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Fall semester seminar & topic in fall 2008 Winter/spring short-term seminars
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Short-term seminars at the Newberry in winter/spring 2008 Africa and Europe to 1919 Peter Blasenheim, History, Colorado College Block 8: April 21 - May 14, 2008 |
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This course broadly surveys African history from the earliest record to the beginnings of modern African politics after World War I. Our approach will be both thematic and chronological. Topics will include the methodological questions posed by the study of history from unwritten sources; the African traditional state across time and place, with special emphasis on the Kingdom of Kongo; slavery and slave trade controversies; Africa and Europe, with special emphasis on Portugal and Great Britain; the Scramble for Africa and its historiography; Africa’s response to the European presence in terms of collaboration, resistance and the emergence of a “Europeanized” African elite in the 19th and early 20th centuries. |
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In keeping with its designation as a Writing Intensive class, the course will require three short essays, including a research paper of modest length that students will write and then carefully revise in close collaboration with their classmates and their instructor. The Newberry Library’s vast holdings on Portuguese and British imperial expansion make the library an ideal venue for such a research project. |
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