Struggles that Shaped the Modern World: 1600-1900

3 credits · Undergraduate

European expansion from the 16th century reshaped the global economy, obliging many established societies to confront new challenges. Throughout Asia, the New World and Africa, old conflicts between and within states now had to confront the additional challenge of increasingly powerful European intruders. These encounters, and how historians have understood their struggles, shaped the modern world as diverse groups struggled to pursue their interests through resistance, accommodation, coercion, cooperation and alliance. This course will explore the ways in which select societies navigated these encounters to better understand the intricate patterns of linkage and division that mark our world in modern times. FORMATS: Lecture