College Bulletin 2022-2023 
    
    Mar 29, 2024  
College Bulletin 2022-2023 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

HIST 023. Enlightenment and Empire, 1776-1803


The course will hone into the tensions that surround the project of liberal empire by focusing on their articulation and contestation in Europe, America, and India during the revolutionary era of the late eighteenth century. Case studies of specific topics like antislavery boycotts and the impeachment trials of colonial governors will be used to delve into the role of Enlightenment and empire in the invention of race, sex, science, knowledge, liberty, capitalism, and ideologies of humanitarianism. 
Concentration: Domination and Resistance
Prerequisite: Department prereq of previous history course; no first-years without permission of the instructor.
Social sciences.
Writing course.
1 credit.
Catalog chapter: History  
Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/history


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