This course focuses specifically on the historical context and perspective of the relationship of politics and economics in modern societies. Students are guided through an interdisciplinary survey of the historical experience of peoples and places who have participated in the ongoing great transformation away from argricultural societies to the rise of the industrial state and onto post-industrialism. Each term provides a different perspective of this transformation.

This course examines how the “Third World” as idea and political identity emerged from the global Cold War; the hopes and disappointments of revolutionary anticolonial nationalism and human rights projects since 1945; Soviet and American practices of “modernization” and development in Asia and Africa, and their environmental and economic critics; legacies for contemporary politics.

This class will be taught remotely with Synchronous instruction during the currently scheduled class days/times. No Time Conflicts allowed.

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