HIST 9024 - Age of the Atlantic

3 cr. Elective

As a field of study, the “Atlantic world” is one of the more influential and in many ways most controversial to emerge in the last two decades. Unlike more established fields, historians understand the Atlantic world more fluidly. Loosely defined, Atlantic world historians attempt to re-conceptualize the early modern period as more transnational and interconnected between North America, South America, Africa, and Europe. In this course, students will analyze the field of Atlantic world history by studying competing theories of Atlantic history through careful readings of important selections from the last twenty years. Additional topics include economic push and pull factors driving colonization, the African slave trade, and religious and cultural interactions taking place on a local and macro scale.