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DESCRIPTION:Join us for this exciting lecture by Dr. Brian Owensby\, Profes
 sor of History and Director of the Center for Global Inquiry and Innovatio
 n\, entitled “Rethinking the Global Origins of Modern Economy: Gain and 
 Reciprocity in Imperial Paraguay\, 1537-1820.” The talk will take place 
 on Friday November 19th at 3pm in WJWH 427. \n\n \n\nIn the centuries befo
 re Europeans crossed the Atlantic\, social and material relations among th
 e indigenous Guaraní people of present-day Paraguay were based on recipro
 cal gift-giving. But the Spanish and Portuguese newcomers who arrived in t
 he sixteenth century seemed interested in the Guaraní only to advance the
 ir own interests\, either through material exchange or by getting the Guar
 aní to serve them. This book tells the story of how Europeans felt empowe
 red to pursue individual gain in the New World\, and how the Guaraní peop
 le confronted this challenge to their very way of being. Although neither 
 Guaraní nor Europeans were positioned to grasp the larger meaning of the 
 moment\, their meeting was part of a global sea change in human relations 
 and the nature of economic exchange. \n\n \n\nBrian P. Owensby uses the ce
 nturies-long encounter between Europeans and the indigenous people of Sout
 h America to reframe the notion of economic gain as a historical developme
 nt rather than a matter of human nature. Owensby argues that gain—the pu
 rsuit of individual\, material self-interest—must be understood as a glo
 bal development that transformed the lives of Europeans and non-Europeans\
 , wherever these two encountered each other in the great European expansio
 n spanning the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries.
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LOCATION:(WJWH) Willard J. Walker Hall\, 427
SUMMARY:LALS and ECON Co-sponsor a Guest Lecture on Early Modern Origins of
  Global Economy
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