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The World From SOAS Handbook 2021-22

August Resubmission 2022

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Assignment 1, Portfolio of Weekly Reflections

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Assignment 1 tWfSOAS

Assignment 2 , Essay

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Week 1, The Global Political Economy -1

1 Lecture outline

1 Seminar reading etc

Reading-Findlay, R, O’Rourke, K.H. (2007), Power Plenty. London, PUP. Extracts-2

Reading-Findlay, R, O’Rourke, K.H. (2007), Power Plenty. London, PUP

Reading-Harling, P. and Mandler, P. (1993), ‘From Fiscal-Military State to Laissez-Faire State, 1760-1850’, Journal of British Studies, Vol. 32, No. 1 pp. 44-70

Extra Readings

Week 2, The Global Political Economy -2

2 Lecture outline

2 Seminar reading etc

Reading - Darwin, Imperialism the Victorians

Reading-Fanon, F. (1967), The Wretched of the Earth. Harmondsworth, Penguin.

Reading-Findlay, R, O’Rourke, K.H. (2007), Power Plenty. London, PUP. Extracts

Extra Readings

Week 3, Orientalism

3 Lecture outline

3 Seminar reading etc

Reading-Edwards, D. B. (1989), ‘Mad Mullahs and Englishmen, Discourse in the Colonial Encounter’, Comparative Studies in Society and History, Vol. 31, No. 4, pp. 649-670

Reading-Huntington, S. P. (1993), ‘The Clash of Civilizations’, Foreign Affairs, 72(3)

Reading-Motadel, D. (2012), ‘Islam and the European Empires’, The Historical Journal, Vol. 55, No. 3, pp. 831-856

Reading-Sen, A. (2005), ‘Indian Traditions the Western Imagination’, Daedalus.

Reading-Very short British article on Afghanistan from 1918

Extra Readings

The World from SOAS QUIZ

Week 4, Cultural Change in Africa & Asia

4 Lecture outline

4 Seminar reading 1

4 Seminar reading 2

Reading-Chong, K. R, (1969), ‘The Tonghak Rebellion, Harbinger of Korean Nationalism’, Journal of Korean Studies, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 73-88.

Reading-Kohn, M. (2009), ‘Afghānī on Empire, Islam, and Civilization’, Political Theory, Vol. 37, No. 3, pp. 398-422

Reading-Kohno, M. (2001), ‘On the Meiji Restoration, Japans search for sovereignty?’ International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 265-283

Reading-Krause, J (2021), Islam anticolonial rebellions in north west Africa, Historical Journal, Vol.64, No.3, pp.674-695

Reading-Lee, K. (1986), ‘The Rise of Nationalism in Korea’, Korean Studies, Vol. 10, pp. 1-12

Sayid Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī and Abdul-Hādī Hāʾirī (1971), ‘al-Afghānī on the decline of Islam’, Die Welt des Islams, New Series, Vol. 1, Issue 12 pp. 121-125.

Extra Readings

4 Lecture outline

Week 5, Racism

5 lecture outline

5 Seminar reading part 1

Racism A History - Fatal Impacts in HD ep 2/3 - Live Link

Reading - Rattansi, Racism A Very Short Introduction, extract

5 Seminar reading part 2

Reading-Ballantyne, T. (2001), ‘Race and the Webs of Empire, Aryanism from India to the Pacific’, Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, Vol. 2, No.3

Reading-Banton, Racializing of the world

Reading, 1931 short article on Eugenic sterilisation

Extra Readings

5 lecture outline

Week 6, States

6 Lecture outline

6 Seminar reading etc

Reading-Kolsky, E, (2010), ‘The Rule of Colonial Indifference, Rape on Trial in Early Colonial India, 1805-57’, The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 69, No. 4, pp. 1093-1117

Reading-Kolsky, E, (2015), ‘The Colonial Rule of Law and the Legal Regime of Exception, Frontier “Fanaticism” and State Violence in British India’, The American historical Review, Vol. 120, No. 4, pp. 1218-1246

Reading-Michalopoulos, S. and Papaioannou, E. (2016), ‘The Long-Run Effects of the Scramble for Africa’, The American Economic Review, Vol. 106, No. 7, pp. 1802-1848

Reading-Omrani, B. (2009), ‘The Durand Line, History and theProblems of the Afghan-Pakistan Border’, Asian Affairs, Vol. 40, No. 2, pp. 177-195

Extra Readings

6 Lecture outline

Week 7, Demographic Change

7 Lecture outline

7 Seminar reading etc part 1

7 Seminar reading etc part 2

Reading

Reading - Harper Constantine, British Migration

Reading - Olusoga, Black British, extract

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