Week of February 26

Welcome back from winter break. Buckle your seatbelts, we've got a lot of work to do.

Monday

• Read: none
• Video: Leopold II, part 2

Wednesday

• Review: Merriman 819-835
• Lecture: Scramble for Africa
• Workshop: map exercise

Friday

• Read: Merriman 835-852: handout
• Lecture: The British in Asia
• Workshop: discuss Burmese Days

next Tuesday

• Read: Merriman 852-859; handout
• Lecture: Mechanisms of Imperial Rule
• Workshop: discuss Heart of Darkness
• Due: 3-part summary

1. Identify the following terms:
• Fashoda Affair
• Boer War
• Opium Wars
• Boxer Rebellion
• Indian Mutiny
• Social Darwinism
• White Man’s Burden
• Orientalism
2. Create a 2-column chart that lists the goals of European imperialism on one side, and the strategies use to attain them on the other
3. In no less than a two-paragraph response, identify at least two inherent tensions between the rationale for imperialism and the practice of it. Be sure to address these issues from the perspective of the colonizers and the colonized.

next Thursday

• modified exam on Age of Imperialism

Week of February 12

Tuesday

• Exam 5

Thursday

• Read: Merriman 819-835
• Lecture: Scramble for Africa
• Workshop: Leopold II in the Congo

Week of February 5

Monday

• Read: "Readers Respond to Rousseau" in Cat Massacre, 215-253
• Watch: "How Facebook Changed the World: The Arab Spring" parts 2-4 on YouTube
• Homework: work on essay for Wednesday

Wednesday

• Read: Merriman 649-660
• Lecture: Italian Unification
• Due: FRQ essay

Friday

• Read: Merriman 660-673
• Lecture: German Unification
• Workshop: Exam 5 review session
• Homework: bring substantially completed review sheet to class