HIST 3630 - Empires in the Modern World

3 Credit Hours
Description
This course explores the interactive history of empires, both horizontally among great powers and vertically between rulers and subjects, since the sixteenth century. These interactions shaped, restructured, and dissolved supposedly monolithic empires. We will interrogate the cross-cultural encounters of imperial expansion; the raced and gendered nature of imperial hierarchies, identities, and imaginaries; the lived experience of colonial rule; the interplay of world economy, world war, and anticolonial projects for reform, revival, and revolution in the â€œdecline and fallâ€ of empire; and the uneven and contradictory transition from an â€œimperialâ€ to an â€œinternationalâ€ world order.