The Menace of Progress: Colonialism and the Making of the Modern World

Undergraduate

encourages students to think critically about ideas of progress, enlightenment, and civilization by examining the emergence of the modern world and its relationship to colonialism. It explores the rise of the West by examining global history since the fifteenth century. Course topics include the transatlantic slave trade, enclosure, the destruction of Indian cotton manufacturing, and consumer culture. All sections of this course follow International Studies guidelines available at www.mun.ca/hss/IS .