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Global History Lab, Summer Course
Global History Lab: A History of the World since 1300
June 22-August 8: Mon/Wed 9:00-10:30 New York (3:00-4:30 Vienna) plus 4 hours/week of central, asynchronous lectures
4 Credits
Note: This course was organized in separate sections this summer at OSUN partner institutions: AQB, AUCA, Bard-Annandale, BCB, and EHU. Please contact your home institution.
This course takes you on a voyage into the past. Like many of the explorers you will meet along the way, you will explore the history of the modern world since Genghis Khan’s armies conquered China and Baghdad in the thirteenth century. You will learn about the past; you will also learn about how to think about the past—to consider models and concepts for explaining the cycles of world integration and disintegration to the present, like the rise and fall of empire and the role of free trade, religious conversion and global governance. Do earlier modes of globalization help us to understand our own age? What forces matter? How can we understand new global divides? The dynamics of combinations and divisions are many: environmental, spiritual, economic, ideological, military, and political. The aim of this course is to understand the forces that pull the parts together as well as those that drive them apart. We have some driving questions, starting with what makes our globalization so different from globalizations past? What explains European global expansion in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries? How do we explain the staggering wealth of China in the centuries up to 1750, as well as China’s recent ascent? Where did the United States come from, and where is it headed? What are the significances and legacies of empire in the world? What is the past and future of Islam? How have world wars and revolutions shaped the international system over time? How does integration redefine the relationship between humans and nature over the centuries, especially in the use of resources and the effects on world climate? What role have diseases and pandemics played in bringing the world together or driving it apart? Tackling these questions means learning about the past in an integrative way, a way that connects parts of the world. It also means developing analytical tools to make sense of complex patterns. This is a blended learning class where a significant amount of work will be done in an asynchronous manner.
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