Lahore University of Management Sciences HIST2215 - History of Colonial Expansion, ca.

1492 1919 Spring 2013-14

Instructor Room No. Office Hours Email Telephone Ali Raza New SS Wing TBA

Course Description This course provides a general survey of colonial and imperial history from the discovery and colonisation of the Americas to the beginnings of the end of European Imperialism following the treaty of Versailles in 1919. This course will combine a roughly chronological account with a a variety of thematic approaches in order to acquaint students with a wide ranging understanding of colonial and imperial history. While an emphasis is placed on the British Empire, other European and Asian empires will also be briefly covered with an aim of highlighting the diverse experiences of colonialism and imperialism in various parts of the world. In doing so, this course will also introduce students to historiographical debates and primary source materials with a broader aim of acquainting them with the conventions of historical research and writing. This course is divided into five modules. The first surveys the conquest and colonisation of the Americas by a variety of European Empires. Additionally, it also explores the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and the varied experiences of slavery in some detail. This is followed by a module on imperial expansion in Asia. In addition to European Empires, this section will also briefly survey Eurasian and Gunpowder Empires with a dual aim of providing a comparative perspective and complicating narratives which often equate Imperialism with Europe. The third module explores the Age of Empire, roughly from the mid 19th century to the First World War, when most of the worlds land mass was ruled by European Empires. This is followed by a module which covers a variety of thematic approaches to the study of imperial and colonial history. The final section explores the various theoretical understandings of Imperialism.

Course Prerequisites None, though a history course at any level is preferable.

Course Objectives To provide students with an wide ranging understanding of colonial and imperial history and its role in indelibly shaping the modern world.

Grading Class Participation and Attendance Group Presentations Essay 1 (2000 words) Essay 2 (2000 words) Midterm Exam Final Exam (Take home) 10% 10% 20% 20% 20% 20%

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COURSE OVERVIEW Lecture 1 Description Introduction Readings -

Module 1: The Discovery of the Americas and the Atlantic Imperium 2-3 Conquest and Colonisation of the Americas: Spanish, Portuguese, British, French Empires. J. Elliot, Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America ,1492 - 1830 (Yale University Press, 2007), pp 3 - 184 and 255 - 325 Lesli Bethell (ed.), The Cambridge History of Latin America, Volume 1: Colonial Latin America (Cambridge University Press, 1984), pp 249 - 286 Primary Documents: All documents are from Howard Zinn, Anthony Arnove (eds.) Voices of a Peoples History of the United States (Seven Stories Press, 2009) Accounts of Christopher Columbus and Bartolome de Las Casas, pp 29 - 51 Richard Frethorne on Indentured Servitude, pp 63 - 65 Gottlieb Mittelbergers Jounrey to Pennsylvania in Voices of a Peoples History of the United States (Seven Stories Press, 2009), pp 72 - 76 Narratives of Native Americans, pp 133 - 139 and 140 - 146 4-5 Slavery and the TransAtlantic Slave Trade Eric Williams, Capitalism and Slavery (University of North Carolina Press, 1944), pp 30 - 85 Basil Davidson, The African Slave Trade (1980) Primary Documents Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass accessible at (http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USASdouglass.htm?menu=USAslavery) Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Life of Olaudah Equiano accessible at (http://www.brycchancarey.com/equiano/index.htm) Slave auction advertisements (to be supplied in class) Immanuel Wallerstein, The Modern World System II: Mercantilism and the Consolidation of the European World Economy, 1600 - 1750 (Academic Press, 1980) pp 36 - 71 L.S Stavrianos, Global Rift: The Third World Comes of Age (1981) pp 44 -52 Excerpts from Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations, accessible from the Modern History Sourcebook: The Principle of the Mercantile System (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1776asmith-mercsys.asp)

Colonialism and Mercantile Capitalism

Module 2: Expansion of Imperial Frontiers in Asia 7 Portuguese and Dutch Empires in South East Asia C.R Boxer Portuguese Seaborne Empire 1415 - 1825 (London, 1977) C.R Boxer Dutch Seaborne Empire 1600 - 1800 (London, 1977)

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The Russian and the Ottoman Empire

A. Krausse, Russia in Asia, 1588 - 1899 (1973), pp 103 - 123 David Nicolle, The Ottomans: Empire of Faith (Thalamus Publishing, 2008) pp 52 - 70 and 86 - 126 D. E. Streusand, Islamic Gunpowder Empires: Ottomans, Safavids and Mughals (Westview Press, 2011) pp 135 - 291 Barbara D. Metcalf and Thomas R. Metcalf, A Concise History of Modern India (Cambridge University Press, 2006) pp 1 - 92 Ayesha Jalal and Sugata Bose, Modern South Asian History: History, Culture, and Political Economy (Routledge, 2004) pp 38 -86

The Safavid and the Mughal Empire From John Company to the Raj: British Rule in India

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Module 3: High Noon of Imperialism: The Age of Empire 11 - 12 The Age of Empire and the Scramble for Africa Eric J. Hobsbawm, The Age of Empire, 1875 - 1914 (Vintage Books, 1989) pp 56 - 84 Scott Cook, Colonial Encounters in the Age of High Imperialism (Pearson, 1997) R. Robinson and J. Gallagher, African and the Victorians: The Official Mind of Imperialism (Palgrave Macmillan, 1978) Primary Documents Henry M. Stanley, How I Found Livingstone Documents from the Berlin Conference of 1884 - 1885 K.E Meyer and S.B Brysac, Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Central Asia (Counterpoint, 1999) A. Krausse, Russia in Asia, 1588 - 1899 (1973), pp 123 - 148 and 196 - 218 Primary Documents Papers of Lord Curzon. Rudyard Kipling, Kim L.S Stavrianos, Global Rift: The Third World Comes of Age (1981) pp 256 - 278 J. Gallagher and R. Robinson, The Imperialism of Free Trade, Economic History Review (August 1953) Vol. 6 No. 1, pp 1 - 15 Primary Documents VV.I Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism David Fromkin, The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East (Henry Holt and Co., 1989) pp 23 - 62, 119 - 200, 253 - 284, 493 - 569

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The Great Game: British and Russian Rivalry in Central Asia

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Monopoly Capitalism and Imperialism

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Collapse and Regeneration: The End of the Ottoman Empire and Partitioning of the Middle East The Beginning of the End: Lenin, Wilson and the Movement for Self Determination

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Erez Manela, The Wilsonian Moment: Self-Determination and the International Origins of Anti-colonial Nationalism (Oxford University Press, 2007), pp 3 - 35 Primary Documents V.I.Lenin, The Right of Nations to Self-Determination

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Module 4: Thematic Approaches to Colonial and Imperial History 17 Violence and Genocide: Case Studies of the Belgian Congo and Indigenous Peoples in America and Australia Adam Hochschild, King Leopolds Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa (Pan Books, 2006) pp 6 - 18 and 115 - 166. Adam Jones, Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction (Routledge, 2006), pp 42 -44 and 65 - 101 Primary Documents Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness Patrick Brantlinger, Dark Vanishings: Discourse on the Extinction of Primitive Races, 1800 - 1930 (Cornell University Press, 2003) pp 1 - 68 and 164 - 201 Richard Gott, Britains Empire: Resistance, Repression and Revolt (Verso, 2011) pp 14 - 36, 95 - 121, 169 - 183 Frantz Fanon, Wretched of the Earth (1965) M.K Gandhi, Hind Swaraj Thomas R. Metcalf, The New Cambridge History of India Vol. III: Ideologies of the Raj (Cambridge University Press, 2007) pp 1 - 113 C.A Bayly, The Birth of the Modern World, 1780 - 1914: Global Connections and Comparisons (Blackwell, 2004)pp 343 - 351 Primary Documents Lord Macaulays Minute on Education Bernard Cohn, Colonialism and its Forms of Knowledge: The British in India (Princeton University Press, 1996) Nicholas Dirks, Castes of Mind: Colonialism and the Making of Modern India (Princeton University Press, 2001) Susan Bayly, Caste, Society and Politics in India from the Eighteenth Century to the Modern Age (Cambridge University Press, 1999) Piers Brendon, The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781 - 1997 (Vintage Books, 2008) pp 61 - 95 Judith M. Brown, Global South Asians: Introducing the Modern Diaspora (Cambridge University Press, 2006) pp 9 - 23 and 29 - 39 A Alam, Imperialism and Science in Race and Class Vol. 19, 1978, pp 239 - 251 Michael Adas, Machines as the Measure of Men: Science, Technology, and Ideologies of Western Dominance (Cornell University Press, 1989) pp 129 - 266 Drayton, R 1995, 'Science and the European Empires' Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, Vol. 23, pp. 503-510.

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Empire and Racism

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Responses to Colonialism

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Christianity, Commerce and Civilisation: Ideologies of Empire

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Continuity and Change: Colonial Identities in British India

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Settler Colonies, Migration, and Indentured Labour

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Technology, Science and Empire

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Culture and Imperialism John M. Mackenzie, Imperialism and Popular Culture (Studies in Imperialism) (Manchester University Press, 1987) pp 113 - 140 Eric J. Hobsbawm, The Age of Empire, 1875 - 1914 (Vintage Books, 1989) pp 219 - 242 Edward Said, Culture and Imperialism (Vintage Books, 1994) pp 97 - 111

Module 5: Theoretical Overview

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25 - 26 Theories of Imperialism Joseph A. Schumpter, The Sociology of Imperialism (1918) V.I Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism (1916) John Hobson, Imperialism (1902) Benjamin J. Cohen, The Question of Imperialism: The Political Economy of Dominance and Dependence (Basic Books, 1973) Wolfgang J. Mommsen, Theories of Imperialism (University of Chicago Press, 1982) Patrick Wolfe, History and Imperialism: A Century of Theory, from Marx to Postcolonialism, The American Historical Review, Vol. 102, No. 2 (1997), pp 388 - 420

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