This course has three goals:
- To pursuit a critical study of scholarly and literary works documenting and analyzing environmental, economic, political, social, and cultural transformations in the world
- To discuss how different approaches are put to work to study the role of nature and environment in statemaking, economic, political, social, and cultural transformations.
- To examine primary, secondary, and tertiary historical sources to question various methodologies and theoretical approaches of environmental and economic history, political economy and ecology, historical geography, environmental archaeology and anthropology