Syllabus: HSTY2034

Week 1: Explorations and Encounters in the New World

Lecture 1: Introduction
Lecture 2: The Age of Exploration and the "Columbian Exchange"

            Tutorial:   None

Further Reading: Early Explorations and Encounters

James Axtell, Natives And Newcomers: The Cultural Origins Of North America (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001).

Colin G. Calloway, New Worlds For All: Indians, Europeans, And The Remaking Of Early America (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997).

William Cronon, Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England (New York: Hill & Wang, 1983).

Alfred W. Crosby, Jr., Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900 ( Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1986).

Karen Ordahl Kupperman, Indians and English: Facing Off In Early America (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000).

Richard White, The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, And Republics In The Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991).