Colonial and Early American Infrastructures - Einzelansicht

This seminar will look at underlying/foundational structures and networks on the North American continent between the 17th and 19th century. Discussing both material and immaterial infrastructures, sessions will address diverse topics such as roads and waterways, settlements, religion, slavery, or indigenous landscapes among others. Working with literary texts, images and textual documents of the time, as well as modern media resources, students in this seminar will strengthen their analytical skills of different cultural artifacts.