Hst010
History 010
Global History from 1500
History 010, Spring 2013
Monday/Wednesday/Friday, 12:50–1:40
Lafayette L108
Professor: Andy Buchanan
Email: Andrew.Buchanan@uvm.edu
Office: Wheeler 303 Office hours: Mondays and Wednesdays 2:00-4:00, and by appointment Teaching Assistant: Matt Preedom
Email: mpreedom@uvm.edu
Office Hours: Mondays and Wednesdays 11:30-12:30 and by appointment
Office hours held in Wheeler 101
Objectives, Assigned Reading, and the “Blackboard” Website
This course will offer an overview of the main economic, social, military, political, and cultural developments that shaped the course of human history from the new era of global interconnectedness that began with the expansion of European trade and conquest in the fifteenth century, to the present day. In particular, we’ll be looking at the successive rise of systems of imperial domination from the Spanish empire in the Americas, to the British Empire, and the global hegemony of the United States. How did peoples of Africa, Asia, and the Americas seek to resist this domination, and how successful were they? What part have social revolutions—from the British, American, and French in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to the Russian, Chinese, and Cuban in the twentieth, played in world history? Can we identify patterns in these events?
The course will include both lectures and classroom discussions. Classes will be based on assigned readings from the textbook, The Earth and Its Peoples and from “primary” sources—that’s to say contemporary documents, letters, cultural products, and other material—collected in The Human Record. Other material will also be made available on the Blackboard academic website during the semester.
The following books are required reading. Please be sure to get the correct edition as content varies from edition to edition. * Richard Bulliet, Pamela Kyle Crossley, Daniel Headrick, Steven Hirsch, Lyman Johnson, and David
Global History from 1500
History 010, Spring 2013
Monday/Wednesday/Friday, 12:50–1:40
Lafayette L108
Professor: Andy Buchanan
Email: Andrew.Buchanan@uvm.edu
Office: Wheeler 303 Office hours: Mondays and Wednesdays 2:00-4:00, and by appointment Teaching Assistant: Matt Preedom
Email: mpreedom@uvm.edu
Office Hours: Mondays and Wednesdays 11:30-12:30 and by appointment
Office hours held in Wheeler 101
Objectives, Assigned Reading, and the “Blackboard” Website
This course will offer an overview of the main economic, social, military, political, and cultural developments that shaped the course of human history from the new era of global interconnectedness that began with the expansion of European trade and conquest in the fifteenth century, to the present day. In particular, we’ll be looking at the successive rise of systems of imperial domination from the Spanish empire in the Americas, to the British Empire, and the global hegemony of the United States. How did peoples of Africa, Asia, and the Americas seek to resist this domination, and how successful were they? What part have social revolutions—from the British, American, and French in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to the Russian, Chinese, and Cuban in the twentieth, played in world history? Can we identify patterns in these events?
The course will include both lectures and classroom discussions. Classes will be based on assigned readings from the textbook, The Earth and Its Peoples and from “primary” sources—that’s to say contemporary documents, letters, cultural products, and other material—collected in The Human Record. Other material will also be made available on the Blackboard academic website during the semester.
The following books are required reading. Please be sure to get the correct edition as content varies from edition to edition. * Richard Bulliet, Pamela Kyle Crossley, Daniel Headrick, Steven Hirsch, Lyman Johnson, and David