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was not inevitable but achieved through anti-colonial struggle. Discuss.
eventual economic recovery.
ideologies of “civilisation”, racism and racial difference to justify their colonial expansion during
the period of High Imperialism, c. 1850-1914.
1. Discuss reasons for the increase in global migration between c. 1850 and 1940.
Recommended Reading
a. McKeown, Adam. “Global Migration, 1846-1940”, Journal of World History 15, no. 2 (2004): 155-189. [on eFundi]
b. McKeown, Adam. “Chinese Emigration in Global Context, 1850-1940”, Journal of Global History 5, no. 1 (2010): 95-124. [on eFundi]
c. Trimmer, Tiffany and Patrick Manning. Migration in World History, 2nd edn (London and New York: Routledge, 2013), pp. 286-312. [on eFundi]
d. Hoerder, Dirk. Cultures in Contact: World Migrations in the Second Millennium (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002), pp. 367-404. [on eFundi]. For Indian Migration and Indenture.
e. Fisher, Michael H. Migration: A World History (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014). [eBook available].
Urban Society
1. What challenges did the working classes face to becoming involved in politics across Europe in the nineteenth century?
2. How did the process work to unite citizens at the end of the 19th century, creating what we think of as “the masses,” or “the people?”
3. What connections did people like Chadwick and Jack London make between industrialization and daily life for people in the cities?
Discuss reasons for the increase in global migration between c. 1850 and 1940. Recommended Reading
a. McKeown, Adam. “Global Migration, 1846-1940”, Journal of World History 15, no. 2 (2004): 155- 189. [on eFundi]
b. McKeown, Adam. “Chinese Emigration in Global Context, 1850-1940”, Journal of Global History 5, no. 1 (2010): 95-124. [on eFundi]
c. Trimmer, Tiffany and Patrick Manning. Migration in World History, 2nd edn (London and New York: Routledge, 2013), pp. 286-312. [on eFundi]
d. Hoerder, Dirk. Cultures in Contact: World Migrations in the Second Millennium (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002), pp. 367-404. [on eFundi]. For Indian Migration and Indenture.
e. Fisher, Michael H. Migration: A World History (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014). [eBook available].
Explain why the First World War was a global conflict. Recommended Reading
a. Gerwarth, R. and E. Manela. “The Great War as a Global War: Imperial Conflict and the Reconfiguration of World Order, 1911-1923”, Diplomatic History 38, no. 4 (30 Jul 2014): 786-800. [on eFundi].
b. Morrow, J.H. The Great War: An Imperial History (New York: Routledge, 2004). [eBook available]
c. Mulligan, William. “The First World War in a Global Age”, European History Quarterly 46, no. 2 (2016): 311-326. [on eFundi]
d. Strachan, Hew. “The First World War as a Global War”, First World War Studies 1, no. 1 (2010): 3- 14. [on eFundi].
e. Winter, J. and Prost, A. The Great War in History: Debates and Controversies, 1914 to the Present (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005). [eBook available]
6. Discuss the causes that led to the beginning of the Cold War from 1945, including the ideological
conflict between both the United States and the Soviet Union, the emergence of nuclear
weapons, and the fear of communism in the United States.
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