The modern world has repeatedly been understood through a narrative of disenchantment, in which science supposedly displaces superstition, reason supposedly replaces faith, and the expansion of capitalism is thought to dissolve all enchanted forms of social life. Yet the historical development of capitalist modernity has been accompanied by a remarkable proliferation of beliefs in ghosts, spirits, occult sciences, witchcraft, zombies, seances, and other forms of supernatural beings and practices. Rather than treating these phenomena as residues of a disappearing premodern feudal world, this course asks what their persistence might tell us about our historical present itself. It approaches categories such as magic and the supernatural as historically produced categories whose boundaries were redrawn alongside the emergence of modern distinctions between science and religion. Taking the approach of global history, which traces flows and convergences between different parts of the world through ideas and practices, this course examines the changing relationship between capitalism and enchanted social worlds from roughly the 1600s to the present. We will read historians who have examined phenomena such as the classification of folklore, particularly from the late nineteenth century onward, the emergence of Spiritualism and occult science, ideas of the devil in plantation and mining societies, the zombie as a figure of coerced labor, and the relationship between witchcraft and new forms of accumulation. Throughout the course, ghosts and magic will be treated as more than curiosities inherited from a supposedly irrational past. We will read them as historical evidence in the archive for understanding the changing forms of anxiety and tension produced through the contradictions and upheavals of global capitalism.