Mar 28, 2024  
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HIS 283 - When the World Becomes Global: Early Modern Empire, Expansion, and Exchange

4 credits (Fall or Spring)
This course will explore how and why the world became integrated, interdependent, and ‘global’ through 1)processes of colonization and expansion; 2)the emergence of modern capitalist instruments and markets; 3)intensified voluntary and forced migration; and 4)intellectual, cultural, scientific, and biological exchange. We will engage with foundational and cutting-edge scholarship that has redefined the field of world history by de-centering the role of Europe and distinguishing the heterogeneous imperialism of the early modern era (practiced by Islamic and Asian empires, as well as European ones) from the Western hegemony of the nineteenth through the twentieth centuries.

Prerequisite: HIS 100  or second-year standing.
Instructor: Chou