Oliver Cussen, The College, The University of Chicago

Oliver Cussen is a Harper-Schmidt Fellow and Collegiate Assistant Professor in the Social Sciences at the University of Chicago. He received his PhD in History from the University of Chicago in 2020. He is an environmental historian of early modern capitalism and empire. His first book manuscript, Colonial Enlightenment and the Limits to Growth, argues that French colonialism in the eighteenth century was a doomed attempt to overcome resource scarcity.

Past Quarters Interdisciplinary Approaches to France and the

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Capital and Critique: The Commercial Imperialism of Old Regime France

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