History 271 - American West Pacific World

Spring
2017
01
4.00
Christine DeLucia
MW 01:15PM-02:30PM
Mount Holyoke College
98818
Skinner Hall 216
cdelucia@mtholyoke.edu
98818,98506
The vast region of North America between the Mississippi River and Pacific Ocean has been a site of many migrations, conflicts, political transformations, and environmental changes. This course examines dynamic histories of Native American tribes, Euro-American "explorers" and colonists, cowboys and miners, Asian immigrant laborers, and mariners, all of whom helped create interior and oceanic worlds. It focuses on natural and human changes in specific locales, and also explores how public histories at these places shape the present and future.
meets history department pre-1750 requirement
Permission is required for interchange registration during the add/drop period only.