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
Tutorial
Assessment method
Students will be required to:
Write short-essays weekly
Make an oral presentation
Writing a Book Review
Blackboard
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Reading list
Week 2: A. G. Hopkins (ed.), Globalization in world history, London: Pimlico, 2002.
Week 3: Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra & Erik R. Seeman, The Atlantic in Global History, 1500-2000, NJ, 2007.
Week 4: K. 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: P. Dicken, Global shift: Mapping the changing contours of the world economy, London: Sage, 2007.
Week 7: Joseph Stiglitz, _Making globalization work-, New York: Norton, 2006.
Registration
Via uSis.
Contact information
E-mail: Dr. C.A.P. Antunes