課程說明：
本課程旨在透過環大西洋歐洲、美洲與非洲三洲相遇的歷史(1500-1800)，以瞭解世界第一次的全球化、資本主義起源以及黑奴貿易。為此，本課程將透過各類學術研究成果以介紹大西洋史。
本課程由三個教學單元組成。第一單元「第一次全球化」，簡要介紹歐亞地區在政治、經濟與文化的主要發展特徵，例如探討中國與歐洲之跨地區與文明的海上探險，及其如何埋下全球經濟趨同的伏筆，還有歐洲人如何回應新世界一切。第二單元「哥倫布交流」，簡要介紹三大洲交流所帶來的生態影響。第三單元「地方、物品、人」，以地方、物品、人為主題，視其為大西洋史最主要研究議題以及研究方式，在經由討論「地方、物品、人」過程中認識大西洋交流中的暴力、經濟發展以及種族衝突、同化與認同。
※評分標準
1.課堂表現(10%)(出缺席)
2.指定閱讀書目或文章討論課(20%)
3.賞析電影、討論或A4心得(20%)
4.期末考(20%)
5.專題與書面報告(兩次, 30%)
※作業要求
一、指定團體口頭與書面報告
二、影視賞析後,課堂討論與書面報告
二、期末考。
※上課教材
講義
影片
※參考(書目)資料
Jared Diamond，《槍砲、病菌與鋼鐵: 人類社會的命運》，王道還、廖月娟譯。台北：時報出版社，1998年。
Kenneth Pomeranz，《大分流：中國、歐洲與現代世界經濟的形成》，邱澎生等譯。
台北:巨流圖書公司，2004年。
Jacques Barzun，《從黎明到衰頹：五百年來的西方文化生活》，鄭明萱譯。台北：貓頭鷹出版社，2004。
Kenneth Pomeranz and
Steven Topik，《貿易打造的世界─社會、文化、世界經濟，從1400年到現在》，黃中憲譯。 台北:如果出版社，2007年。
課程大綱（每週主題與進度）：
一、課程介紹與導論—「大西洋史」作為一個研究取向
Alison Games,“Atlantic History: Definition, Challenges and Opportunities,”The American Historical Review Vol. 111, No. 3 (June 2006): 741-757.
單元一：第一次全球化
二、中國與歐洲的跨區域海上探險
三、歐洲人、美洲人與非洲人在大西洋世界 (Atlantic World)
Marks, Robert B. The Origins of the Modern World：A Global and Ecological Narrative from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-first Century. New York and Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2007(second ed.)
Bailyn, Bernard. Atlantic History: Concept and Contours. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2005.
Butel, Paul. translated by Iain Hamilton Grant. The Atlantic. New York, London: Routledge, 1999.
Cañizares-Esguerra, Jorge. And Seeman, Erik R. ed.,. The Atlantic in Global History, 1500-2000. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2007.
Pagden, Anthony. European Encounters with the New World: From Renaissance to Romanticism. New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1993.
單元二：哥倫布交流
四、哥倫布交流
Crosby, Alfred W.. The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492. Westport, Connecticut& London: Praeger Publishers, 2003.(Greenwood Press 1972)
Carney, Judith A. Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2001.
Carney, Judith A. and Rosomoff, Richard Nicholas. In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa’s Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 2009.
Cronon, William. Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England. New York: Hill and Wang, 2003.(first revised edition)
McCann, James C.. Maize and Grace: Africa’s Encounter with a New World Crop, 1500-2000. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2007.(first paperback edition)
McNeill, J. R. Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Merchant, Carolyn. Ecological Revolutions: Nature, Gender, and Science in New England. Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press, 1989.
Schiebinger, Londa. Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004.
單元三：地方、物品、人
五、 地方
Cronon, William. Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England. New York: Hill and Wang, 2003.(first revised edition)
Mangan, Jane. Trading Roles: Gender, Ethnicity, and the Urban Economy in Colonial Potosi. Durham: Duke University Press, 2005).
Hatfield, April Lee. Atlantic Virginia: Intercontinental Relations in the Seventeenth Century. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003.
六、 物品(Chocolate, Madeira Wine, and Silver)
Norton, Marcy. Sacred Gifts, Profane Pleasures: A history of Tobacco and Chocolate in the Atlantic World. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2008.
Schwartz, Stuart B.. Tropical Babylons: Sugar and the Making of the Atlantic World, 1450-1680. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2000.
Hancock, David. Oceans of Wine: Madeira and the Emergence of American Trade and Taste. New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2009.
Marcy Norton, “Conquests of Chocolate,” Magazine of History 18, No. 3 (April 2004): 14-17.
Marcy Norton, “Chocolate and then Internalization of Mesoamerian Aesthetics,” The American Historical Review Vol. 111, No. 3(June 2006): 660-691.
Stein, Stanley and Stein, Barbara. Silver, Trade, and War: Spain and America in the Making of Early Modern Europe. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.
七、人
Racine, Karane. and Mamigonian, Beatriz G. ed.. The Human Tradition in the Atlantic World, 1500-1850. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman& Littlefield Publishers, Inc. 2010.
Chedgzoy, Kate. Women’s Writing in the British Atlantic World: Memory, Place and History, 1550-1700. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Burnard, Trevor. Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire : Thomas Thistlewood and His Slaves in the Anglo‐Jamaican World. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003.
Waldstreicher, David. Runaway America: Benjamin Franklin, Slavery and the
American Revolution. New York: Hill and Wang, 2005.
Hancock, David. Citizens of the World: London Merchants and the Integration of the British Atlantic Community, 1735 – 1785. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Saunt, Claudio. A New Order of Things: Property, Power, and the Transformation of the Creek Indian, 1733– 1816. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Davis, Natalie Zemon. Women on the Margins: Three seventeenth-century Lives. Cambridge, Massachusette: Harvard University Press, 1997.(fourth printing)
