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Åbo Akademi University 2014/2015
ARTS
Grete Brochmann, Anniken Hagelund, 'Migrants in the Scan-
dinavian Welfare State: The emergence of a social policy
problem', Nordic Journal of Migration Research (2011)
Vol. 1, Iss. 1, pp: 13-24.
Being Human in Times of Climate Change
5 credits
Advanced level
Lectured course
Offered: Autumn 2014
Lecturer: Dr Stefan Norrgård
Course description: This course gives a general introduction
to the changing climates in history. The preliminary aimof the
course is to give the students an understanding of the history
of the climates. Its relation and correlation to human history.
Thereby presenting the rise and fall of civilisations, but also
certain events in history, such as the climatically inducedwitch
hunt (1500s) and trans-Atlantic slave trade (1700s). The course
aims to give the students a good understanding of the basics
inhistorical climatology and climatic reconstructions basedon
historical documents. Including an insight of climatic impact
in history (direct and indirect impacts), but also the ability to
understand how climate is portrayed, discussed and viewed
in themedia. The students will, after the course, have a better
comprehension of climateSection 1s role in history and the
climate change discourse.
Examination: Essay
Literature:
H. H. Lamb, Climate, History and the Modern World (London
1997), Wolfgang Behringer, A Cultural History of Climate
(Cambridge 2010),
Michael H. Glantz, ClimateAffairs. APrimer (Washington 2003),
William F. Ruddiman, Plows, Plagues & Petroleum. How Hu-
mans Took Control of Climate (Princeton 2005),
Robert W. Kates et al. Climate Impact Assessment (Chichester
1985),
Mike Hulme, Why We Disagree About Climate Change (Cam-
bridge 2009),
Caviedes, César N., El Niño in History. Storming Through the
Ages (Gainesville 2001),
Brázdil, Rudolf et al., 24Historical Climatology in Europe
State of the ArtSection 1, Climatic Change (vol. 70, no 3:2005),
pp. 363430,
Pfister, Christian, 24The vulnerability of past societies to
climatic variation: a new focus for historical climatology in
the twenty-first centurySection 1, Climatic Change (vol. 100,
no 1:2010), pp. 2531,
Pfister, Christian, 24Climatic Extremes, Recurrent Crises and
Witch Hunts: Strategies of European Societies in Coping with
Exogenous Shocks in the Late SixteenthandEarly Seventeenth
CenturiesSection 1, The Medieval History Journal (vol. 10, no
12:2007), pp. 3371, J
ohnson, Sherry, 24El Niño, Environmental Crisis and the
Emergence of Alternative Markets in the Hispanic Caribbean,
1760s70sSection 1, The William and Mary Quarterly (vol. LXII,
no 3:2005), pp. 365410
Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines and Emperors (New York 1990).
Environmental History
110550.1
10 credits
Intermediate level
Self-study course
Offered: Upon agreement
Contact: PhD Laura Hollsten
Aim: To introduce the fieldof Environmental History and some
central questions within the subject.
Format: Literary studies under supervision of teacher
Prerequisites: Two years of studies in history recommended
Target audience: Year 3 or 4
Form of assessment Paper, Examination
Course literature:
Simmons, I.G. Environmental history: An introduction (1993)
Arnold, D. The Problem of Nature. Environment, Culture and
European Expansion (1996).
Crosby, A. Germs, Seeds and Animal. Studies in Ecological
History (1994).
Glacken, C. Traces on the Rhodian Shore. Nature and Culture
in Western Thought from Ancient Times to the End of the
Eighteenth Century (1967).
Grove, R. Green Imperialism (1995).
Melosi, M. Garbage in the Cities (1981).
Ponting, C. A Green History of the World (1991).
Merchant, C. Death of nature: Women, Ecology, and the Sci-
entific Revolution (1980).
Thomas, K. Man and the natural World: Changing Attitudes
in England 1500-1800 (1984).
Schama, S. Landscape and Memory (1995).
Worster, D. Nature´s Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas
(1977).
Global history
110254.2
10 credits
Intermediate level
Self-study course
Offered: Upon agreement
Contact: Professor Holger Weiss
Contents: The course highlights global interconnections,
social transformations and spatio-temporal dimensions. The
reading list introduces both historical and contemporary
forms of globalization.
Prerequisites: Studies at the basic level
Form of assessment: Written examination based on
literature(ca. 6 monographs) including:
J.L. Abu-Lughod (1989), Before European Hegemony: The
World System AD 1250-1350
J. Diamond (1997), Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Hu-
man Societies
A.G. Frank (1998), Re-Orient: Global Economy in the Asian Age
R. Robertson (2003), The Three waves of Globalization. A His-
tory of a Developing Global Consciousness
D. Landes (1998), The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why
some are so rich and some are so poor
K. N. Chaudhuri (1990), Asia Before Europe. Economy and
Civilization of the Indian Ocean from the Rise of Islam to 1750
K. Pomeranz (2000), The great divergence: China, Europe and
the making of the modern world economy
A.G. Hopkins (ed., 2002), Globalization in world history
Early Modern Nordic History
111554.1
10 credits
Advanced level
Self-study course
Offered: Upon agreement
Contact: Prof Nils Erik Villstrand,
Contents: The course focuses on problems concerning the
power state/military state, political culture, social control and
integrative processes.
Prerequisites: studies at the intermediate level
Form of assessment: examination
Course literature:
Roberts, Michael: The Swedish Imperial Experience 1560-
