Monday: Rise of the Slave Trade and the Slave Economy
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Wednesday: The Enlightenment and the Public Sphere
Read:
- Tom Standage, “The Coffee House Internet,” in A History of the World in 6 Glasses (New York: Bloomsbury, 2006), 151–72. (on Zotero)
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Friday: Discussion #4
Primary Sources
- Geoffrey Galt Harpham, ed., “Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet),” in Theories of Race, accessed July 18, 2023, https://theoriesofrace.com/2.
- Immanuel Kant, “Immanuel Kant,” in Theories of Race, ed. Geoffrey Galt Harpham, accessed July 19, 2023, https://theoriesofrace.com/8. (Do NOT read “On National Characters.” Far too long for this class.).
- “Salon Life,” Internet History Sourcebooks: Modern History, accessed July 14, 2023, https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/18salons.asp.
- “Excerpts from Slave Narratives – Chapter 9,” accessed July 17, 2023, http://www.vgskole.net/prosjekt/slavrute/9.htm.
- “Rousseau, Jean-Jacques: The Social Contract,” January 20, 2005, https://web.archive.org/web/20050120090652/http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_2/rousseau.html.