Peter A. Coclanis
Peter A. Coclanis is the Albert R. Newsome Distinguished Professor of History and the director of the Global Research Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the 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).
Lectures
- Agriculture and American Economic Development
- Capitalism and Slavery
- Entrepreneurs and Entrepreneurship in American History
- Globalization in Historical Perspective
- How the Economies of the North and South Came to Differ
- Labor and Capital in Nineteenth-Century America: The Standard-of-Living Controversy Revisited
- Slavery and the Southern Economy: Myths and Realities
- The Globalization of Agriculture: A Cautionary Note from the Rice Trade
- The Postwar Boom in Retrospect