World History II (since 1500)

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This course surveys the history of the "modern" world, focusing on its accelerating integration over the past five centuries, from the Columbian Exchange and rise of overseas empires in the "early modern" era; through the "dual revolution" of industrialization and democratization in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; through the world wars of the twentieth; to the age of the Anthropocene in the twenty-first.