History 269 - Vast Early America
VAST EARLY AMERICA
Fall
2020
01
4.00
Jordan Taylor
MW 09:20-10:35
Smith College
10267-F20
REMOTE
jtaylor@smith.edu
Early North America was a vast space, defined by a range of peoples and experiences. Focusing
particularly on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century North America—settler colonialism, enslavement,
and revolution—this course will examine the ways that Native peoples, peoples of African descent, and
European colonizers came into contact, exchanged with one another, and often violently collided, a
process that informed and shaped the American Revolution. Enrollment limited to 40. (E)
particularly on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century North America—settler colonialism, enslavement,
and revolution—this course will examine the ways that Native peoples, peoples of African descent, and
European colonizers came into contact, exchanged with one another, and often violently collided, a
process that informed and shaped the American Revolution. Enrollment limited to 40. (E)