HIS 155 Comparative Borders and Borderlands in World History
This course will use a comparative, global lens to examine the significance of borders, borderlands, and frontiers in the history of human societies from the ancient world to the modern day. Regions and periods of study include ancient Rome, medieval Europe, Ming China, the Ottoman Empire, Safavid Iran, colonial Africa and the Middle East, and revolutionary Latin America, among others. In all these contexts, the course will examine the role of frontiers and borderlands in creating both real and imagined divisions—or areas of coexistence, contact, and exchange—between communities, cultures, religions, identities, and political affiliations. Meets only one: either GE 5A or GE 5C.
Cross Listed Courses
GLP 155
Distribution
HIS