Season 3: Das Seminar. Archivgeschichten_Episodenbilder
Season 3, Episode 1: Das Seminar. Archivegeschichten
Welche Geschichten über das Historische Seminar befinden sich in den Archiven der Stadt Zürich? Viele! Mitbestimmung, Globalgeschichte, Gleichberechtigung, Historismus und Bologna sind nur einige zu erwähnen. Maryam Joseph und Jose Cáceres Mardones stellen das neue Staffel vor.
Season 3, Episode 2: Title
15 May 2020 | Simon Teuscher explores the thematic relevance of ‘wealth’ as a topic of study for historians, focusing in particular on some of the surprising continuities between wealth management in the medieval and modern worlds. Interviewed by Birgit Tremml-Werner and Martin Dusinberre; produced by Dario Willi.
Season 3, Episode 3:
15 May 2020 | Corinna Unger offers a history of development over the twentieth century, considering the ways in which development assistance tries to address problems that emerged from colonialism and from wealth inequalities more generally. Interviewed by Martin Dusinberre and Birgit Tremml-Werner; produced by Dario Willi.
Season 3, Episode 4:
15 May 2020 | Jeremy Davies explains why an understanding of the Anthropocene should be central to an understanding of wealth inequalities in history—and why alternative terms, such as the Capitalocene, do not advance the debate. Interviewed by Martin Dusinberre and Birgit Tremml-Werner; produced by Dario Willi.
Season 3, Episode 5:
15 May 2020 | Regina Grafe argues that historians fundamentally misunderstand the early modern Spanish empire when they suggest that it was characterised by the extraction and transfer of silver from Latin America to the European metropole. Interviewed by Birgit Tremml-Werner and Martin Dusinberre; produced by Dario Willi.
Season 3, Episode 6:
15 May 2020 | Giorgio Riello examines how the early modern cotton industry offers an entry point into debates over the ‘great divergence’ in wealth between Europe and Asia, including the need for scholars to rethink meanings of ‘luxury’ in global history. Interviewed by Birgit Tremml-Werner and Martin Dusinberre; produced by Dario Willi.
Season 3, Episode 7:
15 May 2020 | Eva Brugger reconstructs the importance of the beaver fur trade to the seventeenth-century Dutch colony of New Amsterdam as a case study for how early modern empires projected a vision of future wealth for potential settlers and investors. Interviewed by Birgit Tremml-Werner and Martin Dusinberre; produced by Dario Willi.
Season 3, Episode 8: Reserve
15 May 2020 | Iris Borowy presciently argues that health is the key prerequisite for global wealth creation—although, paradoxically, historical data show that during periods of economic expansion, people’s health tends to suffer. Interviewed by Martin Dusinberre and Birgit Tremml-Werner; produced by Dario Willi.
Season 3, Reserve
15 May 2020 | Antoine Acker examines the transformation of Brazilian society, and of debates about national wealth and Brazil’s place in the industrialized world, following the discovery of oil in the 1930s. Interviewed by Martin Dusinberre and Birgit Tremml-Werner; produced by Dario Willi.

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