Cryo-History: Histories of Cold Places
HIST 112
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Description
This seminar provides a comprehensive introduction to “cryo-history”, a field that centers cold places (polar, alpine, and industrially refrigerated environments) and their human and nonhuman inhabitants in historical inquiry. It is conducted with a specific aim to foreground Indigenous and Eurasian knowledges that shaped global empires, colonialism, capitalism, socialism, urbanization, war, as well as modern Earth science, technology, and medicine.
Course Notes
This course meets the "Beyond North America" History Concentration requirement.
School
Faculty of Arts & Sciences
Credits
4
Cross Reg
N/A
Department
History
Course Component
Seminar
Subject
History
Grading Basis
FAS Letter Graded
General Education
N/A
Quantitative Reasoning with Data
N/A
Divisional Distribution
Social Sciences
Course Level
For Undergraduate and Graduate Students
