We often under-count the global significance of the Mexican revolution, despite being part of NAFTA. Much of this lecture is about why we should not.

This lecture examines the expansion of the world economy to include West Africa and the Americas.

A "world economy" has long existed, connecting the economies of Europe, Asian and East Africa since 800 BCE.

The populist right has recently turned against economic globalization, investor rights and their advocates, especially the World Economic Forum. This introductory lecture sets students up for a course on the history of economic globalization and the movements that have arisen to oppose it.

In this final episode, we talk about the two schools of thought in American imperialism and their twenty-first century prospects.

In this episode we wrap up the course narrative by looking at the 2009 Honduran coup and its consequences.

In this episode we examine the rise of structural adjustment programs and their first tests in Argentina

In this episode, we discuss the introduction of neoliberalism and its original testing not in the UK or BC but in Chile under Augusto Pinochet. 

We examine the founding of the Alliance for Progress, its spawning of the School of the Americas and the strange case of the Peruvian dictatorship of the 1970s.

In our second episode on the Brazilian dictatorship, we look at the "diversity politics" of the authoritarian junta.