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Imperialism and Independence: CAS HI342 Spring 2016 Betty Anderson ([email protected]) CAS B18A MWF: 11:00-12:00 Office: Room 306, 226 Bay State Road Telephone: (617)353-8302 Office Hours: M 12:00-2:00, W 1:30-3:30, F 3:00-4:00, and by appointment This lecture course examines 19th and 20th century imperialist and independence movements, focusing on the colonial projects in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. The goal of the course is to find the common themes (decolonization, the Cold War, ideologies like communism and socialism) that bridge the regions of the world and present a comparison between their political experiences. The course begins with an overview of the European and American revolutions and ideologies that gave birth to imperialist ideas and practices. It transitions to a study of the ways in which people outside these areas initially incorporated Western ideas into their own agendas of modernity and then into the actions they took to destroy the colonial projects and establish their own independent political and ideological systems. The course analyzes the roles nationalism, liberalism, communism, socialism, and Cold War played in these independence movements. The students are required to complete all the readings assigned and take a mid-term and a final. In these exams, the students will be tested not only on their knowledge of historical events but they must be able to analyze the different historical developments and changes taking place during the period of time covered by the course. Answers must incorporate information gleaned from the class lectures, the assigned readings, and the discussions. The students will also write 2 five-page papers choosing from a list of questions prepared by the professor. The papers must be turned in on the date specified below; otherwise it will lose 1/3 a grade for each day it is late. Plagiarism will be punished per the guidelines set out in the CAS Academic Conduct Code (http://www.bu.edu/cas/academics/programs/conductcode.html). In addition to the written work, discussions will take place every week concerning the assigned readings. On these days, the students must arrive in class prepared to analyze and contribute to the topics proposed in order to receive full credit for participation. Books: Chinua Achebe, Man of the People. London: Pearson UK. Alaa Al Aswany, The Yacoubian Building,Harper Publishers Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness. New York: W.W. Norton & Co. H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon’s Mines. New York: Penguin. Rudyard Kipling, Kim. New York: Penguin. Naguib Mahfouz, Miramar New York: Knopf Doubleday, 1993. (All other articles are on the Web: http://people.bu.edu/banderso/hi342 ) Requirements: 1 mid-term worth 25% of the grade 2 five-page papers worth 30% of the grade 1 final exam worth 25% of the grade Class participation worth 20% of the grade Week 1 (January 20 and 22) - Topics: European Exploration and Early Colonialism Latin America and the Atlantic Slave Trade - Reading: Robert B. Marks, The Origins of the Modern World (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2006), pp. 119, 43-66, and 155-162. Week 2 (January 25, 27, and 29) - Topics: Glorious, French, and Industrial Revolutions - Reading: Rudyard Kipling, Kim Week 3 (February 1, 3, and 5) - Topics: European Philosophies of Imperialism Britain and France in the Middle East and Africa - Readings: 1) Rudyard Kipling, “The White Man's Burden,” European Imperialism, 1830-1930 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1999), pp. 58-59. 2) Zeynep Celik, "Displaying the Orient" and Anne McClintock, "Advertising the Empire," European Imperialism, 1830-1930 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1999), pp. 141-157. 3) Judy Mabro, “Introduction,” Veiled Half-Truths (London: I.B. Tauris, 1991), pp. 1-50. Week 4 (February 8, 10, and 12) - Topics: American Imperialism Manifest Destiny, the Spanish-American War, and Missionary Work - Readings: 1) Amy Kaplan, “Birth of an Empire,” PMLA, vol. 114, no. 5(October 1999): pp. 1068-1079. 2) Robert J. Allison, "Americans and the Muslim World - First Encounters," in The Middle East and the United States, ed. David W. Lesch (Westview Press, 2013), pp. 297-308. 3) William Hutchison, “Introduction” and “’Civilizing’: From Necessity to Virtue,” Errand to the World: American Protestant Thought and Foreign Missions (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987), pp. 141. 4) Stuart Creighton Miller, “American Imperialism: Aberration or Historical Continuity?” Benevolent Assimilation’: The American Conquest of the Philippines, 1899-1903 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982), pp. 1-12. First Paper Due: Friday, February 12, 5:00 pm Week 5 (Tuesday, February 16, 17, and 19) - Topics: Scramble for Africa Settler and Administrative Colonies - Reading: H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon’s Mines Week 6 (February 22, 24, and 26) - Topics: Westernizing Reform Programs in the Middle East Egypt, the Ottoman Empire and European Intervention in Lebanon - Reading: Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness Week 7 (February 29. No class on March 2 and 4) Guest speaker on Monday, February 29: TBA TAKE-HOME MID-TERM EXAMINATION DUE Friday, March 4, 2015 via email SPRING BREAK, March 5-13 Week 8 (March 14, 16, and 18) - Topics: National Reactions Rise of National Identities - Readings: 1) Hans van de Ven, "The Onrush of Modern Globalization in China," edited A.G. Hopkins, Globalization in World History (W.W. Norton, 2002), pp. 167-195. 2) Betty S. Anderson, A History of the Modern Middle East: Rulers, Rebels and Rogues (Stanford, 2016), pp. 107-198. 3) Nadia Farag, "Progress and Western Science," Al-Muqtataf 1876-1900: A Study of the Influence of Victorian Thought on Modern Arab Thought. Ph.D. diss., St. Antony’s College, Oxford, 1969, pp. 141152. Week 9 (March 21, 23, and 25) - Topics: World Wars I and II European Conquest of the Middle East and Japanese Imperialism in Asia - Readings: 1) Benedict Anderson, “Introduction,” Imagined Communities (London: Verso Books, 1991), pp. 1-7, 118-140. 2) Thongchai Winichakul. “The Coming of a New Geography,” Siam Mapped (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1994), pp. 37-61. 3) Robert Thomas Tierney, “Introduction,” Tropics of Savagery: The Culture of Japanese Empire in Comparative Frame (University of California Press, 2010), pp. 1-37. 4) Takashi Fujitani, "Inventing, forgetting, Remembering: Toward a Historical Ethnography of the Nation-State," Cultural Nationalism in East Asia (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), pp. 77106. Week 10 (March 28 and 30 and April 1) - Topics: Revolutionary Movements Socialism, Communism, and Revolutions in Latin America - Readings: 1) Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, "Manifesto of the Communist Party." Sources of World Civilization (New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2000), pp. 254-271. 2) V.I. Lenin, "What Is to Be Done?" and "State and Revolution." Sources of World Civilization (New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2000), pp. 3335-347. 3) Mao Zedong, Mao on Peasant Movements. 4) Che Guevara, “Notes for the Study of the Ideology of the Cuban Revolution,” Che: Selected Works of Ernest Guevara (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1969), pp. 48-56. 5) Fidel Castro, “Manifesto No. 1 to the People of Cuba.” Revolutionary Struggle (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1972), pp. 259-271. Week 11 (April 4, 6, and 8) - Topics: Independence India and the Middle East - Readings: 1) Naguib Mahfouz, Miramar 2) Mahatma Gandhi, "Democracy and the People," All Men Are Brothers (UNESCO, 1960), pp. 138-159. 3) Jawaharlal Nehru, “Selections,” Jawaharlal Nehru: An Anthology (Oxford, 1980), pp. 6-33, 103-105, 328-331. 4) Gamal Abdul Nasser, “Selections,” Egypt’s Liberation: The Philosophy of the Revolution (Washington, DC: Public Affairs Press, 1955), pp. 43-54. 5) Kwame Nkrumah, “Selections,” Africa Must Unite (Heineman, 1964), pp. 32-49, 132-140. Week 12 (April 11, 13, and 15) - Topics: Independence Africa - Readings: 1) Chinua Achebe, Man of the People. 2) Yusuf al-Qaid, War in the Land of Egypt (Interlink Books, 1998), pp. 5-55. 3) Nelson Mandela. Excerpts, Long Walk to Freedom (Abacus, 1995), pp. 313-348, 575-580, 640-643. 4) Steve Biko, “The Definition of Black Consciousness," Steve Biko - I Write What I Like (Harper & Row, 1978), pp. 48-72. Second Paper Due: Friday, April 15, 5:00 pm Week 13 (Wednesday, April 20 and 22) - Topics: 1960s Guerrilla Movements and Military Coups Algerian Revolution, Vietnam War, and African Military Coups - Readings: 1) Ali al-Aswany, Yacoubian Building. 2) Carrie Rosefsky Wickham, “The Call to God,” Mobilizing Islam (Columbia University Press, 2002), pp. 119-149. Week 14 (April 25, 27, and 29) - Topics: State Legitimacy Economics, Society, and Religion FINAL: Wednesday, May 4: 12:30-2:30