Charles M. Russell, Lewis and Clark Meeting the Flatheads in Ross's Hole, September 3, 1805
HIST 373: North American Conquest, 1500-1900
Fall 2019: Examines attempts by aboriginal, imperial, and mercantile forces to claim and control the North American continent from the arrival of the Spanish conquistadors in the early 1500s to the surrender of Geronimo in 1886. Lectures and readings will explore the processes of colonization from many perspectives, paying equal attention to Aboriginal, American, English, French, Russian, and Spanish ambitions and activities.
Topics: processes of dispossession and incorporation; reciprocal relationships between nature and imperialism; global linkages in imperial contests; aboriginal agendas and responses to expansionism; political and economic development; spatial and historical implications of settlement.
Course Prerequisites
45 credit hours including 9 hours of lower division history credit and one of HIST 101, 212, or permission of the department.
Required Texts
Juliana Barr, Peace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands (UNC Press, 2007)
Michael Witgen, An Infinity of Nations: How the Native New World Shaped Early North America (Pennsylvania, 2011)
Ryan Jones, Empire of Extinction: Russians and the North Pacific's Strange Beasts of the Sea, 1741-1867 (Oxford, 2014)
Karl Jacoby, Shadows at Dawn: An Apache Massacre and the Violence of History (Penguin, 2009)
Primary documents available on the Canvas website
Course Evaluation
Midterm exam 30%
Research paper 30%
Final Exam 30%
Tutorial 10%
Topics: processes of dispossession and incorporation; reciprocal relationships between nature and imperialism; global linkages in imperial contests; aboriginal agendas and responses to expansionism; political and economic development; spatial and historical implications of settlement.
Course Prerequisites
45 credit hours including 9 hours of lower division history credit and one of HIST 101, 212, or permission of the department.
Required Texts
Juliana Barr, Peace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands (UNC Press, 2007)
Michael Witgen, An Infinity of Nations: How the Native New World Shaped Early North America (Pennsylvania, 2011)
Ryan Jones, Empire of Extinction: Russians and the North Pacific's Strange Beasts of the Sea, 1741-1867 (Oxford, 2014)
Karl Jacoby, Shadows at Dawn: An Apache Massacre and the Violence of History (Penguin, 2009)
Primary documents available on the Canvas website
Course Evaluation
Midterm exam 30%
Research paper 30%
Final Exam 30%
Tutorial 10%
