Week 4. Imperialism and Resistance
Not only did Imperialism help spark the world wars, but it left a legacy of deep animosity toward the West and Japan and resulted in global economic inequalities that persist today.
READING ONE: Read Perry text, chapter 26, 629-641 (New Imperialism) and (European Domination of Asia: India). How did industrialization change European states' global relations? How do historians explain the 19th century shift of European policies to imperialist domination?
Ms. Gerst made this Google Slides for the Resistance in India lesson (slides 1-6). We will discuss whether the events of 1847 should be described as the Sepoy Mutiny or the Great Rebellion or something else? It contains enrichment options as well.
Amritsar Massacre 1919
READING TWO: Read Perry text, 641-646 (Domination of Asia: China, Japan and Ottoman Empire). How did industrialization change European states' relations with Asia and the Middle East? How did China endure and resist imperialism while Japan pushed the Americans back to become an imperial power themselves (e.g. Russia, China, Korea, Taiwan)?
Ms. Gerst made these Google Slides on Chinese resistance and Japanese modernization and imperialism. We will focus on the Opium Wars and the Boxer Rebellion for China. We will focus on modernization for Japan, ending in their own imperialist path.
CLICK HERE TO ACCESS (SLIDES ONLY -USE THIS FOR EMBEDDED J. GREEN VIDEOS)
If you want to look more at the Ottoman Empire (which we will explore more in depth during week three of this unit), reaction and resistance there is addressed in John Green's video below:
READING THREE: Read 647-650 (Scramble for Africa) versus Professor Talton’s NYPL article and the virtual field trip to the New York Public Library for its exhibit on African Resistance to Colonial Rule (look closely, spend time!). How did industrialization change European states' relations with Africa? How does Talton’s argument of a complex and strategic African Resistance compete with Perry’s claim that Africa was “quickly divided”?
YOUR ASYNCHRONOUS VIRTUAL FIELD TRIP
Week 5. "Worldly" War I
READING ONE: Often scholars debate the inevitability or changeability of the trajectory to war breaking out in Europe based on a litany of "causes" such as nationalism, imperialism, militarism, alliances, and Pan-Slavism. Read Perry, chapter 28, pages 685-699 and the Marshall handout, how do Marshall and Perry deal with this question?
READING TWO: Read more closely about the events of WWI in Perry, pages 697-706, as well as the devastating irrationality of the war in the Craig handout, entitled The Political Leader as Strategist. How do the inventions of the Second Industrial Revolution apply with devastating irrationality (get it? from late Modernity) in the First World War?
5 minute clip from Stanley Kubrick's Paths of Glory (Trench Warfare)
People's Century (1914): The Killing Fields (50 minutes)
ASYNCHRONOUS LESSON: There are several resources below on the "World(ly) War I" that it has taken years for us to amass. Spend time on Scholastic's video field trips on the Global Impact of WWI and pick some of non-Western vantage points of the war: (1) Eastern European; (2) African; (3) Turkey and the Arab World; (4) Japan. How do these resources reshape your mental narrative of the war itself, recasting it as a more "world(ly) war?"
Eastern European perspective (4 min, 50 s)
African perspective (3 min, 35 s)
Turkey and the Arab World perspective (2 min, 41 s)
Japan in WWI (3 min, 53s)
Consider also these "virtual exhibitions," some of which explicitly shift focus to the Indian Army.
- this BBC article on reclaiming the contributions of Indian veterans of World War I.
- the British Library's exhibit entitled Race, Empire, and Colonial Troops
- the National Archives Interactive Map on the Global War
- the Sikh Museum, including the Indian Army military hospitals in Brighton
WEEK 6. WWI Lessons & A Flawed Peace
READING ONE: Read the New Yorker handout, The Big One by Adam Gopnik. What "turning points" and "lessons" does Gopnik capture in his piece as he reviews the most recent scholarship on WWI in terms of battle strategy, trench warfare, and casualties?
READING TWO: Read Perry, chapter 28, page 707-712, New Yorker article on WWI end/armistice, and re-review the pages related to WWI and imperialism between pages 641 (India), 644 (Japan), Ottoman Empire (644-645), and the legacy of imperialism (653-654). What were the strengths and what were the limitations of the peace settlements ending WWI for Western Europe? Eastern Europe? The imperialized zone? How has that impacted the world today?
Aftermath of WWI (A Flawed Peace at Versailles)
Arabia after WWI
Ottoman Collapse
WEEK 7. THE EU TODAY CONTINUES TO DEAL WITH THE CONSEQUENCES OF IMPERIALISM AND THE FLAWED PEACE
READING ONE: Read pages 864-876 on Muslim Immigration and the Resurgence of Anti-Semitism; Culture Clash, and Terrorism and War; and Our Global Age. Also, read this article on a 50-year old British anti-immigration speech that followed Commonwealth immigration. How did post-war migration to Europe from Asia and Africa begin? In light of its imperialist past, how may Europe make peace with descendants migrating there today? What are the reasons for the surge of anti-Semitism in contemporary Europe? What are the motivations and goals of the "Muslim radical minority"? How should Europe respond to anti-Semitism and Islamophobia?
EU's post-colonial relationship with Africa
Exhibit Traces Post-Colonial Migration
How does British imperialism in India affect negotiations today?
Democracy, Authoritarian Capitalism and China
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