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Globalization and Empire

Course
2011-2012

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