Mar 29, 2024  
Course Catalog 2014-2015 
    
Course Catalog 2014-2015 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Add to Portfolio (opens a new window)

AAST 124 - The Caribbean and the Wider World: 1600-1789


Semester Offered: First Semester, Second Module
Half Course
Credits: 2 Credits
Attribute: 2SS, CD

This course examines the history of the Caribbean from the 17th century to the closing decades of the eighteenth. It begins with reflections on the importance of the Caribbean to the world that had been developing since the end of the 15th century and marks the major changes in the geo-political, social and economic development of that process. It emphasizes in particular the emergence of an Atlantic world in which the Caribbean, (and the wider Caribbean) was one of the three focal points that lay behind the monumental transformations taking place in Europe, Africa and the Americas. Attention will be given to changing perspectives in global thinking, to the vigorous development of a slave plantation system, to the impact of Caribbean exploitation on Europe, especially Great Britain, Holland and France, and ultimately the development of serious contradictions within colonialism and slavery that lead to the beginnings of the decline of both.
Enrollment Limit: 15
Instructor: J. Millette



Add to Portfolio (opens a new window)