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This course surveys the increasing interaction between communities, as the barrier of distance succumbed to both curiosity and new transport technologies.
277 years, 9 months
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. It explores Western Europe and the United States’ rise to world dominance, as well as the great divergence in material, political, and technological development between Western Europe and East Asia post–1750, and its impact on the rest of the world. It examines a series of evolving relationships, including human beings and their physical environment; religious and political systems; and sub-groups within communities, sorted by race, class, and gender. It introduces historical and other interpretive methodologies using both primary and secondary source materials.
Course Currilcum
- Introduction II. Space: “Reading” Maps Unlimited
- The Big Picture I: From Afro-Eurasia to the World, ca. 1200 to 1700 Unlimited
- Contact and Conflict in East Asia Unlimited
- Contact and Conflict in East Asia—Discussion Unlimited
- Contact and Conflict in the Americas Unlimited
- Contact and Conflict in the Americas—Discussion Unlimited
- The Big Picture II: Global Trade, Empire, and Industrialization, 1600–1870 Unlimited
- Empire, Ideology, and Architecture: Eighteenth-Century Global Examples Unlimited
- The Atlantic Revolutions in Global Context Unlimited
- The Big Picture III: Imperialism, Nation-States, Colonialism, 1815-1914 & Beyond Unlimited
