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Academic Year 2002/2003

European Imperialism II
HIST 222 SP
Clusters:

African Studies
Southern Asia and Indian Ocean

This course continues several themes of HIST221 through the era of industrialization (19th and 20th centuries) but emphasizes the formation of a global society divided between rich and poor. Topics include the European conquest of Africa and Asia, the varying modes of colonial control, the creation of colonial economies dependent on the West, the population explosion, the development of superiority feelings in the West and dependency feelings in Africa and Asia, the political revolt of the colonized in the 1950s and the economic revolt of the 1970s.

MAJOR READINGS

Altick, VICTORIAN PEOPLE AND IDEAS
Chaudhuri & Strobel, WESTERN WOMEN AND IMPERIALISM Forster, PASSAGE TO INDIA
Freund, THE MAKING OF CONTEMPORARY AFRICA Gandhi, THE ESSENTIAL GANDHI (ed. Fischer)
Nandy, THE INTIMATE ENEMY
Smith, EUROPEAN IMPERIALISM
Van Onselen, CHIBARO: AFRICAN MINE LABOUR IN SOUTHERN RHODESIA
Wolpert, A NEW HISTORY OF INDIA
Wright, THE NEW IMPERIALISM

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

(1) Regular attendance and class participation, (2) three medium-length papers, (3) one exam.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

No extensions, no late papers, no incompletes. Students wishing to put their names on a waiting list should drop a note to the professor; they should NOT use e-mail or voicemail.

Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed Drop/Add form to the Registrar's Office.

COURSE FORMAT: Discussion

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UGRD    Credit: 1    Gen Ed Area Dept: SBS HIST    Grading Mode: Graded   

Prerequisites: NONE Links to Web Resources For This Course.

Last Updated on MAR-18-2003

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