HIS 542 Approaches Early Modern European History

This course will explore comparative approaches to early modern European history. This course will move chronologically and thematically through the early modern period, and consider its events and developments from a variety of both traditional and more recent analytical perspectives. Topics will include: imperial expansion, cultural encounters, print culture and the expansion of literacy, religious fragmentation and conflicts, family gender and sexualities, the expansion of state power, capitalism, and popular resistance, science, Enlightenment, anthropology and the re-imagining of human difference.

Credits

3