I: Plague, Fire
II: Philadelphia
IV: Urban Limits
V: Tripping
VI: Reform
VII: Expositions
Transatlantic Traffic:
London, Philadelphia, and the World, 1665-1876
Unit Three
Additional Materials
- Pictorial
Images of
the Transatlantic Slave Trade. This is, by any standards, a fantastic
site, containing maps and the most complete information on Africa, Slave Capture,
Slave Ships, Portraits, Written Accounts, Plantations, and Slave Sales we've found.
- The British Library's extremely good site on Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus
Vasa.
- Britannica's excellent introductory essays on Adam
Smith and the
Scottish Enlightenment, Jean-Jacques
Rousseau and on the
Slave Trade.
- The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy's nicely concise essays on Adam
Smith and the
Scottish Enlightenment, Jean-Jacques
Rousseau and Slavery.
- The main site of the Rousseau
Association, which contains images of Rousseau, his works, samples of
his musical compositions, and other information about him.
- The Oxford
English Dictionary's definitions of sentiment, sensibility, and sentimental,
and a
Dictionary of Sensibility, an excellent site for those interested in the
cult and culture of sensibility.
Regular Readings:
Unit 3: Circulation,
Transport,
and the Commodity
Week 5
Feb 4: Read Adam
Smith, Theory of
Moral Sentiments (selections in photocopy), and William
Wordsworth, "Sonnet
on Seeing Miss Helen Maria Williams Weep at a Tale of Distress."
Feb 6: Read Adam
Smith, The Wealth
of Nations (selections also in photocopy).
Recitation Feb 8: Read the Declaration
of Independence and Jean-Jacques
Rousseau, The Social
Contract (selections in photocopy). You may want to begin reading Olaudah
Equiano's Interesting Narrative for next week as well.
Week 6
Feb 11: Begin Olaudah Equiano's
Interesting Narrative,
pp. 1-144.
Feb 13: Finish Equiano,
pp. 145-236.
Recitation Feb 15: Equiano and Kopytoff. Read Igor
Kopytoff, "The Cultural Biography of Things: Commoditization as Process"
(photocopy).