Advancing Studies · Boston College
This course involves a comprehensive survey of the connection between politics, economics, and internationalism, and the effects of this connection in the development of World History. In particular, the course takes an in-depth look at the beginnings of capitalism in the sixteenth century; at how capitalism affected, and was affected by, the growth of the nation state; and at how capitalism became the dominant economic, social, and, in some cases, the religious belief system for many countries, particularly those in the West. We will also look at how the concept of capitalism has fared agains
