 32. Pananond, Pavida, Thammasat Business School: Country Report: ―Business History Courses in Thailand: A Case of Neglect‖ SYLLABI I. AFRICA General 1.1. Austin, Gareth The Graduate Institute Geneva; Genève, SWITZERLAND The Spread of Industrialization in Asia, Africa, and Latin America International History Academic year 2012 - 2013 The Spread of Industrialization in Asia, Africa and Latin America HP6 - Spring - Course - 6 ECTS Wednesdays 14:15-16:00 Room CV 204 PROFESSOR ASSISTANT Gareth Austin Kars Aznavour [email protected] [email protected] +41 22 908 62 18 +41 22 908 58 35 Reception hours: Tuesdays 14:30-16:00 Reception hours: Wednesdays 16:00-17:00 (CV324) (CV328) Course Description The spread of industrialization has transformed the world, and continues to do so. This course examines the uneven but dramatic process of industrialization with borrowed (and adapted) technology, from late nineteenth century Japan to contemporary China and India. Drawing also on the experiences of Latin America, Africa and the East Asian 'Tigers', we consider the arguments about the respective roles of the state, domestic and export markets, and large firms in 'late' industrialization; domestic and foreign sources of capital, natural resources and enterprise; the extent to which industrialization in the 'Third World' has been labour rather than 'capital'-intensive, as it was in the West; the recruitment, training and payment of workers, and their collective actions. Structure: The introductory meeting (which will include an introductory mini-lecture) will be followed by three lectures (weeks 2-4) and then nine seminars (weeks 5-13) led by student paper-givers and discussants, before the concluding meeting. There is room for two student papers in each of the nine seminar weeks, implying a maximum of eighteen students on the course. In content, the course will balance comparative studies of themes with more detailed examination of individual regions of the world. What is asked of students: 1. To participate in the course as a whole: doing the essential reading for each week‘s topic (including other students‘ draft papers, when applicable), and coming prepared to question and intervene. 2. Providing written and oral comments on other students‘ draft papers, to help the authors improve them. 3. Researching, writing, presenting, defending and improving your own paper. Evaluation will be based on: 1. Class preparation and participation (20%). 2. Comment on two fellow students‘ papers (20%). 3. Presentation and defence of your own draft paper (10%). 4. Final version of your paper, which should be 4-6000 words (50%). You will receive detailed written comments from the teacher on your draft paper, and brief ones on your commentaries and on the final version of the paper. Readings: Are intended to be accessible to those without an economics background. Students are asked to read and reflect before each seminar. Everyone should please read the ‗Essential‘ items, which total about 70 pages per week. If you are discussant in a particular week, or have time to explore the topic further, please also use the ‗Further‘ readings. For your paper, you will need even more readings; please come and discuss these, and your topic and the formulation of your question, in my reception hours. TOPICS OF THE LECTURES (AND ASSOCIATED DISCUSSIONS) 1. INTRODUCTION: ISSUES AND PERSPECTIVES A.Organising meeting: introduction to the course, to what is expected of students, including as paper-givers and discussants. B.Introductory mini-lecture: issues and perspectives. An outline of the spread of industrialization; key debates and theoretical approaches, including the currently influential rational-choice institutionalism. Introductory reading A.S. Bénétrix, K. O‘Rourke & J.G. Williamson, ‗The spread of manufacturing to the periphery, 1870-2007: Eight stylized facts‘, NBER Working Paper 18221 (2012). 2. HOW IT BEGAN: THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION AND THE GREAT DIVERGENCE This week‘s lecture and associated discussion will be devoted to the beginning of industrialization, a subject on which there has been important new research. The British industrial revolution is now widely seen, following Pomeranz, as the marking the beginning, or at least the crucial stage, in the West‘s economic advance compared to China, after many centuries in which the most economically developed parts of Europe were probably at a similar level, or even behind, their counterparts in Asia. What does this reassessment of the industrial revolution imply