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Date Lecture Title Lecture Number Title Readings Assignments Final Project Target Dates

25-Aug 1 Introduction Peter Stearns, Why Study History? (1998)

27-Aug 2 What is Imperialism?

Levine, 1-38

Kathleen Wilson, Old Imperialisms and New Imperial Histories: Rethinking the History of the Present, Radical History Review 95 (2006): 211-34

Familiarize yourself with the H477 website, and pay special attention to the syllabus and course policies.

3-Sep 3 The American Borderlands

Levine, 39-69

Reading Packet for The Treaty of Shackamaxon & Its Representation in British and American Art: Tamanend, Penn, and the Politics of Memory (below)

Jared van Duinen, The Borderlands of the British World, Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History 15, no. 1 (2014)

Arrive in class with written answers to the reading guide questions for primary documents.

8-Sep 4 Scandal of Colonial Rule (1)

Epstein, Scandal of Colonial Rule, 1-89

Listen to the Practicing History Podcast Episode 2: Introducing Historiography

Begin compiling notes and responses to Scandal of Empire on the History Publication Report Worksheet.

10-Sep 5 Scandal of Colonial Rule (2) Epstein, Scandal of Colonial Rule, 90-183

Continue compiling notes and responses to Scandal of Empire on the History Publication Report Worksheet

15-Sep 6 Scandal of Colonial Rule (3) Epstein, Scandal of Colonial Rule, 184-279

Finish compiling notes and responses to Scandal of Empire on the History Publication Report Worksheet

17-Sep 7 Domesticity and Empire

Levine, 71-112

Brendan Kane, Introduction: Human Rights and the History of Violence in the Early British Empire, History 99, no, 336 (2014): 383-402

Complete a History Publication Report Worksheet for Kanes Introduction: Human Rights and the History of Violence in the Early British Empire.

22-Sep 8 Slavery and the Country House

Levine, 113-154

Dana Rabin, In a Country of Liberty?': Slavery, Villeinage and the Making of Whiteness in the Somerset Case (1772), History Workshop Journal 72 (2011): 5-29

David Eltis, A Brief Overview of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

Jason M. Kelly, Antislavery Movement, Britain, in The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest, ed. Immanuel Ness (Oxford: Blackwell, 2009), 200-5

Complete a History Publication Report Worksheet for Rabins In a Country of Liberty?': Slavery, Villeinage and the Making of Whiteness in the Somerset Case (1772).

The First Empire

Introduction

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24-Sep 9 Urban Landscape and Imperial Rule

Richard Harris and Robert Lewis, A happy confluence of planning and statistics: Bombay and Calcutta in the 1901 census, Planning Perspectives 28, no. 1 (2013): 125-138

Lawrence Vale, New Delhi: A Capital Designed for Empire, Architecture, Power and National Identity, 2nd ed. (Routledge, 2008), 104-13

Complete a History Publication Report Worksheet for Harris and Lewiss A happy confluence of planning and statistics: Bombay and Calcutta in the 1901 census.

29-Sep 10 What is Race? (online module, no class)Levine, 155-205

What is Race? Readings

1-Oct 11 Response Paper 1 Due (no class)

Your response paper is due on 1 October 2014 at 11:59 pm. Graduate students will submit their paper as a blog post.

6-Oct 12 Scramble for EmpireWatch video lecture on Britains Scramble for Africa

Readings Packet: Scramble for Empire

Come to class prepared to discuss the primary documents in detail. Be sure that you have thoroughly researched the backgrounds of the assigned writers by using the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

8-Oct 13 Responses to Empire

James Africanus B. Horton, West African Countries and Peoples (1868), 273-77.

Rudyard Kipling, The White Mans Burden: The United States and The Philippine Islands (1899)

Zaria Whippings, African Times and Orient Review 1, no 2 (1912): 37-38.Edmund Dene Morel, The Black Mans Burden [1903] (New York, B.W. Huebsch, 1920), 232-41

Hubert Harrison, The Black Mans Burden (A Reply to Rudyard Kipling), from When Africa Awakes (New York, 1920)

Benjamin Talton, African Resistance to Colonial Rule, Africana Age: African & African Diasporan Transformations in the 20th Century.

Come to class prepared to discuss the primary documents in detail. Be sure that you have thoroughly researched the backgrounds of the assigned writers by using the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography as well as researched the historical context for each document. This may require research into the various databases available through the IUPUI Library.

13-Oct 14 Podcasting for Beginners

Levine, 206-34

Clare Midgley, Mary Carpenter and the Brahmo Samaj of India: a Transnational Perspective on Social Reform in the Age of Empire. Women's History Review 22, no. 3 (2013): 363-385

Consult the Topic List for projects that might be interesting to you for your final podcast assignment.

15-Oct 15 Empire and the World Wars

Frederick Cooper, Reconstructing Empire in British and French Africa, Past and Present, 210, suppl. 6 (2011) : 196-210.

Ashley Jackson, The Empire/Commonwealth and the Second World War, The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs 100, no. 412 (2011): 65-78

Choose a topic for your final podcast assignment and begin compiling primary and secondary sources. Submit your topic to the topic spreadsheet.

Topic Chosen

22-Oct 16 Resistance

Resistance Reading Packet

Jenny Coleman, The Inferior Sex in the Dominant Race: Feminist Subversions or Imperial Apologies?, Feminist Review 102 (2012): 62-78

Complete a History Publication Report Worksheet for Colemans The Inferior Sex in the Dominant Race: Feminist Subversions or Imperial Apologies?

Consult How to Develop a Research Question Flowcharts

27-Oct 17 Decolonization

Decolonization Reading Packet

Martin Thomas & Andrew Thompson, Empire and Globalisation: from High Imperialism to Decolonisation, The International History Review 36, no. 1 (2014): 142-170

29-Oct 18 The PostcolonyHilary Beckles, Britains Black Debt: Reparations for Caribbean Slavery and Native Genocide (Kingston: University of West Indies Press, 2013)

Complete a History Publication Report Worksheet for Britains Black Debt: Reparations for Caribbean Slavery and Native Genocide

The Second Empire

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3-Nov 19 Podcasting Workshop

Your response paper is due on 3 November 2014 at 11:59 pm. Graduate students will not complete a response paper for this assignment.

Confirm research question with professor

5-Nov 20 Theories of Development

Andre Gunder Frank, The Development of Underdevelopment, Monthly Review (September 1966).

Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations?, Foreign Affairs 72, no. 3 (1993): 22-49

10-Nov 21 The Great Divergence

Kenneth Pomeranz, Beyond the East-West Binary: Resituating Development Paths in the Eighteenth-Century World, The Journal of Asian Studies 61, no. 2 (2002): 539-590 Peer Vries, Are Coal and Colonies Really Crucial? Kenneth Pomeranz and the Great Divergence, Journal of World History 12, no 2 (2001): 407-46

Peer Vries, The California School and Beyond: How to Study the Great Divergence?, History Compass 8, no. 7 (2010): 730751

Undergraduates complete a History Publication Report Worksheet for Pomeranzs Beyond the East-West Binary. Be sure to reference the other readings in your report.

12-Nov 22 Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not (1)Parthasarathi, Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not, 1-88

Begin compiling notes and responses to Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not on the History Publication Report Worksheet.

Schedule Podcast Recording Dates and Equipment

17-Nov 23 Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not (2)Parthasarathi, Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not, 89-184

Continue compiling notes and responses to Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not on the History Publication Report Worksheet

19-Nov 24 Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not (3)Parthasarathi, Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not, 185-269

Finish compiling notes and responses to Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not on the History Publication Report Worksheet

24-Nov 25 Capital in the 21st Century

Niall Ferguson, The 6 Killer Apps of Prosperity, TED Talks.

Pankaj Mishra, Watch this Man, London Review of Books 33, no. 21 (3 November 2011): 10-12

Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-first Century (Boston: Harvard University Press, 2014), introduction

David Harvey, Notes Towards a Theory of Uneven Geographical Development, in Spaces of Global Capitalism (London: Verso, 2006), 69-116

Draft of Podcast Script Complete

1-Dec 26 Final Project Review Session Podcast Design

Graduate students will write a blog post which summarizes the debates about the Great Divergence.

3-Dec 27 Podcast Design (no class) Podcast Design

8-Dec 28 Podcast Design (no class) Podcast Design

10-Dec 29 Podcast Workshop Podcast WorkshopYour Extra Credit Book Review of the Afterlife of Empire is due on 10 December 2014 at 11:59 pm

15-Dec Conclusions 30 Conclusions Podcasts Due Podcast Complete

The Great Divergence