Tuesday through Friday, February 17-20
Presidents’ Day, Monday, 2/16
Guest lectures in art history with Ellen Zieselman, retired curator from the New Mexico Art Museum during the long periods (Periods 6 & 1 on Tuesday, 2/17, and Period 4 on Wednesday, 2/18).
Parents' Drop-in Day, Friday, 2/20.
Independent research topic proposals DUE, Friday, 2/20.
Day 1: Art History and World History.
In-class: Guest lecture with Ellen Zieselman, retired curator from the New Mexico Art Museum on topics in art history related to the ongoing studies of world history.
Homework: Please read “Mass Politics and
Imperial Domination: Democracy and the New Imperialism, 1870-1914,” in The
West in the World, eds. Sherman/Salisbury, pp. 609-623, take notes on the following key terms, and develop an answer to the related questions.
Key Terms: the new
imperialism, the scramble for Africa, the Boer War, the Opium Wars, the Taiping
Rebellion, the Meiji Restoration and the Russo-Japanese War.
Key question#1: What are the causes for the rise of imperialism during this period?
Key question#2: What
are the legacies of 19th-century European imperialism for both Western and
non-Western peoples?
Key question#3: How did peoples in Africa, the Middle East and Asia
respond to the rise of a new wave of European imperialism in the late 19th
century?
Day 2: Western Imperial Domination.
In-class: Chronicle current events, and discuss the homework reading and questions on the rise of European imperialism.
Homework: Read the primary and secondary source handouts (see the selected documents below), annotate the primary sources with the SOAPSTONE framework of analysis, identify the arguments and evidence of the secondary sources, and use these source to build your notes on the leading questions, i.e., the causes and effects of the new imperialism and how the non-Western world responded to it.
Primary source #1: Friedrich Fabri, "Does Germany Need Colonies?".
Primary source #2: Rudyard Kipling, "The White Man's Burden".
Primary source #4: Gandhi, "Facing the British in India".
Secondary source#1: Eric J. Hobsbawm, "The Age of Empire".
Secondary source #2: Carlton J. H. Hayes, "Imperialism as a Nationalistic Phenomenon".
Secondary source #5: Pankaj Mishra, "From the Ruins of Empire", Prologue.
Day 2: The Responses of the Non-Western World to Imperialism.
In-class: Discuss the homework reading, primary sources and secondary source arguments and evidence on European imperialism and non-western responses to imperialism.
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