1 School of History, Philosophy, Political Science and International Relations History 2007 Trimester 2 HIST233: THE ATLANTIC WORLD, 1600‑1850 CRN 9521 Contents page Course guide ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 4 Trimester outline ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 13 Lecture guide ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 16 Tutorial guide ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 17 Essay writing: general instructions ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 26 Assessment 1: Map quiz ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 38 Assessment 2: Article review ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 39 Assessment 3: Research essay ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 53 Model 200­level essay ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 55 Assessment 4: Terms test ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 64 Lecture readings ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 66 Essay writing reading ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 169 Tutorial readings ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 173 Maps and supplementary materials ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 259 Victoria University of Wellington, History Programme, HIST233: THE ATLANTIC WORLD, 1600­1850, 2007/233/2 2 Lecture readings page Richard Dunn, Sugar and Slaves: The Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies, 1624­1713, New York, 1973, pp. 46­83 [ISBN 0­393­00692­1] 66 Clinton V. Black, Pirates of the West Indies, New York, 1989, pp. 1­25 [ISBN 0­521­35818­3] 85 Frank Sherry, Raiders and Rebels: The Golden Age of Piracy, New York, 1986, pp. 235­62 [ISBN 0­688­07515­0] 98 Wilfrid Oldham, Britain’s Convicts to the Colonies, Sydney, 1990, pp. 9­32 [ISBN 0­908120­77­X] 113 A. G. L. Shaw, Convicts and the Colonies, Melbourne, 1981, pp. 38­57 [ISBN 0­522­84114­7] 126 David Geggus, “The Effects on the American Revolution on France and its Empire,” in Jack P. Greene and J. R. Pole (eds.), The Blackwell Encyclopedia of the American Revolution, Cambridge, 1991, pp. 518­27 [ISBN 1­55786­244­3] 136 David Geggus, “The Haitian Revolution,” in Hilary Beckles and Verene Shepherd (eds.), Caribbean Slave Society and Economy, New York, 1991, pp. 402­18 [ISBN 1­565­840­860] 141 John Lynch, The Spanish American Revolutions, 1808­1826, New York, 1986, pp. 1­37 [ISBN 0­393­95537­0] 150 Essay writing readings J. R. S. Phillips, The Medieval Expansion of Europe, Oxford, 1988, pp. 148­55 [ISBN 0­19­289123­5] 169 Tutorial readings Tutorial 1 Richard Hakluyt, Voyages and Discoveries, ed. Jack Beeching, New York, 1985, pp. 386­410, 442­444 [ISBN 0­14­043073­3] 173 Kenneth R. Andrews, Trade, Plunder and Settlement, Cambridge, 1991, pp. 287­300 [ISBN 0­521­27698­5] 188 Victoria University of Wellington, History Programme, HIST233: THE ATLANTIC WORLD, 1600­1850, 2007/233/2 3 Tutorial 2 Richard Dunn, “Experiments Holy and Unholy, 1630­1” in K. R. Andrews, N. P. Canny and P. E. H. Hair (eds.), The Westward Enterprise, Liverpool, 1978, pp. 271­89 [ISBN 85323­453­1] 196 Tutorial 3 Marcus Rediker, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, Cambridge, 1987, pp. 254­87 [ISBN 0­521­37983­0] 206 Tutorial 6 Robert L. Paquette, “Revolutionary Saint Domingue in the Making of Territorial Louisiana,” in David Barry Gaspar and David Patrick Geggus (eds.), Turbulent Time: The French Revolution and the Greater Caribbean, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1997, pp. 204­25 [ISBN 0­253­21086­0] 223 Tutorial 7 Seymour Drescher, From Slavery to Freedom: Comparative Studies in the Rise and Fall of Atlantic Slavery, New York, 1999, pp. 57­86 234 [ISBN 0­8147­1918­X] Eric Williams, Capitalism and Slavery, London, 1989, pp. 197­208, 258­261 [ISBN 0­233­95676­X] 250 Maps and Illustrations 259 Copyright Warning Notice This set of Student Notes may be used only for the University’s educational purposes. It includes extracts of copyright works copied under copyright licences. You may not copy or distribute any part of the Student Notes to any other person. You may not make a further copy for any other purpose. Failure to comply with the terms of this warning may expose you to legal action for copyright infringement and/or disciplinary action by the University. Victoria University of Wellington, History Programme, HIST233: THE ATLANTIC WORLD, 1600­1850, 2007/233/2 4 School of History, Philosophy, Political Science and International Relations History 2007 Trimester 2 HIST233: THE ATLANTIC WORLD, 1600‑1850 CRN 9521 Lecturer: Steve Behrendt Additional information Education: BA (1984), MA (1988), PhD (1993) General notices will be given in lectures and placed on Room: Old Kirk Building 503 Blackboard. Formal notices containing course information will Phone: 463‑6757 be posted on the main History Programme noticeboard, 4th floor, E‑mail: [email protected] Old Kirk Building. Lecture times: Wednesdays, 10:00‑11:50am Venue: Hugh Mackenzie Lecture Theatre (LT) 002 Please note: tutorials commence second week of term Tutorials Seven 50‑minute tutorials will be held on Wednesdays (3:10‑4:00) and Thursdays Course aims (2:10‑3:00; 3:10‑4:00) in classrooms on the Kelburn campus (one tutorial will be held HIST233 introduces students to major themes in Atlantic in Rankine Brown 901). Any changes to the history in the period 1600‑1850. HIST331 (Transatlantic slave tutorial programme will be announced in lecture trade and slavery) builds upon some of the broad themes and will be posted on the History Programme introduced in HIST233. Assessments will teach students how noticeboard and on Blackboard. to write concise and clear sentences and paragraphs, how to structure History essays, and will give students historical Office hours: Wed. 4:10‑5:00; Thu. 4:10‑5:00; or by appt background to some key issues in Atlantic and world history. Victoria University of Wellington, History Programme, HIST233: THE ATLANTIC WORLD, 1600­1850, 2007/233/2 5 Outline of course content Course objectives In this trimesterʹs course on Atlantic world history, 1600‑1850, HIST233 examines Atlantic history during the period of we focus on migration to the West and resistance to European growing British and French dominance, 1600‑1850. Lecture colonial and governmental policies. European governments and tutorial topics emphasize the importance of historic created colonial systems in the Atlantic world to benefit their context—understanding historical events and the thinking of citizens and strengthen their states and economies; the peoples historical actors in contemporary context. Close attention is who lived in these Atlantic colonies attempted to organise their paid also to primary source material, including Walter own lives independent of European rule. The Atlantic world is Raleigh’s description of the riches of Guiana (1595) and often viewed as an integrated community of peoples linked documents concerning indentured servants and 18 th Century through maritime trade. In the first part of the course we Maryland convicts. Assessments are designed to develop a examine this broad theme. We then turn to smugglers and number of specific writing, verbal and independent thinking pirates: groups of mariners who resisted European policies to skills, to prepare students for upper‑level papers in the regulate Atlantic commerce. Then we discuss the institution of Humanities and for employment outside the university. slavery and development of plantation societies. We analyse the Students passing the course should be able to: reasons why plantations first worked European indentured labour and then turned to enslaved African labour. The latter 1. read with accuracy and discrimination part of the course examines the Atlantic revolutions of the North 2. come to terms with conflicting or different arguments American colonies, France, the Caribbean colony of St. 3. formulate arguments convincingly and concisely Domingue and the colonies of Spanish America and Brazil. 4. write in a clear and logical way Emphasis is placed on the links between these revolutionary 5. use information resources efficiently and constructively movements. We conclude with a discussion of the changes in Atlantic societies by 1850. Victoria University of Wellington, History Programme, HIST233: THE ATLANTIC WORLD, 1600­1850, 2007/233/2 6 Relationship between assessment and course objectives Course reading Assessments in HIST233 meet the course objectives by teaching Essential text: HIST233 Book of Readings. There is no assigned essay‑writing skills and testing lecture and tutorial material. textbook in HIST233. Students should prepare for lectures by Assessment 2 is an article review. The principal learning reading background material provided in this Book of Readings, objectives are to teach students how to paraphrase secondary consulting works listed in the Lecture Guide (reproduced sources properly, to identify main arguments in historical essays, below), or by gaining general historical information on the and to write concise sentences and fully developed paragraphs lecture topics from reference works or appropriate internet sites. introduced by strong topic sentences. The exercise also teaches students how to limit their reliance on quotes and evaluate Textbooks can be