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HIST 624Environmental & Climate History, Premodern

Units
0.50
Level
Graduate
Faculty
Arts
Subject
History

HIST 624 as listed in the Spring 2026 Graduate Calendar. The main page has the current version, when it runs, and seats.

This course introduces graduate students to the major authors, works, and themes of preindustrial environmental and climate history. It demonstrates how historians frame the historical interaction of mutable human culture and natural environment. The locus of study is western Europe, the period between the end of antiquity and the start of the industrial revolution. Each week, students will read assigned texts and discuss them in a seminar format. Ultimately, each student must write a final research essay.

Prerequisites

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In 13 terms, Winter 2020 to Winter 2024