For this assignment read Crosby, Ecological Imperialism and Brook, Vermeer’s Hat. The topic is described below:
Some historians who are interested in doing more than outlining world history in detail have attempted to organize it around the concept of ‘movement.’ People moved; armies moved; trade goods were moved; ideas were moved. With these remarks in mind, write an account of how, in quite different ways, Crosby and Brook explain the importance of movements for world history