HIST 442 — The Atlantic World
History · University of Ghana
The course will examine the nature and extent of the encounters and exchanges of people, ideas, goods, cultures, disease, flora and fauna over and across the ocean bordering Europe, Africa and the Americas. The course will emphasize how these encounters and exchanges have helped to shape the world. It will help students to understand the historical underpinnings of the new world order of the modern age through the processes of expansion of economy, political power, culture, population, etc. of western European nations on one hand; and the system of creative and adaptive connections, and interactions among Europeans, Africans and Native Americans along the vast and seemingly endless rim of the Atlantic basin from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century. **HIST 481: Special Paper: Fante States in the 17th Century/ Dutch Documents Relating the Gold Coast and the Slave Coast (Coast of Guinea) 1680 -1740/Politics in Akyem Abuakwa, 1874 – 1930/ Economic History of the Gold Coast, 1874 – 1900. This is a special paper, based on original English and translated Dutch primary source materials dealing with the above themes in the history of the Gold Coast. In any one semester only a select collection of primary source materials dealing with a specific theme would be explored. ** Available ONLY to students taking a MAJOR in History **HIST 482: Special Paper: Fante States in the 18th Century/ Elmina and Its Neighbours, 1836 -1876/Economic and Social Change in Akyem Abuakwa, 1874 – 1930/Economic History of the Gold Coast, 1900 – 1914. This is a special paper, based on original English and translated Dutch primary source materials dealing with the above themes in the history of the Gold Coast. In any one semester only a select collection of primary source materials dealing with a specific theme would be explored. ** Available ONLY to students taking a MAJOR in History
- Credits
- 3
- Level
- Level 400
- Semester
- Semester Two
Other courses on this programme
- HIST 111 — Earliest Civilizations
- HIST 112 — Selected Topics in World History
- HIST 421 — Aspects of Intellectual History from 1500 to the Enlightenment
- HIST 422 — Modern Trends in Intellectual History
- HIST 423 — History of Science and Technology up to the Industrial Revolution.
- HIST 424 — History of Science & Technology since the Industrial Revolution
- HIST 425 — History of Political thought up to St. Augustine
- HIST 426 — History of Political Thought since St. Augustine
- HIST 427 — Colonial Rule and African Response: Partition or Pacification
- HIST 428 — Colonial Rule and African Response: Nationalism and Independence
- HIST 429 — History of Latin America
- HIST 432 — Latin America since the Haitian Revolution
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Start freeCourse details from University of Ghana Volume 2 Handbook for the Bachelor's Degree: Course Descriptions for Programmes in the Humanities (2017).