S02E12 Beshara Doumani explains what strategies had to be considered in planning for

property devolution after death through the waqf in seventeenth- to nineteenth-century Ottoman

Syria—and the wider significance of this story for understanding the role of the family in Middle

Eastern history. Interviewed by Birgit Tremml-Werner and Martin Dusinberre; produced by Dario Willi.

S02E11 Joel Kaye shows how medieval scholars engaged with the so-called ‘commercial

revolution’ of Europe’s late Middle Ages in order to conceptualize the ‘market’

in new ways and thereby develop a new model of equilibrium in economics, politics and science.

Interviewed by Martin Dusinberre and Birgit Tremml-Werner; produced by Dario Willi.

S02E10 Nadin Hée takes the example of tuna fishing as a departure point both for

considering Japan’s engagement with transpacific markets and also as a way for understanding the

significance of the ‘pelagic’ empire for the wider history of resource extraction.

Interviewed by Birgit Tremml-Werner and Martin Dusinberre; produced by Dario Willi.

S02E09 Antoine Acker examines the transformation of Brazilian society, and of debates about

national wealth and Brazil’s place in the industrialized world, following the discovery of oil in

the 1930s. Interviewed by Martin Dusinberre and Birgit Tremml-Werner; produced by Dario Willi.

S02E08 Iris Borowy presciently argues that health is the key prerequisite for global wealth

creation—although, paradoxically, historical data show that during periods of economic expansion,

people’s health tends to suffer. Interviewed by Martin Dusinberre and Birgit Tremml-Werner;

produced by Dario Willi.

S02E07 Eva Brugger reconstructs the importance of the beaver fur trade to the

seventeenth-century Dutch colony of New Amsterdam as a case study for how early modern empires projected

a vision of future wealth for potential settlers and investors. Interviewed by Birgit Tremml-Werner and

Martin Dusinberre; produced by Dario Willi.

S02E06 Giorgio Riello examines how the early modern cotton industry offers an entry point

into debates over the ‘great divergence’ in wealth between Europe and Asia, including the

need for scholars to rethink meanings of ‘luxury’ in global history. Interviewed by Birgit

Tremml-Werner and Martin Dusinberre; produced by Dario Willi.

S02E05 Regina Grafe argues that historians fundamentally misunderstand the early modern

Spanish empire when they suggest that it was characterised by the extraction and transfer of silver from

Latin America to the European metropole. Interviewed by Birgit Tremml-Werner and Martin Dusinberre;

produced by Dario Willi.

S02E04 Jeremy Davies explains why an understanding of the Anthropocene should be central to

an understanding of wealth inequalities in history—and why alternative terms, such as the

Capitalocene, do not advance the debate. Interviewed by Martin Dusinberre and Birgit Tremml-Werner;

produced by Dario Willi.

S02E03 Corinna Unger offers a history of development over the twentieth century, considering

the ways in which development assistance tries to address problems that emerged from colonialism and

from wealth inequalities more generally. Interviewed by Martin Dusinberre and Birgit Tremml-Werner;

produced by Dario Willi.