HIS 627 - THE BRITISH EMPIRE, 1763-1914

College of Arts & Sciences

Credits: 3

This course provides graduate students with a detailed overview of several broad themes pertaining to the history of the British empire, 1763-1914: the first imperial crisis, slavery and the slave trade, race as a category of imperial knowledge/power, women’s emancipation and the problem of empire, the post-colonial challenge to the ‘imperial mindset,’ and the intensification of imperial awareness within Britain itself, c. 1880-1914.

Prerequisite(s):
Prereq: Permission of the instructor.