Syllabus
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Course Code: HIS-E-10 Course Name: Imperialism & Colonialism: Historical Investigations |
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| MODULE NO / UNIT | COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE | NOTES |
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| 1 | Understanding Imperialism and Colonialism: Meanings and Nature of Distinction between Colonialism and Imperialism; Mercantilism, Colonialism and Imperialism; Mercantilism and the Crown: Centralization; Colonialism and Slavery – The Plantation System | |
| 2 | The Imperial Ideology: Growth of Imperial Ideas in Spain, France and Britain; The ‘Discovery’ of America – Rights of the Conquest and ‘Res Nullius’; Commerce, Wealth and War – 17th and 18th Century Commentators – Hugo Grotius, Adam Smith, Edmund Burke, Denis Diderot | |
| 3 | Nationalism and Imperialism: The French Revolution, Napoleonic Imperialism and its ‘Reception’ in Germany – Immanuel Kant, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, W.F.G. Hegel; Race, Culture and ‘Nationalism’ – Imperial Dimensions; Imperial Ideology in the Late 18th & 19th Century: Alexis de Tocqueville and John Stuart Mill; The Century of Nationalism? | |
| 4 | Imperialism, Capitalism and Marxism: Imperial Ideology in the 20th Century; Imperialism and Finance Capital – J.A. Hobson, Rudolf Hilferding, V.I. Lenin and Rosa Luxemburg; The ‘Informal Empire; Imperialism: A Viable Political Category? Debate on ‘Communist Imperialism’ | |
