HIST 635: Problems in European History

HIST 635-B01: Early Modern Atlantic World
(Summer 2015)

07:20 PM to 10:00 PM MW

Music Theater Building 1004

Section Information for Summer 2015

Beginning in the fifteenth century, an era of aggressive European commercial and military expansion brought Europe, Africa, and eventually the Americas into contact in unprecedented ways. The resulting exchanges of goods, people, microbes, plants, animals, practices, institutions, and ideas created a “new world” for everyone involved. This class will explore the dimensions of this new Atlantic World and the ways in which historians seek to conceptualize and write its history. We will focus on topics including: slavery, the slave trade, and the African diaspora; the ideologies and practices of empire; the role of religion in conquest, resistance, and identity formation; the experiences and strategies of native peoples; and the age of revolutions that reshaped the Atlantic World in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Throughout, we will also consider the strengths and limitations of the Atlantic World itself as a framework. This course fulfills the U.S. “origins to 1861” requirement OR the Europe “Europe to 1789” requirement.

Course Information from the University Catalog

Credits: 3

Investigates selected problems. Readings, discussions, development of bibliographies. Primary sources used where possible. Notes: May be repeated for credit when topic is different. May be repeated within the term.
Specialized Designation: Topic Varies
Registration Restrictions:

Enrollment limited to students with a class of Advanced to Candidacy, Graduate, Junior Plus, Non-Degree or Senior Plus.

Enrollment is limited to Graduate, Non-Degree or Undergraduate level students.

Students in a Non-Degree Undergraduate degree may not enroll.

Schedule Type: Lec/Sem #1, Lec/Sem #2, Lec/Sem #3, Lec/Sem #4, Lec/Sem #5, Lec/Sem #6, Lec/Sem #7, Lec/Sem #8, Lec/Sem #9, Lecture, Sem/Lec #10, Sem/Lec #11, Sem/Lec #12, Sem/Lec #13, Sem/Lec #14, Sem/Lec #15, Sem/Lec #16, Sem/Lec #17, Sem/Lec #18
Grading:
This course is graded on the Graduate Regular scale.

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