Also called Environmental History, this course will explore the role of non-human actors in world history. Plants, animals, and micro-organisms have played a huge and often undocumented role in the course of many major historical events. Along with an analysis of the role of non-human organisms in history, this course will also utilize biological concepts such as micro and macro parasitism to understand human interactions in a new and novel fashion. Some of the topics to be studied in this course are: the spread of the Bubonic Plague, syphilis, the Columbian Exchange, the Old World’s biological conquest of the New World and Oceania, and newer developments including the oil crisis of the 1970s and the effects of global warming on various species around the globe.
Stuart Hilwig
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