Check these links out for further information on this week's topics!

Use these links as quick references and contextualizing material as well as for ideas about forms of related activism and community work. To really delve, you need to print and read all essays, or go look at books and articles in Further Reading.

Remember that materials on the web MUST be evaluated as critically as any other texts we consider in this course. For brief guidelines on thinking critically about the web, click HERE.

Maps

• Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade database maps
• Frank Map 1: Major Circum-Global Trade Routes, 1400-1800
• Frank Map 2: Atlantic Region, 1400-1800
• Frank Map 3: Afro-West Asian Region, 1400-1800
• Frank Map 4: Indian Ocean Region, 1400-1800
• Frank Map 5: Asian Region, 1400-1800
• Frank Map 6: World Silver Production, Exports and Receipts
  

Karl Polanyi (1886-1964)

• Polanyi Bio
  History of Economic Thought Biography
  http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/polanyi.htm
• Polanyi Bio
  Wikipedia Biography
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Polanyi
• The Karl Polanyi Institute of Political Economy
  Concordia University, Montreal
  http://artsandscience.concordia.ca/polanyi/
• The Karl Polanyi Research Network
  Hosted by the Crisis States Research Centre based at the Development Studies Institute at the London School of Economics
  http://www.crisisstates.com/associated/Polanyi/
• Murray Rothbard critique of Polanyi
  http://www.mises.org/fullstory.aspx?Id=1607

Concert of Europe

• Wikipedia account
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concert_of_Europe
• Prentice-Hall website on Concert of Europe
  http://wps.prenhall.com/hss_king_westernciv_2/0,6774,208775-,00.html
• Recent Policy Review article considering a new "Concert of Asia"
  http://www.policyreview.org/aug01/khoo.html
  

League of Nations

• Wikipedia account
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_Nations
• League of Nations online archives
  http://www.indiana.edu/~league/
• League of Nations timeline
  http://worldatwar.net/timeline/other/league18-46.html

Owenism

• Wikipedia on Robert Owen
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Owen
• PBS show on the rise and fall of socialism, including Owen and Marx, and very useful timeline
  http://www.pbs.org/heavenonearth/leaders_thinkers.html
• excerpts from Owen's "A New View of Society", 1813-16
  http://socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/owen/newview.txt
• Middlesex University Andrew Roberts' overview of Owen, including links to full-text articles by him.
  http://www.mdx.ac.uk/WWW/STUDY/SHE8.htm#Owen

Chartism

• Victorian web account of Chartist movement
  http://www.victorianweb.org/history/hist3.html
• Marie Bloy's essay on Chartism
  http://www.victorianweb.org/history/chartism.html
• Wikipedia on Chartism
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chartism
  

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