People and Projects

1951 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 39-40
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Research Center ◽  
University Of Chicago ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
The World ◽  
The University ◽  
Widespread Interest ◽  
Deliberate Effort

The recent widespread interest in problems of economic development, particularly in areas of the world now marked off as "underdeveloped," has emphasized the necessity for further examining the relations between economic and cultural change. The present unorganized body of knowledge dealing with these problems seems to call for a deliberate effort at synthesis in order to arrive at general principles upon which policy and further study can be based. The Research Center in Economic Development and Cultural Change at the University of Chicago was established in an attempt to meet this need.

Report on the Conference on Asian Economic History

1960 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 435-440
Author(s):  
Morris David Morris
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Rockefeller Foundation ◽  
Research Center ◽  
University Of Chicago ◽  
Teaching And Research ◽  
The University

A meeting of scholars to consider problems of teaching and research in Asian economic history was held in Highland Park, Illinois, October 30–31, 1959. It was organized under the auspices of The Research Center in Economic Development and Cultural Change of the University of Chicago, and funds were provided by the Division of Social Sciences of The Rockefeller Foundation. Professor Bert F. Hoselitz chaired the sessions.

The Economic History of India: A Bibliographic Essay

1961 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-207 ◽  
Author(s):  
Morris David Morris ◽  
Burton Stein
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Small Group ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Research Center ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University

In october 1959 a small group of scholars met under the auspices of the University of Chicago's Research Center in Economic Development and Cultural Change to discuss problems of research in Asian economic history. Papers prepared by two participants explored work already done in Indian economic history. It was felt that these two papers might be useful to others, those concerned with Indian economic history and those interested in comparative analysis.

The Journey of Piotr and Kasia Walkowiak

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kai Erikson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
The United States ◽  
University Of Chicago ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
The University ◽  
Migrant Stream

This chapter tells the story of peasants from rural Poland who entered a migrant stream around the turn of the twentieth century that carried them, along with tens of millions of others, across a number of clearly marked national borderlines as well as a number of unmarked cultural ones. The peasants were a couple named Piotr and Kasia Walkowiak, and the words spoken by them as well as the events recalled here are based on the hundreds of letters and diaries gathered in the 1910s by two sociologists from the University of Chicago, W. I. Thomas and Florian Znaniecki. The chapter first describes the world into which Piotr and Kasia were born, focusing on family, village, and land. It then considers their journey, together with millions of other immigrants, and how they changed both the face of Europe and the face of the United States.

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