Connections and Currents in the Early Mo (V1491)
Connections and Currents in the Early Modern Atlantic
Module V1491
Module details for 2026/27.
15 credits
FHEQ Level 5
Module Outline
In this module you will explore the transatlantic currents which forged connections between the material worlds, politics, and cultures of societies in Europe, Africa, and America. We will examine the development of trade and colonisation in the Atlantic World, including the transatlantic trade in enslaved people, and how the movement of people and commodities can help us to understand the development of ideas about taste and civility, race and gender, environment and disease. We will consider how new social, economic, and political thinking emerged, leading to the Age of Revolution, and the role of marginalised and enslaved people in resistance and the articulation of radical ideas about freedom. To understand these key developments from a range of perspectives, including those of free and enslaved women, children, and men, we will work with a diverse set of primary sources from travel writing and material culture to political pamphlets and visual arts.
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