HIST5349: Introduction to Transatlantic History, Fall 2012

1. Office Hours: University Hall 201b; Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, 3pm to 5pm
2. Office Phone: 817-272-2869
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4. Email: garrigus-at-uta-dot-edu, but please use the BlackBoard email when possible.
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This course is designed to introduce students to the broad outlines of transatlantic history and historiography from roughly 1500 to 2010. Readings will include some of the classic texts in associated with these fields, as well as current research and historiographical debates. This is not a pre-requisite for the Department’s 6000-level courses in transatlantic history, but it is designed to help graduate students make the bridge to these more specialized colloquia. At the same time, Introduction to Transatlantic History is a stand-alone class that will be interesting for anyone looking to deepen his or her knowledge of how the histories of Africa, Europe, North America, Latin America and the Caribbean intersect.

1. Students will be able to present and discuss key works in the field of transatlantic history. This will be assessed in class discussions and presentations.
2. Students will be able to describe the major theses, structure and sources of key works in the field of transatlantic history. This will be assessed in five précis and four book reviews.
3. Students will be able to describe transatlantic history, including the major historical events and historiographical perspectives associated with the field. This will be assessed in the final paper, and class participation.

1. Adam, Thomas. Intercultural Transfers and the Making of the Modern World, 1800-2000: Sources and Contexts. Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. 0230243541
2. Bailyn, Bernard. Atlantic History: Concept and Contours. Cambridge Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005. 0674016882
3. Crosby, Alfred W. The Columbian Exchange; Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Pub. Co, 1972. 0837158214
4. Scott, Rebecca J., and Jean M. Hébrard. Freedom Papers: An Atlantic Odyssey in the Age of Emancipation. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2012. 0674047745
5. Sweet, James. Domingos Álvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011. 9780807834497
6. Tyrrell, Ian R. Transnational Nation: United States History in Global Perspective Since 1789. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. 9781403993670
7. Articles and book chapters listed below.

• Morgan, Philip, and Jack P. Greene. “Introduction: The Current State of Atlantic History.” In Atlantic History: A Critical Appraisal, edited by Jack Greene and Philip D. Morgan, 3–33. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.
• Duara, Prasenjit. “Transnationalism and the Challenge to National Histories.” In Rethinking American History in a Global Age, edited by Thomas Bender. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.
• Klein, Herbert S. “The Atlantic Slave Trade to 1650.” In Tropical Babylons: Sugar and the Making of the Atlantic World, 1450-1680, edited by Stuart B. Schwartz, 201–236. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2004.
• Kroes, Rob. “American Empire and Cultural Imperialism: A View from the Receiving End.” Diplomatic History 23, no. 3 (1999): 463–477.
• Livi-Bacci, Massimo. “The Depopulation of Hispanic America After the Conquest.” Population and Development Review 32, no. 2 (June 2006): 199–232.
• Mann, "The Dawn of the Homogenocene," Orion Magazine May/June 2011. www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/6250

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At the end of each term, students enrolled in classes categorized as lecture, seminar, or laboratory shall be directed to complete a Student Feedback Survey (SFS). Instructions on how to access the SFS for this course will be sent directly to each student through MavMail approximately 10 days before the end of the term. Each student’s feedback enters the SFS database anonymously and is aggregated with that of other students enrolled in the course. UT Arlington’s effort to solicit, gather, tabulate, and publish student feedback is required by state law; students are strongly urged to participate. For more information, visit http://www.uta.edu/sfs.

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