Field Seminar in Early Modern European History (430-2-20)

Instructors

Lydia Barnett
847/491-7421
Harris Hall - Room 305

Meeting Info

Harris Hall room 101: Wed 2:00PM - 5:00PM

Overview of class

This seminar is designed to acquaint graduate students with classic and recent scholarship in early modern European history from roughly 1500 and 1800. The course is part of the essential preparation for the field examination in European history and also warmly welcomes the perspectives of students from other fields and disciplines. Major topics will include Europe's place in the Mediterranean and Atlantic Worlds, locality and community, colonialism, migration, slavery, the Renaissance, the Reformations, environmental transformations, the Scientific Revolution, the Enlightenment, and the origins of the decolonial Atlantic revolutions.

Registration Requirements

Graduate students only.

Learning Objectives

Familiarity with the major themes and topics of early modern European history; revisiting this history through the lens of the global turn in early modern studies; Talking across disciplines in early modern studies; Assessing new and classic scholarship in the field; Reading, writing, and speaking about scholarship with rigor and generosity

Enrollment Requirements

Enrollment Requirements: REASON: Pre-registration is not allowed for this class. Please try again during regular registration. Prerequisite: MA or PhD History student