OLLI Workshop - Undercurrents of HistoryLeader: Theo PavlidisThe premise of the workshop is that history is formed by underlying forces rather than the random actions of individuals (except maybe in rare cases). Several scholars have advanced this view, most recently Jared Diamond in his best-seller Guns, Germs, and Steel. In the Spring of 2014 we back to the start of the workshop in the spring of 2013. But instead of rushing towards a comparison of developments in China and Europe we will spend more time in examining other parts of the world with special emphasis on the different approaches to religion. Here is a list of topics with the terms in parentheses comparing to the old coverage:
* overlap with material from Middle East History workshop. |