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Shakespeare’s Globalization

January 24, 2013 by Steve Mentz 1 Comment

Starting a new grad course this evening with the above title. I wonder if the students will be disappointed that there will be more globalization than Shakespeare? Antony and Cleopatra and The Tempest, among assorted other literary and historical texts. But tonight, we’re starting with Charles Mann’s 1493Β and his explanation of what Alfred Crosby calls the “Columbian Exchange”; with some discussion about the different valences of the terms “anthropocene” (which seems to be catching) and “homogenocene” (which hasn’t, but may be more accurate, and maybe more threatening); and eventually with some gorgeous maps — which probably won’t show up all that well in the blog. First, Wright-Molyneux (1599):

Wright map compositeAnd, of course, Waldseemuller (1507):

Waldseemuller_map_in_color

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  1. Stuart Elden says

    January 25, 2013 at 8:19 am

    Sounds fascinating, and some great maps!

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