The course examines the question, whether the modern concept of ‘globalisation’ could be meaningfully applied to describe world history during the Early Modern Era. Starting from a rather broad definition, as has been proposed by Flynn and Giraldez, that globalization is the “sustained interaction between all the world’s heavily populated landmasses … in a manner that deeply and permanently linked them” the course will consider different topics between 16th and 19th centuries: global economic interaction, flows of goods and changing consumption patterns, migration and slavery, religious expansion and proselytization, knowledge and science, political interactions between international law and war.
| Frequency | Weekday | Time | Format / Place | Period | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| weekly | Do | 14-16 | X-E0-203 | 07.10.2019-31.01.2020
not on: 12/26/19 / 1/2/20 |
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