HIST 1080 - EMPIRES AND THE ENVIRONMENT IN WORLD HISTORY

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This upper level seminar examines how global commodity trades in natural resources have shaped the world. We will consider how the pursuit of natural wealth has led people to alter the world around them, and what the consequences of those alterations have been for natural and human communities. We will consider places and practices as wide-ranging as silver production in colonial south America, sugar in the 18th Century Caribbean, opium in 19th Century China, and petroleum in the modern-day Middle East. We will examine global themes such as imperialism, colonialism, capitalism, and the spread of epidemic diseases.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: DSAS Cross-Cult. Awareness General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Global Issues General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Historical Analysis General Ed. Requirement, MCSI - Sustainability Related, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req.

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