HIST1012 · History

Atlantic Worlds II: Race, Religion, and the Struggle for Democracy

Morrissey College of Arts & Sciences

Formerly Modern Atlantic Worlds This course is a continuation of Atlantic Worlds I, but with new thematic impulses. The course looks at: 1.) The Enlightenment and its challenges to religion; 2.) The rise of the teleological ideology of Marxism/Leninism and its political properties in relation to religion, race, and the state; 3.) European colonial expansionism and its implementation in areas of the world where democratic values were becoming skewed over time; 4.) racial thinking and the role of the churches in the 20th century as eugenic movements swept through various sections of the democracies and as totalitarianism rose in Europe. Business history, Latin American history, African history, Jesuit history, and even the history of Jazz all play a role in this class on the ever-expanding Atlantic World!