HIST 1144 - THE PORTUGUESE EMPIRE AND EARLY MODERN GLOBALALIZATION

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course introduces students to the study of the Portuguese overseas empire in the early modern period by adopting a non-conventional perspective. In addition to offering a chronological and geographical framework of Portuguese expansion, the course will focus on the political, social and cultural interactions that emerged from the permanent contact of Europeans with non-European societies in Africa, Asia and the Americas. The course considers Portuguese overseas expansion within the broader context of the early modern world and investigates notions of globalization.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis

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