Course Outline
26 January Introduction: what does empire mean?
31 January An Island Race?
Ferguson , Introduction
2 February Ireland 1169-1688: The First Colony
Ferguson , 46-54
7 February Explorers, Pirates and Bucaneers: Opening the North Atlantic 1480-1620
Ferguson , 2-10, 54-69
9 February How the British Came to Rule India 1600-1780
Ferguson , 14-24
14 February The End of the First British Empire : North America 1750-1780
Ferguson , 69-83
16 February Consolidating British Rule in India 1780-1820
Ferguson , 24-43
21 February Empire and Exploration: T he Opening of the Pacific 1760-1800
23 February Empire and Food: Sugar in the eighteenth century
Ferguson , 58-69
28 February First Mid Term
2 March Empire and Extinction: The Case of the Tasmanian Aborigines 1800-1876
Ferguson , 83-92
7 March The Humanitarian Impulse and the End of Slavery 1780-1838
Ferguson , 93-101
9 March No Class
14 March Colonising the Mind: The case of India
Ferguson , 101-120
16 March Rebellion in India and Jamaica 1857, 1865
Ferguson , 120-136
21 March Spring Break
23 March Spring Break
28 March White Settler Societies and Dispossession of Native Peoples 1840-1870
30 March Race, Sex and Empire
Ferguson , 159-203
4 April How the Empire Grew in the Nineteenth Century: The Scramble for Africa 1870-
1900
Ferguson , 137-159, 185-211
6 April Mid Term No. 2
11 April Test Reviews
13 April Empire and Popular Culture 1870-1950
Ferguson , 211-221
18 April World War One and the Disruption of Empire
Ferguson , 221-265
20 April Women and Empire
25 April Origins of Colonial Nationalism 1820-1945
Ferguson , 283-290
27 April The Second World War and Empire 1939-50
Ferguson , 290-302
2 May The Empire Comes Home
Ferguson , 265-283
4 May Decolonization 1960-1997
Ferguson . As above, 290-302
9 May The Legacy of Empire in British Society
Ferguson , 2303-317
11 May Class Discussion and Wrap Up
14 May FINAL EXAM, 8.00-10.00 IN THE CLASSROOM