This course is available on the BA in History, BSc in Economic History and Geography, BSc in Government and History, BSc in International Relations and History and BSc in Politics and History. This course is available as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students.
This course is available on the BA in History, BSc in Economic History and Geography, BSc in Government and History, BSc in International Relations and History and BSc in Politics and History. This course is available as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students.
Lectures will be online.The School aims to run in-person classes, subject to circumstances, with some online provision if and where necessary.There will be a reading week in the Michaelmas and the Lent Terms.
Students will be expected to produce 2 essays in the MT and LT. A mock exam may also be offered.
C19th: Padraic Scanlan, Slave Empire: How Slavery Made Modern Britain (2020); Benjamin Bowser and Aime Charles-Nicholas, The Psychological Legacy of Slavery: Essays in Trauma, Healing and the Living Past (2021) esp chs 7 & 8; Hazel V Carby, Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands (Verso 2019); David Olusoga, Black and British: A forgotten History (2016) ; John Darwin, The British Empire Project: The Rise and Fall of the British World System, 1830-1970 ( 2010); Ronald Hyam, Understanding the British Empire (2010); John Newsinger, The blood never dried: A people?s history of the British Empire (Bookmark Publications 2006); Bill Schwarz, The White Man's World: Memories of Empire (2012); Shashi Tharoor, Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India (Penguin, 2018); P D Morgan; S Hawkins (ed) The Black Experience and the Empire (OUP, 2004); Ashley Jackson & and David Tomkins, Illustrating Empire: A Visual History of British Imperialism ( 2011); James Belich, The Settler Revolution and the Rise of the Anglo-world (OUP, 2011); Christian H?gsbjerg , Robert Hughes, Fatal Shore: History of the Transportation of Convicts to Australia, 1787-1868 (Vintage Books, 2003); Gareth Atkins, Shinjini Das & Brian Murray, The Bible, Race and Empire in the Long C19th (2020); Berny S?be, Bertrand Taithe, Peter Yeandle Max Jones (eds) Decolonising Imperial Heroes (2018);?? Mary Kingsley, Travels in West Africa (National Geographic adventure classics, 2002 edn) J G Farrell, The Siege of Krishapur 1857 (Pheonix Paperback, 2002 edn) ? C20th: Priyamvada Gopal, Insurgent Empire: Anticolonial Reistance and British Dissent (2020);Scott Ellsworth, The World Beneath Their Feet: the race to conquer the Himalayas (John Murray 2020);? Ronald Hyam, Britain's Declining Empire (2014);? Prasenjit Duara (ed) Decolonization: Perspectives from then and now (2004); Peter Clarke, Hope and Glory: Britain 1900-2000 (CUP, 2004);? C. L. R. James in Imperial Britain,( 2014);Jomo Kenyatta, Facing Mount Kenya (Heinemann African Writers Series, 1979 edn); David Anderson, History of the Hanged (2005); George Laming, Castle of my skin (Penguin Modern Classic, 2017edn) ; Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun ( 2017); Petina Gappah, An Elegy for Easterly & The Book of Memory; Simon Winchester, Outposts: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire, (Penguin, 2002 edn); Jane Gourdam, Old Filth (Failed in London, try Hong Kong) (Hachette Digital, 2014 edn); Nadifa Mohamed, The Orchard of the Lost Souls (2016) The Fortune Men (2021); Joanna Lewis, Women of the Somali Diaspora (2021); Lipika Pelman: Passing: An Alternative History of Identity (2021);? Hazel V Carby, Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands (2019); Mark Leopold, Amin (2021).
Exam (100%, duration: 3 hours) in the summer exam period.