Keywords / Overview


Announcements:
Lectures on Tuesday are in Williamson 100 (across the street)

Reading for Friday sections: Pagden preface, intro, chronology + Osterhammel [ARES]

If you are in Sect 4759 (Fri period 4 CBD 224), please go to MAT 004 tomorrow.

History majors may receive ASH or EUH credit for this class.

Tell your TAs by Tuesday whether you will be doing the journal or the reaction papers.

 

secret

The Secret of England's Greatness by Thomas Jones Barker (late 19th c)



I. Defining our terms

Oxford English Dictionary

A. empire
    imperium
    early modern uses
    modern definitions; characteristics:

expansive

diverse

core (metropole) / periphery

cultural differences

violent military conquest
         
direct and indirect rule / collaborators


B. imperialism

Napoleon III
Lenin
jingoism


C. colony
    colonia
    plantation

D. colonialism/ colonization

settler colonialism



mughal empire

The Mughal Empire

 

II. Empires in world history [chronology of empires]
A. categories

B. ancient empires

Assyrians
Persian Achaemenid Empire
empire of Alexander the Great
Egyptian Empire
T'ang China