University of West Georgia
Department of History
History 4413/5413 The Atlantic World
Fall 2010 Course Website
Dr. Colleen A. Vasconcellos
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Course Syllabus
Theoretical Frameworks Paper Guidelines: Due Thursday, Aug 26
Segu Paper Guidelines: Due Tuesday, September 28
Additional Course Readings
David Armitage, “Three Concepts of Atlantic History”
Alison Games, "What is Atlantic History?"
“Origins of the Atlantic World”
Selections from Dangerous Memories: Aug 19 Readings, Aug 26 Readings
Thomas Morton, Description of the Indians in New England (1637)
A Dutch Minister Describes the Iroquois (1644)
Aztec Accounts of the Conquest of Mexico
Hernan Cortés: Second Letter to Charles V
Neal Salisbury, “The Indians ' Old World: Native Americans & the Coming of Europeans”
W Rodney, “Africa’s contribution to the economy and beliefs of early capitalist Europe”
Adam Smith, Of Colonies, from The Wealth of Nations, 1776.
Adam Smith, The Cost of Empire, from The Wealth of Nations, 1776.
Ira Berlin, Many Thousands Gone
Olaudah Equiano: Selection 1, Selection 2, Selection 3, Selection 4
Venture Smith: Selection 1
Ottobah Cugoano: Selection 1, Selection 2
W. Rodney,"The European Slave Trade as a Basic Factor in African Underdevelopment"
Hilary Beckles, “Crop Over Fetes and Festivals in Caribbean Slavery”
Marie Jenkins Schwartz, “Family Life in the Slave Quarters”
Sept 21: Selections from Slavery, Freedom, and the Law in the Atlantic World
David Barry Gaspar, “The Antigua Slave Conspiracy of 1736"
Kenneth E. Marshall, “Powerful and Righteous"
Edward Rossiter “The Abolition of Slavery in the Western Hemisphere”
Trevor Bernard, “Inheritance and Independence”
Mary Niall Mitchell, “A Good and Delicious Country"
Monica Kiefer, “Early American Childhood in the Middle Atlantic Area”
Holly Brewer, Children, Law, and the Anglo-American Revolution in Authority
James H. Sweet, “Parallel Belief Systems in Kongo”
James H. Sweet, “African Divination in the Diaspora”
Annette Laing, “’Heathens and Infidels?’ African Christianization and Anglicanism”
Michael Gomez, “Muslims in Early America”
Brief selection from Creolization in the Americas
Alison Games, “Adaptation and Survival”
Bernard Moitt, “In the Shadow of the Plantation”
J. Leitch Wright Jr., “Andrew Ranson: Seventeenth Century Pirate?”
The English Bill of Rights (1689)
Declaration of the Rights of Man (1789)
Lois G. Schwoerer, “Locke, Lockean Ideas, and the Glorious Revolution”
John K. Thornton, “What Were the Africans in St. Domingue Fighting For?”
Peter A. Coclanis, “Atlantic World or Atlantic/World?”