History 840: Reinterpreting the Atlantic World Fall 2016: Marcus Filippello, Assistant Professor
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Fall 2016: Marcus Filippello, Assistant Professor In 2005, noted historian of colonial America, Bernard Bailyn, mused about the concept of Atlantic history. He questioned why some scholars refused to recognize it as a legitimate sub-discipline even though the American Historical Association had created a book prize category for publications that explored the integration of Atlantic worlds. Oftentimes framed as a geographical and cultural space, the emergence of literature written by scholars who have examined the Atlantic World from environmental, intellectual, and scientific historical perspectives, among other thematic avenues of exploration, have complicated out understanding of the ways in which the region has changed over time. The intent of this class is to offer graduate students in history and the humanities broadly conceived a sense of debates and scholarly interpretations of the development of the Atlantic World that have emerged in the decade since Bailyn deliberated about its evolution as a subject of historical inquiry. Transatlantic slavery will constitute a prominent organizing theme, but readings will also address the roles various historical actors from around the world played in the making of the Atlantic World. We will also think critically about how scholars have periodized Atlantic World history and explore ways to extend debates into a twentieth-century context. As a result, the class should appeal to students studying African, African-American, European, Native American, Caribbean, and Latin American history who have a wide variety of thematic interests and are engaged in various periods of study. Below is a partial list of books/articles I am considering assigning for the course: A Cultural History of the Atlantic World, 1250-1820 by John Thornton Africans in the Old South: Mapping Exceptional Lives across the Atlantic World by Randy Sparks Atlantic History: Concepts and Contours by Bernard Bailyn Domingos Alvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World by James Sweet When the United States Spoke French: Five Refugees Who Shaped a Nation by Francois Furstenburg The Mortal Sea: Fishing the Atlantic in the Age of Sail by Jeffery Bolster Unfreedom: Slavery and Dependence in Eighteenth-Century Boston by Jared Hardesty “Yaws, Syphilis, Sexuality, and the Circulation of Medical Knowledge in the British Caribbean and the Atlantic World,” by Katherine Paugh Course Expectations: In addition to writing short responses to assigned readings each week, each student will lead one seminar discussion and write a 15 to 20 page historiographical paper that assess the nature of scholarly debates presented in the assigned readings. Should you have questions, please do not hesitate to contact me by email: filippem@uwm.edu Directory: schedule -> syllabi schedule -> Academic Computer Center Lab Operator Standard Operating Procedures Manual schedule -> Schedule For vlsi – asic design Internship 2013 schedule -> Understanding the Programming Process a computer system schedule -> The list of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances, use of which in medical purposes is prohibited a. Narcotic drugs schedule -> Schedule III controlled Substances schedule -> Actors studio fall Semester 2013-2014 syllabi -> Bus mgt 706-001 – managing in a dynamic environment university of Wisconsin-Milwaukee – Spring 2016 syllabi -> Preliminary syllabus Download 6.8 Kb. Share with your friends:
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