The Making of the Atlantic World

Catalog description

(same as CNST_DEM 8041 ). Commerce, colonization, enslavement, and warfare connected western Europe, West Africa, and the Americas into an Atlantic world from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century. This course introduces students to several key themes in the scholarship of the Atlantic world: contact and imperial conquest, migration, slavery, servitude, and race, and the interaction of law and society. We will focus on the British Atlantic, and also engage with other framings, including the Iberian and African Atlantics. Graded on A-F basis only. Credit Hour s : 3