BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ical@bgc.bard.edu//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.16.12// METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Bard Graduate Center X-WR-CALDESC: X-WR-RELCALID:f X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event_533@www.bgc.bard.edu DTSTAMP:20260817T023210Z DESCRIPTION:Steven Pincus will be coming to speak at the Seminar in\nCultur al History on Wednesday\, November 14\, 2012. His talk is entitled\n“Span ish American Trade\, Patriot Politics and the Shaping of the British\nEmpi re.”\n\nSteven Pincus is Professor of History and International\nand Area Studies at Yale University. He has previously taught at the\nUniversity o f Chicago and Harvard University. Pincus received his B.A.\nfrom Dartmout h College and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University. \nHis primary re search interests include 17th and 18th century British political\nhistory\ , the emergence of capitalism\, the history of economic thought\, the\nori gins of the British Empire\, the early modern Atlantic world\, early moder n\nnationalism\, comparative revolutions\, and political thought. Pincus’ s\npublications on these subjects include: 1688: The First Modern Revoluti on (New\nHaven: Yale University Press\, 2009)\; Politics of the Public Sph ere in\nEarly Modern England\, co-ed.\, Peter Lake (Manchester: Manchester University\nPress\, 2007)\; England's Glorious Revolution\, 1688-1689: A Brief History\nwith Documents (Boston: Bedford Press\, 2005)\; A Nation Tr ansformed:\nEngland after the Restoration\, co-ed.\, Alan Houston (Cambrid ge: Cambridge\nUniversity Press\, 2001)\; and Protestantism and Patriotism : Ideologies and\nthe Making of English Foreign Policy\, 1650-1668 (London : Cambridge\nUniversity Press\, 1996). He is currently working on a book- length\npublication entitled\, The Origins of the British Empire ca. 1650- 1784 (New\nHaven: Yale University Press\, forthcoming).Britons at the tur n of the\neighteenth century were obsessed with objects from the East. Th ey wore\nIndian calicoes. They drank tea. They displayed Chinese\nporcel ain. Yet few in South Asia or China were interested in anything the\nBrit ish Isles had to offer. How did Britons pay for their cultural\naddiction s? The answer was with bullion being mined in Spanish\nAmerica. In his t alk\, Pincus will reinterpret the War of the Spanish\nSuccession (1701-171 3) as a struggle within Britain over competing ideas of how\nto solve this political economic conundrum. The Treaty of Utrecht ending\nthe war repr esented the temporary triumph of a Tory vision of empire as\ncolonial conq uest against a Whig version that focused on economic penetration\nof Spani sh America. \n\nLight refreshments will be served at 5:45 pm. The\npresent ation will begin at 6:00 pm.RSVP is required. PLEASE NOTE that our Lecture Hall can only accommodate\na limited number of people\, so please come ea rly if you would like to have a\nseat in the main room. We also have over flow seating available\; all\nregistrants who arrive late will be seated i n the overflow area. DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20121114T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20121114T200000 SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: Spanish American Trade\, Patriot Politics and the Shaping of the British Empire END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR