About this Event
The history of World War I is often described as a story of German aggression, but as Professor Scott Nelson will discuss, the current Ukrainian war is no anomaly and has its roots in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Even World War I can be understood as a story of an aggressive Russian empire bent on controlling the Black Sea. These same forces are at work today. Professor Nelson is the author of Oceans of Grain, How American Wheat Remade The World, published in 2022. His book describes how a brilliant renegade communist, born in what is now Belarus, used fragile grain transport pathways in the early days of World War I to hold off the allies at Gallipoli and to help start the Russian Revolution.
Scott Reynolds Nelson, Ph.D., is the Georgia Athletic Association Professor of the Humanities at the University of Georgia, Athens. He is a Guggenheim fellow and the author of five books, including Steel Drivin’ Man (2007) about the life of Black folklore legend John Henry, which won four national awards including the Merle Curti Prize for best book on U.S. social history. His book on the history of financial crashes, A Nation of Deadbeats: An Uncommon History of America’s financial Disasters (2012), was named a best business book of the year by Business Week.
Professor Nelson has been a research fellow at Harvard U., the Ecole des Hautes etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris, and Chicago’s Newberry Library. He received his B.A. and Ph.D. in History from the U. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Denver Country Club, 1700 East 1st Avenue, Denver, United States
USD 55.00