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Nov 23, 2024
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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog
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HIS 319 - Empire, Slavery and Borderlands: Transnational Latin America
This course considers the transnational history of Latin America and the variety of forms of global interaction and exchange that have shaped the region. Although transnational or global approaches to understanding the past are certainly not new, they represent a growing and very influential area of interest for historians. We will explore ways of challenging the explanatory supremacy of the nation-state, various global and transnational methods and theories, and several case studies which employ a transnational method. Though we will not move chronologically, readings will cover subjects from the Early modern period to the present. We will discuss key themes currently dominating transnational scholarship, including slavery, empire and colonialism, and borderlands. Our goal will be to survey the strengths and weaknesses of transnational history, compare its many applications, and identify the analytical possibilities offered by the field.
1 semester 3 credits.
Fall
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