Welcome to His 4930-02
The Atlantic World

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Course Description
This course examines the contact and connections between peoples living around the Atlantic Ocean between the 15th century and the 19th century. The Atlantic Ocean served as a zone for interaction, a frontier, and also a connector between cultures that were profoundly different, and through emigration and exchange grew to become more similar during this period. We will examine the destruction and reconfiguration of indigenous societies, the creation of new labor markets, the migration of peoples (voluntary and involuntary), the social, political and religious effects of exploration, conquest and settlement, the economic and intellectual impact that the New World had upon the Old, the transmission of ideas and technologies between continents, the rise of revolutionary movements toward the end of the 18th century, and efforts made to end the international slave trade in the early 19th century, among other topics.

Universalis cosmographia secundum Ptholomaei traditionem et Americi Vespucii aliorumque lustrationes (France, 1507). Courtesy of Library of Congress.

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