HIS 3126 Europe and Its Empires
This course looks at Europe's expansion from the fifteenth century through the twentieth. The focus will be on comparing European colonial regimes in America, Asia, and Africa, and their differing impacts, covering the times of exploration, the conquest phase, and the colonial period. Keywords will include: nationalism, capitalism, imperialism, assimilation, association, globalism, hegemony, domination, chauvinism, indigenous, expatriate, missionary, emancipation, segregation, culture, civil-ization, religion, and race.