HIST 116B. Decolonizing the Renaissance

Starting with the debate unleashed in Spain by the New World conquests of 1492, this course explores how Renaissance writers framed the prolem that continues to shape how international law treats questions of war, invasion, freedom, property, and occupation. At the heart of the course is the questions of how a more global and comparative approach to the intellectual history of the Renaissance can inform a more critically productive relationship to this whole body of thought.

Concentrations: Domination and Resistance, Method/Theory
Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Social sciences.
2 credits.
Eligible for Concentrations: Domination and Resistance, Method/Theory
Fall 2024. Azfar.
Department website: http://swarthmore.edu/history

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