Montesquieu as Dependency Theorist? Capitalism versus Commercial Society

We are glad to announce the first event of the Webinar series in 18th-Century History of Political Economy. In the opening webinar, Professor Paul Cheney will present the paper "Montesquieu as Dependency Theorist? Capitalism versus Commercial Society in the Intellectual History of Political Economy". He will explore Montesquieu not as a World-Systems theorist avant la lettre, but rather alongside this body of writing about the capitalist world economy.

The webinar is open to everyone interested in the topic.
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Professor Paul Cheney is an historian of Europe with a specialization in old regime France and its colonial empire. Before beginning his PhD training in history at Columbia University, he studied political economy at the New School for Social Research. He has taught at Columbia University, the European College of Liberal Arts (Berlin), and the Queen's University of Belfast.

For more details, see https://history.uchicago.edu/directory/paul-cheney.