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Required Texts


Amazon logo Cook, Scott. Colonial Encounters in the Age of High Imperialism. New York, NY: Talman, 1996. ISBN: 9781886746626.

Amazon logo Davis, Mike. Late Victorian Holocausts. New York, NY: Verso, 2002. ISBN: 9781859843826.

Amazon logo Oyono, Ferdinand. Houseboy. London, UK: Heinemann, 1960, and 1991. ISBN: 9780435905323.

Orwell, George. Burmese Days. New York, NY: Harper & brothers, 1934.

Greene, Graham. The Quiet American. New York, NY: Viking Press, 1956, and 1955.

Fanon, Franz. The Wretched of the Earth. New York, NY: Grove Press, 1963. ISBN: 080215083.



Readings by Session



LEC #TOPICSREADINGS
1Introduction
2The Decline of the Mercantilist Empires: From 1492 to the Early 19th Century
3Classic Theories of ImperialismKipling, Rudyard. "The White Man's Burden." In Verse. New York, NY: Doubleday, 1899, pp. 321-323.

Rose, J. Holland. The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1900. London, UK: Constable, 1905, pp. 508-512.

Hobson, John A. "Imperialism." In Imperialism: A Study. New York, NY: Harper-Collins, 1902, pp. 14-20.

Lenin, V. I. "Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism." In Selected Works. Moscow, Russia: Progress, 1975 (originally, 1916), pp. 36-51.

Orwell, George. "Shooting an Elephant." 1936. (A version of Orwell's essay, "Shooting an Elephant" is available from The University of Newcastle, Austrailia.)
The Foundation of "British" India, and the Roots of a New Imperialism
4From "John Company" to the Mutiny of 1857Amazon logo Harlow, Barbara, and Mia Carter. "Agreement between the Nabob Nudjum-Ul-Dowlah and the Company (1765)." Archives of Empire. Vol I. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003, pp. 25-7. ISBN: 9780822331643.

Amazon logo ———. "Documents from the impeachment of Warren Hastings (Hastings, Burke, Macauley)." Archives of Empire. Vol I. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003, pp. 131-166. ISBN: 9780822331643.
5Shifting Economic Rationales: From "Free Trade" to Opium WarsSmith, Adam. "America and the East Indies." In Wealth of Nations. 1776.

Amazon logo Harlow, Barbara, and Mia Carter. "Macauley's defense of the East India Company." Archives of Empire. Vol I. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003, pp. 54-8 and 95-106. ISBN: 9780822331643.
(New) Views of Exotic Lands and Exotic "Others"
6Charting New Terrain: Discovering "Darkest Africa"Amazon logo Harlow, Barbara, and Mia Carter. Archives of Empire. Vol II. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003, pp. 253-300. ISBN: 9780822331643. (Excerpts from Livingston and Stanley.)
7Ethnography and "Race Science"Amazon logo Harlow, Barbara, and Mia Carter. "Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man (1871)," "Robert Knox, The Races of Man (1850)," and "James Redfield, "Comparative Physiognomy" (1852)." In Archives of Empire, Vol II. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003. ISBN: 9780822331643, pp. 153-177. (Excerpts)
8Imperial and "Civilizing" MissionsAmazon logo Harlow, Barbara, and Mia Carter. "Macauley, "Minute on Indian Education" (1835)." In Archives of Empire. Vol I. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003, pp. 54-8, 95-106, and 227-238. ISBN: 9780822331643.

Amazon logo Cook, Scott. "Conflicting Ideologies in British India." In Colonial Encounters in the Age of High Imperialism. New York, NY: Talman, 1996, pp. 113-143. ISBN: 9781886746626.
9Discussion: Mike Davis, Late Victorian Holocausts (2002)Amazon logo Davis, Mike. Late Victorian Holocausts. New York, NY: Verso, 2002. ISBN: 9781859843826.
Partitioning the World
10From the Great Game to the Scramble for AfricaAmazon logo Cook, Scott. Colonial Encounters in the Age of High Imperialism. New York, NY: Talman, 1996, pp. 1-28. ISBN: 9781886746626.
11The Berlin Conference: Power-Politics and Map FantasiesAmazon logo Harlow, Barbara, and Mia Carter. Archives of Empire. Vol II. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003, pp. 13-81. ISBN: 9780822331643. (Documents and maps.)
Violence
12Colonial Warfare I: Conquest of Africa, Boer War, Boxer Uprising
13Genocides in the Belgian Congo and German South-West AfricaAmazon logo Cook, Scott. Colonial Encounters in the Age of High Imperialism. New York, NY: Talman, 1996, pp. 33-70. ISBN: 9781886746626.

Amazon logo Hochschild, Adam. King Leopold's Ghost. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1998, chapter 8. ISBN: 9780395759240. (Excerpt)

Amazon logo Cocker, Mark. "The Germans in Southwest" In Rivers of Blood, Rivers of Gold. New York, NY: Grove Press, 2000, pp. 269-370. ISBN: 9780802116666. (Excerpt)
Empire in the Metropole
14The Imperial Nation on DisplayCorbey, Raymond. "Ethnographic Showcases, 1870-1930." Cultural Anthropology 8, no. 3 (1993): 338-369.

Amazon logo Ramamurthy, Anandi. Imperial Persuaders. New York, NY: Pelgrave, 2003. ISBN: 9780719063794. (Excerpt)

Ciarlo, David. "Consuming Race, Envisioning Empire." PhD Dissertation, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2003. (Excerpt)
15Imperial Masculinities and FemininitiesJudd, Denis. "Gordon Of Khartoum: The Making Of An Imperial Martyr." In History Today 35 (1985): 19-25.

Amazon logo Cook, Scott. Colonial Encounters in the Age of High Imperialism. New York, NY: Talman, 1996, pp. 146-156. ISBN: 9781886746626.
Case Studies of Transformation in the Colonies
16Hawai'iAmazon logo Cook, Scott. "Islands of Manifest Destiny." In Colonial Encounters in the Age of High Imperialism. New York, NY: Talman, 1996, pp. 73-101. ISBN: 9781886746626.
17Discussion: Ferdinand Oyono, Houseboy Amazon logo Oyono, Ferdinand. Houseboy London. UK: Heinemann, 1991. ISBN: 9780435905323.
18Discussion: George Orwell, Burmese Days Orwell, George. Burmese Days. New York, NY: Harper & brothers, 1934.
Narratives (and Counter-Narratives) of Development
19The First World War
20Colonial Economics and "Modernization"Amazon logo Duignan, Peter, and L. H. Gann. "Economic Achievements of the Colonizers: An Assessment." In Colonialism in Africa 1870-1960. Edited by Peter Duignan and L. H. Gann. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1969. ISBN: 9780521073738.

Amazon logo Cooper, Frederick. "Colonizing Time." In Colonialism and Culture. Edited by Nicholas Dirks. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1992. ISBN: 9780472064342.
Twilight of Empire
21Empire in the Second World War
22A New World Order? From the Suez Crisis to VietnamGreene, Graham. The Quiet American. New York, NY: Viking Press, 1956, 1955.
Decolonization in Asia and Africa
23DecolonizationAmazon logo Cooper, Frederick. "The Dialectics of Decolonization: Nationalism and Labor Movements in Postwar French Africa." In Tensions of Empire. Edited by Frederick Cooper and Ann Laura Stoler. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1997, pp. 406-435. ISBN: 9780520206052.
24Independent Nationalism of the New ElitesAmazon logo Fanon, Franz. The Wretched of the Earth. New York, NY: Grove Press, 1965. ISBN: 9780802150837.
New Imperialisms?
25The Neo-Colonialism of "Globalization"?
26The New American Empire?Kaplan, Robert D. "Supremacy by Stealth." in The Atlantic Monthly 292, no. 1 (July/August 2003): 66-83.
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