Directed research or writing for qualified students.

Directed research or writing for qualified students.

This seminar examines the Western Hemisphere from the late 18th century to the present through the lenses of trade, land settlement, and state making. Students will read works on a number of Latin American countries, the United States, and Canada. All of the assigned readings are in English, but there will be readings available in French, Portuguese, and Spanish for those with proficiency in these languages.

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Directed reading, research or writing for qualified students.

Directed reading, research or writing for qualified students.

Directed reading, research or writing for qualified students.

European colonial and imperial ventures in Africa, Asia and the Americas played a central role in the shaping of the modern world and the economic, political, and cultural geographies that characterize it.

The foundations of modern science and scientific method were laid in the Scientific Revolution of the late sixteenth and seventeenth century. This period would be seen as a golden age by the philosophes of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment and the founders of the history of science in the twentieth century. Yet the period from 1550 to 1650 also saw widespread interest in occult powers and natural magic, and it was the height of the "witch craze" in Europe, a period in which about fifty thousand Europeans, most of them women, were executed for the crime of diabolical witchcraft.