HIST 6130

Entangled Histories of the Americas and the Atlantic

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2014-2015.

In this seminar we will read and analyze some of the most recent approaches to the transnational (or transimperial) connections that characterized the lives of Atlantic dwellers. In assessing these entangled histories we will identify and question the sources of entanglement (where did the entanglement originate?), the geographic reach of the entanglement (was it Atlantic or pan-American in scope?), and the historiographical consequences of privileging certain types of entanglement (what does a historiographical map of the Atlantic tell us about the entangled nature of the histories of the Atlantic and the Americas? Is the map reflecting historical realities or the geographical spread of historians' fields of expertise?). The assigned readings will help us tackle these questions and to discuss key themes in transnational history like the spread of information across political boundaries, the transnational impacts of revolutionary movements, the participation of subalterns in transnational communication networks, and the emergence and evolution of cosmopolitanism.

When Offered Spring.

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