HIST 4550 - Britain and the World since 1700

3 Credit Hours

Prerequisites: None.
Corequisites: None.
Pre/Corequisites: None.
Requirements: None.

Description
Exploration of the interconnected histories of the British isles, the British empire, and the wider world since the eighteenth century; rise of British economic, political, and cultural power on a world scale; politics of class, gender, race, and nation in metropole, colonies, and diasporas; vicissitudes of global hegemony and imperial rivalry; decline, decolonization, and globalization. Global Scholars course.