Peter A. Coclanis is Albert R. Newsome Professor of History and Associate Provost for International Affairs at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is author of numerous works in U.S. and international economic history, including The Shadow of a Dream: Economic Life and Death in the South Carolina Low Country, 1670-1920 (1989); with David L. Carlton, The South, the Nation, and the World: Perspectives on Southern Economic Development (2003); and Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Globalization in Southeast Asia over la Longue Durée (2006).

Lecture topics:

• Slavery and the Southern Economy: Myths and Realities
• Agriculture and American Economic Development
• How the Economies of the North and South Came to Differ
• The Globalization of Agriculture: A Cautionary Note from the Rice Trade
• Globalization in Historical Perspective

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