2017-2018 Academic Catalog 
    
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HIST 226 - Comparative Colonialism


Seeks to examine the ways in which Spanish, Dutch and English societies evolved in the New World from 1492 to 1824. Topics include the motives and backgrounds of settlers, encounters with natives, syncretism, the search for crops and precious metals, contacts with the mother countries, the contributions of Africans, and the revolutions that made an end to the mainland empires.

Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered periodically