*Leading
questions: How did different groups of people around the world respond to the rise of a
new wave of European imperialism in the late 19th century? How did people in the Egypt respond to Napoleon's efforts to introduce French secularism and republicanism? How did they respond to European attempts to reform their cultures, e.g., the practice of veiling women in the Islamic world? How did China, India, and the Ottoman Empire respond to European imperial and reformist efforts? How did Middle Eastern and Asian intellectuals respond to the Japanese defeat of Russia in 1905?
**Readings:
Roberts, "Asia in the European Age," in A Short History of the World, 382-394, and excerpts from Pankaj Mishra, From
the Ruins of Empire: The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia (handout).
***Key
Terms and Persons: The Russo-Japanese War (1905), Lord Curzon, Mohandas Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk), Sun Yat-sen, Mao Zedong, The Ch'ing (Qing) Dynasty, The Opium Wars,
Taiping Rebellion, The "Hundred Day Reforms," The Moghuls, The British Raj, The Indian Mutiny, The Tokugawa Shogunate,
Meiji Restoration, "Dutch Learning," The Ottoman Empire, the Young Ottomans & Young Turks, Tanzimat, and Jamal al-Din al-Afghani.
****Projects: IR: ONE-ON-ONE Meetings with instructor during long periods; students should PREPARE to discuss independent research and plan for the work ahead.
*****Document-based Question (DBQ)#3 WILL BE POSTPONED (TBA).
Day 1:
In-class: Secondary source: Begin reading and discussing the prologue to Mishra, The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia (handout).
***Key
Terms and Persons: The Russo-Japanese War (1905), Lord Curzon, Mohandas Gandhi, Jawaharlal, Nehru, Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk), and Sun Yat-sen.
Homework:
Secondary source: Finish reading the prologue (if necessary) and read "Egypt: 'The Beginning of a Series of Great Misfortunes," in: Mishra, The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia (handout), pp. 15-19.
Answer: prepare
written responses to the accompanying questions as the basis for
discussion (may be collected): How did people in the Egypt respond to Napoleon's efforts to introduce French secularism and republicanism?
***Key
Terms and Persons: Napoleon, the Mamluks, ulama (or ulema; look this term up), Muhammad, Dar al-Islam/Daral-Harb.
Day 2:
In-class: Discuss the impact of Napoleon and French reform efforts and how the ulama, as well as ordinary Egyptians responded in early 19th-century Egypt.
Homework: Read "Asia in the European Age: China," in Roberts, A Short History of the World, pp. 382-391, and excerpts from "Asia Subordinated: China and India," in: Mishra, The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia (handout), pp. 31-39.
***Key Terms and Persons: The Ch'ing (Qing) Dynasty, The "Opening of China," The Opium Wars,
Taiping Rebellion, The Boxer Rising (or Rebellion), The "Hundred Day Reforms," The Moghuls, The British Raj, Wahhabis, and The Indian Mutiny.
Day 3:
In-class: Discuss Chinese and Indian responses to European imperialism and its effects.
Homework: Read "The 'Sick Man' of Europe and His Dangerous Self-Therapy," in: Mishra, The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia (handout), pp. 60-73.
Answer: prepare written
responses to the accompanying questions as the basis for discussion
(may be collected): How did the Ottoman Empire respond to European imperialism and what were the effects?
***Key Terms and Persons: The Ottoman Empire, the Millet system, the Capitulations, the Young Ottomans & Young Turks, Tanzimat, and Jamal al-Din al-Afghani.
Day 4:
In-class: Discuss the responses of the Ottoman Empire to European imperialism and their effects; review for Reading quiz #4.
Homework: IR: read for independent projects.
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