Learning outcomes
The aim of the course is to analyze and understand the evolution of relations between the European and Asian worlds during the great geographic explorations and the formation of the great colonial empires in order to overcome the classical Eurocentric vision that has long dominated the interpretation of this phase of European expansion.
Course contents
At the dawn of the modern age, Europeans began to interact more and more closely with the various Asian realities, creating a series of trade empires. The course seeks to analyze the evolution and formation of a series of Euro-Asian colonial societies with the creation of a series of worlds dating from the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries far beyond the classical Eurocentric vision in line with the most recent historiographic interpretations.
During the course, a seminar will be held (12 hours) by Professor Alessandra Ferraresi on the role of European missionaries in the Asian world (reference bibliography will be indicated during the course)
Reccomended or required readings
Reading list
All the attending students (lessons and seminary) will have to study
Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Mondi connessi. La storia oltre l'eurocentrismo (secc. XVI-XVIII), Roma, Carocci, 2014
Charles H. Parker, Relazioni globali nell'età moderna 1400-1800, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2012
For the not participants, it’s obligatory the lecture of one of this books:
Holden Furber, Imperi rivali nei mercati d’oriente 1600/1800, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1986
Sanjay Subrahmanyam, L’empire portugais d’Asie 1500-1700, Paris, 2013
B.W. Diffie e G.D. Winius, Alle origini dell’espansione europea. La nascita dell’impero portoghese 1415/1580, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1985.
Philip J. Stern, The Company-State. Corporate Soveregnty & the Early Modern Foundations of the British Empire in India, Oxford, 2011.
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