HIST 259

Fall 2016 All Classes

All Classes

Credit: 3 hours.

Economic, social, political, and cultural developments in twentieth-century world history from Second World War era to the present.

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria in Fall 2022 for:

Cultural Studies - Western
Humanities – Hist & Phil
HIST 259 class schedule data for fall 2016
CRN Type Section Time Day Location Instructor Section Details
43297
Lecture-Discussion
A
12:00PM -2:50PM
MW
302 Architecture Building
Ali, T
Part of Term:
B
Date Range:
10/17/16-12/07/16
Degree Notes:
Hist&Philosoph Perspect, and Western Compartv Cult course.
Section Info:
The course begins with a close look a t decolonization, the process through which European colonies in Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean emerged as independent nation states. We will examine the transition from a world dominated by European imperial powers, particularly Britain, to the Cold War world dominated by two superpowers with competing ideologies and nuclear weaponry-- the United States and the Soviet Union. We will examine the rise and fall of great superpowers not from the imperial capitals of London, Paris, Washington D.C., or Moscow, but from the edges of empire--from places like Vietnam, Iran, Algeria, South Africa, and Jamaica.
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