MO5054 Themes and Debates in Early Modern History 2

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Module description

This module introduces students to a variety of key debates in early modern history through studying different scholars' approaches to the period. Considering political, social, and cultural aspects of the era, students will evaluate studies informed by social science techniques and changing historiographical approaches. Encompassing Western Christendom and the emerging 'Atlantic world' from the mid fifteenth to mid eighteenth centuries, the module provides a broad based thorough grounding in the major historiographical and historical controversies of the era. Participants will review questions of agricultural, industrial, scientific, and military change; absolutism, power relationships, and intellectual authority; and issues of identity and identities forged through awareness of gender, race, national, and global relationships and connections.