Course Details
Country:
Malta
Institution:
University of Malta
Course Title:
Global history (c.1492 - c.1870)
Course Number:
Course Description:
The idea of this study-unit, with its focus on the period from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, is to alert students to early modern Europeans' growing sense of awareness of ‘new’ lands. Today, we are living in an age where we are constantly reminded of the global dimensions of our lives. In effect, people from across the globe have been interacting together for much longer than our present-centric assumptions would have us believe. The period from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries witnessed the so-called 'Age of explorations', when European conquerors, traders and missionaries ventured far and wide creating new links, opportunities, challenges and problems. The study-unit seeks to account for the expansion of European territorial empires, first in the New World, later in Asia and Africa. It also looks at strategies of resistance and adaptation by non-European peoples in relation to the Europeans.
Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
HIST L387
Course URL:
https://www.um.edu.mt/courses/studyunit/HST2029
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