HIST 802 - The North Atlantic World

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Trinity College

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This seminar presents a comprehensive view of the North Atlantic region in the period from about 1600 to the outbreak of the American Revolution. This course will explore three broad themes: identity, social structures, and conflict. Students will first meet the peoples of the larger North Atlantic society, giving special attention to the interaction of indigenous peoples; Spanish, Dutch, French, and English colonizers; and enslaved Africans. Readings and discussion will examine the transnational character of trade, culture, religion, migration, communication, law, and governance - in spite of national policies that discouraged such interaction. But, most strikingly, the North Atlantic region was a competitive and, even, dangerous environment. Wars of conquest, piracy and buccaneering, repression and exploitation, and internecine colonial warfare were dominant features of its history in the early modern period. 1.00 units, Lecture

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1.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.Trincoll.edu

Phone Number:

(860) 297-2000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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