HIST 271 - “Wonder-full” Narrations of the New World

Semester Offered: Second Semester
Credits (Range): 3 Hours
Attribute: 3 SS

This course explores the ways in which Europeans and Native peoples explained their interaction with one another during the first centuries of interaction in the New World. Using letters, stories, and captivity accounts, we will study the content of their narratives as well as the ideological assumptions, cultural imperatives, and material circumstances that shaped them. We will develop a nuanced understanding of how two unequally situated groups of people came to measure one another. Enrollment Limit: 30.
Instructor: R. Chopra