We started with a list of issues that certain scholars have compiled
regarding the legacy of European (and specifically British) imperialism. We then
discussed alternate perspectives or related issues that could be connected to
the items in this list. In this manner, we attempted to address the complicated
legacy of imperialism.
The issue discussed the most was globalization. Since this
is a topic that has been discussed from different angles in both social studies
and geography, it seems that it’s the one you all are best equipped so far to
see in a complex manner. Thus, I think that this program would fit well with
what you know but also aid you in considering further issues:
Also, go to this webpage and look at the text. You'll see that the added material here highlights parallels between what's going on in places like Bangladesh in the 21st century and what was going on in the U.S. and Europe a century earlier: http://apps.npr.org/tshirt/#/people
I also played a short clip from the news this morning on P1:
http://sverigesradio.se/sida/avsnitt?programid=1650
We looked some at global maps from the 1400s forward.
We then discussed which topics and areas everyone would like
to work with.
On Tuesday we’ll start our projects on Imperialism and
Migration.
Tuesday, 29 September
We
continued watching elements from the BBC documentary Racism: A History. We saw
a little more about India and then about Namibia.
We
read Niall Ferguson’s article “Let’s Stop Saying Sorry for the Empire” (BBC History Magazine, February 2003, pp.
34-36). We discussed issues that Ferguson stresses in his assessment of the consequences
of British imperialism.
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