/ This advanced course introduces students to a wide range of texts, methodologies, and theories that deals with the studies of empires and the making of the modern world. For centuries, modern empires carved up the world into various territorial forms whose colonial enterprises had complicated global world orders and generated tension that continued to shape our postcolonial presence. Drawing on comparative case studies across geographies including the Americas, Asia, and Africa, this course explores themes central to empire studies: military conquests and settler colonialism; religious conversion, proselytization, and practices; slavery, ethnic cleansing, and the civilizing missions; globalization, imperial networks, and overseas empire building; and reactions to colonization, independence movements, and decolonization. Addressing these themes, this course examines closely the meanings and impacts of imperial politics and anti-colonial resistance as world-historical phenomena integral to a humanist and ethical approach to the pursuit of global peace and justice. Alternate years.
Grade Basis: Letter Grade
Credits: 4.0
