Admission requirements
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Description
The concept of First Global Age (1415-1776) has been broadly accepted as the first moment in history when one may speak of globalization as a historical process. This literature seminar will explore the relationship between concepts of globalization and the movement of European Expansion and the formation of Empires since the first steps of European expansion overseas until the decolonisation process many colonies underwent during the 2oth century.
Course objectives
Dominate a range of concepts linked to discussions about globalization in history
Be informed and take part in the on-going historical debate on this subject
Be able to establish a connection between European expansion, formation of colonies and creation of empires and the on-going development of perceptions of historical globalization
Timetable
See course schedule.
Mode of instruction
Literature seminar
Assessment method
weekly short essays
oral presentation
book review
Blackboard
No
Reading list
Week 2: Anthony Pagden, The Lords of All the World: Ideologies of Empire in Spain, Britain and France, c. 1500-c. 1800, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995.
Week 3: John J. McCusker & Kenneth Morgan (eds.), The Early Modern Atlantic Economy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Week 4: Kerry Ward, Networks of empire: forced migration in the Dutch East India Company, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Week 5: D. Held a.o., Global transformations. Politics, economics and culture, Cambridge: Polity, 1999.
Week 6: A. G. Hopkins (ed.), Globalization in world history, London: Pimlico, 2002.
Week 7: Joseph Stiglitz, Making globalization work, New York: Norton, 2006.
Registration
Via uSis.
Contact information
E-mail: Dr. J.T. Lindblad
Remarks
If only native speakers of Dutch participate, the course can be taught in Dutch.