SS-422 Great Port Cities of the World

3 Credits

This course examines great port cities of the world in comparative fashion. We will look at well-known cities such as New York, Venice, Amsterdam, and Shanghai, as well as less visible ones from early modern times to the present. In analyzing port cities as thoroughfares of transnational traffic, we will focus on people, goods, ships, communities, and political relations that have evolved in these intense and creative hubs of human activity.