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Prerequisite: HISTORY 433A.

[Graduate students completing a two-quarter research seminar must enroll in 435A in Winter and 435B in Spring.] This seminar explores global travel, knowledge, curiosity, experience, and understanding, ca. 1500-1800. The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were a period of global realignments, an age of empires, missionaries, embassies, and trading companies. This seminar takes students around the world, following global travelers, merchants, missionaries, and mapmakers. Students will work extensively with rare books, manuscripts, maps and other artifacts, especially in the Rumsey Map Center to design an exhibit. Urbano Monti's 1587 world map and Francesco Carletti's accidental circumnavigation of the world, 1594-1603, will guide our global voyage, contextualized by sources, artifacts, and histories from many other parts of the world.

Pre-requisite: HISTORY 435A in Winter. Graduate students completing a two-quarter research seminar must enroll in 435A in Winter and 435B in Spring.

Colloquium on witchcraft, magic, and demonology in early modern Europe. Readings will cover the history of the European witch hunts, demonology, and the magical practices and beliefs of Europeans between 1400 and 1800. Assignments will include a book review, historiographical presentation, and a final paper proposing a research topic. Graduate students may take the course as the first half of a research seminar by enrolling in HISTORY 435C in Autumn and 435D in Winter.

Second half of the graduate research seminar History 435C (Autumn) and 435D (Winter). Enrollment limited to graduate students who completed HISTORY 435C in Autumn.

Second half of Graduate Research Seminar sequence. Prerequisite: HISTORY 440A.

This course, extending over two quarters, is intended for PhD students who want to conduct original research in areas relating to the history of science, early modern to modern, and write an article- or chapter-length paper (~45 pages). The course will meet regularly during the Winter quarter as students are conceiving and launching their research projects, and then occasionally during the Spring quarter to discuss their progress toward completion.

[Pre-requisite: 441A.] This course, extending over two quarters, is intended for PhD students who want to conduct original research in areas relating to the history of science, early modern to modern, and write an article- or chapter-length paper (~45 pages). The course will meet regularly during the Winter quarter as students are conceiving and launching their research projects, and then occasionally during the Spring quarter to discuss their progress toward completion.

Explores the global circulation of plants, peoples, disease, medicines, technologies, and knowledge. Considers primarily Africans, Amerindians, and Europeans in the eighteenth-century Atlantic World and focuses on their exchanges in the Caribbean, in particular within the French and British empires. We also take examples from other knowledge traditions, where relevant. Readings treat science and medicine in relation to voyaging, the natural history of plants, environmental exchange, racism, and slavery in colonial contexts. Colonial sciences and medicines were important militarily and strategically for positioning emerging nation states in global struggles for land and resources. Upper-level undergrads must apply for 243C; please fill in this short form: https://forms.gle/XpUXwfT6ULiwC8P19 Graduate students taking the course should enroll in 343C.