HIST 2720 - [The Atlantic World from Conquest to Revolution]

(crosslisted)
(also AMST 2720) # (HA-AS)

Spring. 4 credits.

Next offered 2013–2014.

M. B. Norton and R. Weil.

After Europeans first crossed the Atlantic in the late fifteenth century, the ocean became a vast highway linking Spain, France, Britain and the Netherlands to the Americas and Africa. In this course we will examine the lives of the men and women who inhabited this new world from the time of Columbus to the 18th century revolutions in Haiti and North America. Topics will include the destruction and reconfiguration of indigenous societies; slavery and other forms of servitude; the resistance, rebellion and accommodation of indigenous groups and slaves; religion; and the construction of gender, race and ethnicity. Emphasis will be on reading and analyzing primary sources.