Department of History

HIGR 200
HISTORY AND THEORY:
THE EARLY MODER ERA IN W ORLD HISTORY

This course will begin with a couple of books that suggest theoretical
approaches to W orld History (and to History in General). W e will then work
through three major works that tackle very large parts of the world – The
African Atlantic, the Indian Ocean, and Southeast Asia. The rest of the
course consists of a variety of books on smaller topics. In each case we
are interested in the content, but also in the author’s underlying
assumptions and methodology.

Alternative readings and additions to the list are open to negotiation.

Unit One: Theory (?)

BOOKLIST
The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past (Paperback)
by John Lewis Gaddis
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# ISBN-10: 0195171578
# ISBN-13: 978-0195171570

Logics of History: Social Theory and Social Transformation

by William H. Sewell Jr.
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# Publisher: University Of Chicago Press (August 1, 2005)
# ISBN-10: 0226749185
# ISBN-13: 978-0226749181

Unit 2: Big Pictures

The Indian Ocean
by Michael Pearson
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# Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (November 1, 2007)
# ISBN-10: 0415445388
# ISBN-13: 978-0415445382
Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800
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# Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 2 edition (April 28, 1998)
# ISBN-10: 0521627249
# ISBN-13: 978-0521627245

Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce, 1450-1680: Volume One: The Lands below the
Winds
by Anthony Reid List Price: $24.00
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# Publisher: Yale University Press (September 10, 1990)
# ISBN-10: 0300047509
# ISBN-13: 978-0300047509

Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce, 1450-1680: Volume 2, Expansion and Crisis by
Anthony Reid
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# Publisher: Yale University Press (September 27, 1995)
# ISBN-10: 0300065167
# ISBN-13: 978-0300065169

Unit 3: Interpersonal (dis?-)equilibria

The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-
1815
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# ISBN-10: 0521424607
# ISBN-13: 978-0521424608

White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India

by William Dalrymple
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# Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics) (April 27, 2004)
# ISBN-10: 014200412X
# ISBN-13: 978-0142004128

Journey to the East: The Jesuit Mission to China, 1579-1724

by Liam Matthew Brockey
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# Publisher: Belknap Press (September 15, 2008)
# ISBN-10: 0674030362
# ISBN-13: 978-0674030367

Unit 4: Environmental Issues

Technology, Disease, and Colonial Conquests, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries: Essays

Reappraising the Guns and Germs Theories
by George Raudzens (Editor)
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# ISBN-10: 0391042068
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Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900

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# Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 2 edition (January 12, 2004)
# ISBN-10: 0521546184
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