HIST 851 Seminar: North Atlantic World
The emergence of an Atlantic world in the early modern period connected Europeans, Africans, and Native Americans in new dynamics of trade, warfare, migration, labor, and cultural exchange. Common readings will focus on a variety of contemporary sources and are designed to facilitate a wide range of research projects. Alongside the imaginative literature by which Europeans sought to make sense of this emerging Atlantic world, we will explore state papers about colonial policy; travel narratives about Ireland, the Levant, and Africa as well as North America; and documents that illuminate the changing visions and experiences of native peoples, immigrant Africans, and colonial settlers.