HIST 532: INTERROGATING NATIONS&EMPIRES
Spring 2027 · Section 001 · CRN 26600
This course interrogates the historical origins of imperialism, colonialism, and the modern nation state on a global scale. Topics may include: the emergence of modern empires; the relationship between capitalism and imperialism; the connection between racialist and colonialist thought; the development of settler-colonialism; the spread of nationalism; anti-colonialism and its socialist, republican, and other variants; the relationships and tensions between empire and liberalism, empire and sovereignty, as well as empire and citizenship; and the mutual constitution of empire, statehood, and colonialism, decolonialism, borderlands, and the political subject; how peoples are permitted to become nations; the process of state formation in the imperial metropoles and the former colonies; and the limits of the post-Second World War global order.
- Credits
- 3
- Instructors
- Abdel Razzaq Takriti