Global Envir Climate Hist

3 Credits · Level: Graduate

This course is designed for PhD and MAGIC students with no prior experience in environmental history. It will introduce students to the issues, concerns, debates, and methods of environmental history and one of its liveliest component fields, climate history. The course will be global in scope, with attention to multiple geographic regions, and primarily focused on the last 500 years. It will give special attention to the role of empires in environmental changes and the role of environmental conditions and changes in imperial histories.