The history of Brazil interweaves stories of cannibalism, slavery, commodity booms, and the creation of an Atlantic World. Beginningwith European-Indigenous encounters, we explore the Portuguese colony that became an American monarchy in the tropics, ending withslave abolition and Republicanism.
This course addresses the development of colonial empires across Africa and explores the interconnected histories of Africa and Europe from the French invasion of Algeria in 1830 to the period of decolonization in the1960s.
Relations between Brazil, the Caribbean and Western Africa are studied from circa 1500 to the late 19th century, with an emphasis on the nature of the European Empires in Western Africa, Brazil, and the Caribbean, the impact of colonial rule and neo-colonialism, and the varied responses of indigenous societies to both developments.
This course examines the history of Latin America from the Spanish and Portuguese conquests to the present.Course credit exclusions: AP/HIST 2720 6.00 (prior to Fall 2012), GL/HIST 2200 6.00. PRIOR TO FALL 2009: Course credit exclusions: AS/HIST 3720 6.00 (prior to Fall/Winter 2000-2001), GL/HIST 2200 6.00.