This course explores Europe’s role in global networks of commercial, cultural, and biological exchange between 1450 and 1800. Topics include continental and overseas empire-building, imperial rivalries and wars, the rise of global capitalism, the slave trade, hardening concepts of racial difference, as well as the impact of non-Europeans within Europe.

Antirequisite(s): History 2103, History 2403E, History 2450F/G, History 2460F/G.

Extra Information: 2 lecture and 1 tutorial hour.