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HIST222
European Imperialism and the Third World II
HIST222 FA
Crosslistings: AFST222
Photo Caption and Credits
Fall 96 Availability (Last Updated on Sat Mar 8 05:00:40 EST 1997
)
Section Limit Enrollment Available
01 44 44 0
Continues several themes of History 221 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)
Gann and Duignan, BURDEN OF EMPIRE
Nandy, THE INTIMATE ENEMY
Porter, THE LION'S SHARE
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.
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.
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.
COURSE FORMAT: Discussion Lecture
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Level: UG Credit: 1.00
Gen Ed Area & Dept: SBS HIST
Prerequisites:
None
- Section 01
- Elphick, R
- Times: .T.T... 10:00AM;
- Grading Mode: A/F
- Registration Preference (1 high to 6 low, 0=Excluded) Sr: 1, Jr: 1, So: 1, Fr: 1
- Major Preference Given
Last Updated on MAR-10-1997
About the Photo:
African colonization in 1914. The colonized countries are
colored respective to their European and Ottoman colonizers.
eg- blue = France and its colonies; light green = Belgium and
its colonies, etc.
Reference:
Winkleman, Barry and Ailsa Hudson, eds. THE TIMES
CONCISE ATLAS OF WORLD HISTORY. Maplewood,
New Jersey: Hammond, Inc., 1982
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