HIST 456 - Connections beyond Colonialism: Global Histories of the Global South

FC SSCI CD WADV

4 credits
This seminar considers how recent transnational histories of the global south have sought to complicate conventional understandings of European imperialism. How did Asians and Africans adapt to the worldwide spread of colonial-era capitalism? How did regional actors use colonial industrial infrastructures of steam travel and print to forge vernacular forms of cross-cultural cosmopolitanism? What were the origins and aspirations of anticolonial projects like Pan-Asianism, Pan-Africanism, and Pan-Islamism? The course grapples with these questions by turning to works of history, anthropology, literature, and film. Along the way, it addresses broader methodological debates in the expanding subfields of global and international history.