HIST 259

Fall 2018 All Classes

All Classes

20thC World from Midcentury

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

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HIST 259 class schedule data for fall 2018
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	69361	Lecture-Discussion	B	2:00PM -3:20PM	MW	Armory	Ali, T	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/27/18-12/12/18 Degree Notes: Humanities - Hist & Phil, and Cultural Studies - Western course. Section Info: Topic: The Global Twentieth Century: Midcentury to the Present Description: This course examines the end of European Empires in Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean, and the rise of the Cold war World dominated by the two nuclear-armed superpowers - the USA and the USSR. The course will examine the rise and fall of global empires and superpowers not from the imperial capitals of London, Paris, Moscow, or Washington D.C., but from the edges of empires, from the peripheries of Vietnam, China, India, Pakistan, Tanzania, South Africa, Guinea-Conakry, and Iran. We will explore the processes through which European colonies were re-defined as the "Third World" and we will examine how people living in these regions experienced the rise of the US and Soviet Empires. We will approach these topics not only through scholarly articles and monographs written by academic historians but also through film, fiction, and autobiography.