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Early modern global exchange - Prof. Carlo Taviani - a.a. 2022/2023
Scienze politiche - Opzionali
ATTENZIONE: i contenuti di questo corso sono relativi all'anno accademico 2022/2023
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The course’s aims are, firstly, a strong focus on events and historiographical debates on early modern global history, secondly, the development of original research from the participating students.
The course focuses on early modern global exchanges. While the course offers a global approach on several economic and cultural topics, geographically it will mainly focus on the areas of the Mediterranean and the Atlantic.
Class 1: Introduction
Class 2: Written, Visual, and Material Sources
Class 3: European Sources
Class 4: A Critical Approach to Global History
Class 5: Microhistory and Global History
Class 6: Archaeology vs History
Class 7: Economic Institutions
Class 8: Plantation Complex I
Class 9: Plantation Complex II
Class 10: Territorial Powers: European and non-European Views
Class 11: The Role of the Islands
Class 12: Economic Institutional Migration
Class 13: Raw Commodities and Manufactured Products
Class 14: Trade Networks
Class 15: Conclusion
Students can attend the lectures online. Beginning with the fifteenth century it will mainly concentrate on economic and cultural topics until the end of the eighteenth century. Following an introductory section on the course and chronology (classes 1-2), a selected set of classes (3-8) will focus on methodological approaches and historiographical debates, while a third section (classes 9-14) will explore several case studies, mainly along the lines of institutions, commodities, and networks. A class will be devoted to the analysis of a documentary.
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