Thu, 04/07/2016 - 12:30pm 101 LeConte Hall Please join us for a talk by Ernesto Bassi of Cornell University entitled “Much More than the Half Has Never Been Told: The Rise of Capitalism from New Granada’s Shores.” His research interests include inter-imperial rivalry and collaboration in the Caribbean, the history of late colonial and early national Latin American countries (especially Colombia and its Caribbean region), indigenous-European encounters in the Caribbean Basin, cosmopolitan Indians, the development of plantation societies in the Caribbean, the flow of ideas, people, and commodities across the Atlantic Ocean, and the role of oceans in world history. This presentation is part of the Capitalism & Identity Lecture/Seminar series.
