Atlantic World History, Fifteenth to the Nineteenth Century

4 credits · Graduate School

Interdisciplinary readings examining disparate colonizations and the creation of an Atlantic world system. Major themes include the consequences of Atlantic expansion on indigenous societies, the African slave trade, and the rise of Atlantic economics, the circulation of peoples, ideas, and material culture throughout the Atlantic and how imperial competition, political ideologies, and subaltern resistance shaped the Atlantic revolutions. Optional instruction in early modern paleography. May be repeated for credit more than once if there is no duplication in topic. Students may enroll in more than one section of this course each semester. [4]