HIST 290 - The Early Modern Atlantic World

This course examines the Atlantic system in an attempt to integrate the normally national histories of European, African, and American nation states. Topics in this course include maritime explorations, imperial expansion and colonization, the establishment of an Atlantic economy and the growth of merchant capitalism, European-Native American encounters and relations, slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, piracy, the maturation of Euro-American colonial societies, and the Age of Revolution.

Credits: 5
Grade Mode: Letter
GUR Attributes: ACGM