HIST 143. Political Economy of the Middle East: Theory & History

This honors seminar will survey existing literature on the political economy of the Middle East. We will read work from various subfields in Middle East history, including labor history, social history, agrarian history, histories of women and gender, histories of colonialism and decolonization, environmental history, and histories of economic thought. In doing so, we will engage both older traditions of historical and social scientific inquiry and more recent, theoretically innovative scholarship that is advancing a renewed interest in the study of political economy and assess the contributions and/or merits of different approaches.
Concentration: Capitalism
Social sciences.
2 credits.
Eligible for GLBL-Paired. Concentration: Capitalism, Method/Theory.
Fall 2023. Shokr.
Catalog chapter: History
Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/history

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