- HIST280 Special Topics: Early Modern European Expansion
- Course Description
- The course studies the European empires launched after 1492 – Spain, Portugal, Netherlands, and England. Themes include the development of early modern colonialism, the shift in international economic and political balance, and the spread of new forms of global business and domination from the West, to change the rest of the world.
- Academic Information
- Credits: 3
- Schedule & Fee
- Dates: Jun 1 - Jul 15
Class #: 1756
Course Fee: $960
Lab Fee: $0
Total Course Fee: $960 - Instructor
- Matteo Casini
matteo.casini@umb.edu - Book Information
- David S. Landes, The wealth and poverty of nations: why some are so rich and some so poor, New York: W.W. Norton, 1998.
- David Ringrose, Expansion and Global Interaction, 1200-1700, New York: Addison Wesley Longman, 2001.
- Wimba Requirement
- UMB online courses use Wimba classroom (a live discussion tool) at least twice during the semester. Information about Horizon Wimba can be found at www.dlvpc.umb.edu/wimbasupport.htm. Your course instructor will inform you about dates and times of course meetings in Wimba Classroom.
