HIST 361 - EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY

Hours: 5
This course explores the dominant themes and events of American history between 1492 and 1763. Using the lens of comparative colonization, it examines the complexities of cultural contact that occurred between Native Americans, Europeans, and Africans in the early days of North American colonization, the kinds of communities that emerged from these contacts, and the major challenges facing these colonial communities as they matured over the eighteenth century. Throughout, the course focuses attention on the tensions that underlay the colonization of America related to key issues such as land, race relations, economic systems, class structures, and political ideologies.
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HIST 361 - EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY