Announcements: Check the syllabus for Friday's readings. History majors may receive ASH or EUH credit for this class. |
The White Man's
Burden, 1899
Tony Blair's speech to Congress, 17 July 2003
Has the United
States had, and/or does it currently have, an empire? If so, discuss the history and current state of American imperialism in light of the empires studied in this class.
Scope
geographic: western Europe
chronological
A. classical
B. [premodern/medieval]
C. early modern
the rise of the west [Empires in World History timeline]
transformation of Europe: fiscal-military states, expansion of commerce and rise of capitalism, Reformation and counterReformation, emergence of the new science, the Enlightenment
a shrinking world > globalization
D. modern
age of revolutions > decolonizationindustrialization/ strengthening capitalism
nationalism
new racial ideologies
shifting gender relations
world wars
Percentage of the world in western European, US, and Russian control
| 1800 |
35% |
| 1878 |
67% |
| 1914 |
84% |
E. contemporary (postcolonial)
Anthony
Pagden
Course themes
movement, power, ideology (a system of ideas that informs the way people conceptualize the world and their place within in, that lead them to act in certain ways, and that allow them to justify their actions)
Syllabus