Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: THE LUSO-ATLANTIC WORLD

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: Graduate seminar traces the rise of Brazil in the south Atlantic of the 16th-19th centuries. Topics include: discoveries and encounters, go-betweens and colonization, slavery and the slave trade, the rise of sugar coffee plantations, patterns of family life, the development of frontiers, religion, and the abolition of slavery.