Readings and Dates
Dates of Meetings:
Wednesdays, 17:00 to 19:00 CET at the Centre for History, Sciences Po Paris, 1 Saint Thomas d'Aquin, Seminar Room H101
We will meet on average once per month. Refreshments will be served.
Inaugural meeting:
November 6, 2024, discussing Timothy Mitchell's Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil (Verso: London; New York, 2011).
Second Meeting:
December 11th, 2024
Future Meetings:
Spring 2025
Date TBD
Ida M. Tarbell, The History of the Standard Oil Company (New York: Macmillan, 1904)
Suggested Future Readings:
Fredrik Albritton Jonsson and Carl Wennerlind, Scarcity: A History from the Origins of Capitalism to the Climate Crisis (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2023).
Donnella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, Jorgen Randers, William W. Behrens III, Club of Rome, The Limits to Growth: A Report for THE CLUB OF ROME'S Project on the Predicament of Mankind (New York: 1972).
Eric Williams, Capitalism & Slavery (1944).
David Yergin, The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power with a New Epilogue (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008 [1990]).