Mediterranean worlds, c. 1450-1950

Elective Course

This course explores the role of the Mediterranean Sea as a barrier and a highway between Europe, Africa, and the Middle East from the Black Death and the Renaissance to modern times. We will examine the extensive environmental, economic, social, political, and cultural religious change of this period. Topics include religious conflict and cooperation, imperialism (including the Ottoman, Habsburg, French and British Empires, among others), trade, travel and migration, nationalism and other forms of identity, modernization and reform, disease, and technological change.

Non-permissible combination:  HIST2227