HIST 060. Nature, Art, and the Science of Power in Mughal India and Renaissance Europe

What was the role that art and nature played in the “science of power” - both the theory and the practice of power - in India and Europe ca 1500 - 1700? Love, sex, fear, music, birds, gardens, palaces, paintings, maps, queens, pearls, languages, theologies and laboratories will provide comparative frameworks from which to examine how art and nature shaped the theory and practice of power in India and Europe between 1500 and 1700.
Concentrations: Capitalism, Empires and Nations
Prerequisite: Course is not open to first year students. Previous course in the department or instructor permission.
Social sciences.
1 credit.
Eligible for ASIA, GLBL-Paired. Concentrations: Empires and Nations, Migration, Diaspora, and Space
Fall 2025. Azfar.
Catalog chapter: History
Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/history

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