Imperial and Global History: 1750-1930

(8 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

The purpose of this course is to offer a more distinctively global approach to the world history of this period. What this means in practice is an emphasis upon the significance of mobility and exchange in goods, ideas and people across Eurasia, the Americas and Africa upon supraregional phenomena, including religions, patterns of consumption, environmental stresses and the differential impact of scientific and technical knowledge; and on the reciprocal influences exerted on each other by European, Asian, African and other societies. Asia and Africa may have been influenced by Europe, but the reverse was equally true.