COURSE SCHEDULE (Subject to Change)
Tues, Jan 20
Intro
Thurs, Jan 22
Foundations
- Bernard Bailyn “The Contours of Atlantic History” in Atlantic History: Concepts and Contours (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 2005), 59-111 + notes.
- Alison Games, “Atlantic History: Definitions, Challenges, and Opportunities,” American Historical Review 111:3 (2006): 741-57.
- Eliga H. Gould, “Entangled Histories, Entangled Worlds: The English-Speaking Atlantic as a Spanish Periphery,” American Historical Review 112:3 (2007): 764-86.
- David Armitage, “The Varieties of Atlantic History,” in Major Problems in Atlantic World History, Alison Games and Adam Rothman, eds., (Houghton Mifflin Co, 2008), 16-22.
Due Thurs, Jan 22: Essay – What is Atlantic World History?
Tues, Jan 27
Encounter - Women, Africans, Conquest, and the Uses of the Descriptions of the Atlantic World
- Jennifer Morgan, “‘Some Could Suckle over Their Shoulder’: Male Travelers, Female Bodies, and the Gendering of Racial Ideology, 1550-1770,” The William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd Series 54:1 (1997): 167-92.
- Michael Householder, “Eden’s Translations: Women and Temptation in Early America,” Huntington Library Quarterly, Vol. 70, No. 1 (March 2007), 11-36.
- April Lee Hatfield, “A ‘very wary people in the bargaining’ or ‘very good merchandise’: English Traders’ Views of Free and Enslaved Africans, 1550-1650,” Slavery and Abolition, Vol. 25, No 3 (2004): 1-18.
Thurs, Jan 29
Exchange and Consumption
- Marcy Norton, “Tasting Empire: Chocolate and the European Internationalization of Mesoamerican Aesthetics,” American Historical Review 111:3 (2006): 660-92.
Linda Wimmer, “‘To Encourage a Trade with the Indians:’ Brazilian Tobacco and Cross-Cultural Relations in the Hudson’s Bay Company Fur Trade, 1690-1750,” Working Paper presented at the 1998 meeting of the Atlantic History Seminar, “Cultural Encounters in Atlantic Societies, 1500-1800.” 1-31.- David Hancock, “Commerce and Conversation in the Eighteenth-century Atlantic: The Invention of Madeira Wine,” The Journal of Interdisciplinary History 29:2 (1998): 197-219.
- Londa Scheibinger, “Agnotology and Exotic Abortifacients: The Cultural Production of Ignorance in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic,” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 149:3 (2005), 316-343.
Tues, Feb 3
Due Tues, Feb 3– Revised Essay on “What is Atlantic World History”
Due - Initial Thoughts on Topic (Due Mon, Feb 2 at 11:59pm)
Individual Meetings (Feb 3-4 to discuss Initial Ideas)
Thurs, Feb 5
Atlantic Africa
- Randy Sparks, The Two Princes of Calabar: An Eighteenth-Century Odyssey (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004): 10-69.
- James Sweet, “Mistaken Identities? Olaudah Equiano, Domingos Alvares, and the Methodological Challenges of Studying the African Diaspora,” American Historical Review 114:2 (2009) 279-306.
Tues, Feb 10
Sailors and Pirates
- Marcus Rediker, “‘Under the Banner of King Death’: The Social World of Anglo-American Pirates, 1716-1726,” The William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd series, 38 (1981): 203-227.
- Emma Christopher, “The Multiracial Crews of Slave Ships,” in Slave Ship Sailors and their Captive Cargoes, 1730-1807 (Cambridge University Press, 2006), 51-90.
- Brian Rouleau, “Seafaring Communities, 1800-1850,” in The Atlantic World, D’Maris Coffman, Adrian Leonard, adn William O’Reilly, eds. (Routledge, 2014), 131-147.
- Andrew Parnaby, “The Many Motivations of Jack Tar,” Labour/La Travail 62 (Fall 2008); 199-208.
Thurs, Feb 12
TOPIC TBD (Atlatnic Slavery, Disease and Healing, Changing Conceptions of Natives/Creoles, etc.)
Tues, Feb 17
- Danielle Terrazas Williams, “Owning Slaves” in The Capital of Free Women: Race, Legitimacy, and Liberty in Colonial Mexico (Yale Univ Press, 2022), 85-118 + notes
- Cécile Fromont, “Dancing for the King of Congo from Early Modern Central Africa to Slavery-Era Brazil,” Colonial Latin American Review 22:2 (2013):184-208.
- Timothy Shannon, “Dressing for Success on the Mohawk Frontier: Hendrick, William Johnson, and the Indian Fashion,” William and Mary Quarteryly 3rd Series, 53 (1996): 13-42.
Thurs, Feb 19
Due: Complete Draft of Project Proposal (for Peer Review)
In-Class Workday
Tues, Feb 24
In-Class Workday
Due Tues, Feb 24: Project Proposal (via Canvas)
Thurs, Feb 26
In-Class Workday
Tues, March 3
Peer Review & In-Class Workday
Due: Complete Draft of Primary Source Analysis #1
Thurs, March 5
In-Class Workday
Due: Revised Final Draft of Primary Source Analysis #1 (via Canvas)
Tues, March 10
In-Class Workday
Due: Tues, March 10 Annotated Bibliography and Historiographical Outline (via Canvas)
Thurs, March 12
In-Class Workday
SPRING BREAK: March 16-20
Tues, March 24
In-Class Workday
Due: Tues, March 24 - Complete Draft of Historiographical Essay
Thurs, March 26
Peer Review & In-Class Workday
Due: Thurs, March 26 - Revised, Final Draft of Historiographical Essay
Tues, March 31
In-Class Workday
Thurs, April 2
In-Class Workday
Due: Thurs, April 2 - Complete Draft of Primary Analysis #2
Tues, April 7
Peer Review & In-Class Workday
Due: Tues, April 7 - Revised, Final Draft of Primary Analysis #2
Thurs, April 9
In-Class Workday
Tues, April 14
In-Class Workday
Thurs, April 16
Peer Reviews
Due:Thurs, April 16 - Complete Draft (2 copies in-class, upload one copy to Canvas)
Tues, April 21
In-Class Workday
DUE: Before individual meetings (Wednesday April 22 @ 11:59pm) - Revision Plan
Thurs, April 23
Individual Meetings to discuss Rough Drafts and Revision Plans (due before meeting) cont.
Tues, April 28
In-Class Workday – Model Presentation by Prof Proctor
Thurs, April 30
Presentations (Please Plan to be able to be present from 10am-12noon this day)
Final Papers Due: Wed, May 6 at 11am (via Canvas)