Monday 11 May 2015, 6.30 - 8.00pm, Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Professor Paul Kennedy; Chair: Professor Michael Cox
The rise of the West was by no mean inevitable. But a number of crucial changes from the explosion of sea-faring in the 16th century through the spread of the steam engine to the incredible surge in American industrial productivity in the years before World War I made it both unstoppable and irreversible. Taken together these underlying tectonic shifts – occurring below the surface of what Fernand Braudel has termed ‘the history of events’ - transformed the global system and paved the way for the creation of what was to become the modern world.
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Speaker
Professor Paul Kennedy is the J. Richardson Dilworth Professor of History, Director of International Security Studies at Yale, and Distinguished Fellow of the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy.
Chair
Professor Michael Cox is Director of LSE IDEAS.
Location
Old Theatre, Old Building. LSE. Map.