[cs] Cultural Studies II - North America: "The North American Atlantic: Slavers, Whalers and Pirates" - Einzelansicht

The North Atlantic plays a defining role in the history of the North American continent, from colonization, through the Triangle Trade to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). In looking at slavers, whalers and pirates, the seminar will consider the role of seafaring trades and oceanic outlaws in the formation of 18^th and 19^th century North America. It will look at maritime commerce and crime both from a historical perspective (What happened?) and as important vantage points from which to understand North American society, culture and politics (e.g. What were the on-deck political arrangements on whaling ships? How were pirates involved in the colonial policies of the Early Republic and its fear of slave revolts?). Students will thus be introduced to North American History, as well as Cultural Studies methods and concepts.

Course material will be drawn from but not limited to:

American Experience. Into the Deep: America, Whaling & the World. Dir. Ric Burns. PBS. 2010. DVD. 

Bailyn, Bernard & Patricia L. Benault (Eds.) Soundings in Atlantic History: Latent Structures and Intellectual Currents. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2009. Print. 

Baucom, Ian. Specters of the Atlantic. Finance Capital, Slavery and the Philosophy of History. Durham: Duke UP, 2005. Print. 

Gilroy, Paul. The Black Atlantic. Modernity and Double Consciousness. London & New York: Verso, 1993. Print. 

Horn, Gerald. The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America. New York: New York UP, 2014. Print. 

Kilmeade, Brian & Don Yaeger. Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates: The forgotten War that changed American History. New York: Sentinel, 2015. Print.  

Linebaugh, Peter & Markus Reddiker (Eds.). The Many-Headed Hydra. Sailors, Slaves, Commoners and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic. Boston: Beacon Press, 2000 Print. 

Paul, Heike; Alexandra Ganser & Katharina Gerund (Eds.). Pirates, Drifters, Fugitives: Figures of Mobility in the U.S. and Beyond. Heidelberg: Winter Verlag, 2012. Print.  

Reddiker, Markus. Outlaws of the Atlantic. Sailors, Pirates and Motley Crews in the Age of Sail. Boston: Beacon Press, 2014. Print. 

Smallwood, Stephanie E. Saltwater Slavery. A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora. . Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2007. Print.

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