The course examines main topics of world economic history, including early state formation, historical development of capitalism, industrial revolution, colonialism and late development. The material will provide you with the examples of good scholarship in economic history. At the end of the course, you will have a good grasp of the major turning points in the historical evolution of capitalist world economy as well as ‘economic history’ debates around the crucial aspects of this evolution, including the role of gender and family relations, the political-economic institutions and unequal relations/interactions among regions of the world (aka colonialism and imperialism) . You will also be familiar with various methodologies employed in economic history scholarship.