HI 298 - Conflict and Environment

Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
Credit Hours: 3

This course explores how nature, or the natural world, has shaped conflicts and how conflicts have shape the natural world from the early modern period to the present. This course uses a comparative approach to explore the relationship between humans, conflict, and the environment within the Atlantic World. Conflict will be examined from a broad perspective, which can include war and rebellion, but also social conflicts. Key topics include ecological imperialism, colonization, the General Crisis, the Global Crisis, the Little Ice Age, the Age of Revolutions, the U.S. Civil War, Coal Wars, World War II, and the Atomic Age. Region: U.S. or Europe or Asia/Africa/Latin America, but only one.