Special Topics: Worlds Collide: Empire and Environment in the Modern Era
HIS-529-020
SUNY Cortland
- Semester
- Summer 2025
- Instructor
- Tyson Luneau
- Start Date
- 06-30-2025
- Total Credits
- 3
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This course examines the intersections among environmental knowledge, ecological change, and imperial expansion in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Utilizing a global-comparative approach, students will examine the bilateral relationship between imperialism and environment, drawing on case studies across the British, French, and Russian empires. Topics of comparative analysis will include environmental knowledge, agriculture, resource extraction, public health & disease, conservation, and anticolonial resistance. Through assigned readings and discussion, students will engage with relevant historiographies on imperialism and environmental history, tracing the evolution and increasing overlap of these thematic lenses. Students will also consider the place of these lenses in broader “conventional” history narratives and curricula. The course will conclude with an analysis of the ecological legacy of imperialism and how these forces have contributed to environmental knowledge and practice in the postcolonial era.
Course Area: History
Level: Graduate
Dates: 06-30-2025 - 08-04-2025
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