Comparative History of the Colonial Empires
Objectives
1. To think about different imperial and colonial textures of time belonging to European societies, in order to differentiate between memory (of violence, racism, or glorification of heroes) and historical analysis.
2. To understand historically elementary forms of a colonial state, which articulates fiscal pressure with military organization; international alliances with tactics promoting internal rivalry; civilizing projects and missions; knowledge production and networks of communication.
3. To locate the colonial state in relation to a series of dynamics including the competition with other institutions, interest groups and individual agents; ecclesiastical organizations, commercial companies, merchant
General characterization
Code
711051143
Credits
6.0
Responsible teacher
Pedro António Albuquerque e Castro de Almeida Cardim
Hours
Weekly - 4
Total - 168
Teaching language
English
Prerequisites
None
Bibliography
1. G. V. Scammell, A primeira era imperial. A expansão ultramarina europeia c. 1400-1715 (Lisboa: Publicações Europa-
América, 2000).
2. Charles Boxer, O Império marítimo português 1415-1825 (Lisboa: Edições 70, 2011).
Diogo Ramada Curto e Francisco Bethencourt, dirs., A Expansão marítima portuguesa (Lisboa: Edições 70, 2009).
3. Barrington Moore, Jr., As Origens Sociais da Ditadura e da Democracia: senhores e camponeses na construção do
mundo moderno (Lisboa: Edições 70, 2010).
4. Andrew Porter, Imperialismo europeu, 1860-1914 (Lisboa: Edições 70, 2011).
Teaching method
Classes are divided between lectures and more interactive ones. During the former, the instructor follows the syllabus, searching always to promote the debate around the most controversial points. In the interactive classes, the instructor guides students through the range of interpretations suggested by documents and the main historiographical dossiers.
Office hours dedicated to tutorial sessions serve to clarify possible doubts, as well as to provide supervision to the development of individual research works.
Evaluation method
Continuous assessment - Evaluation requirements articulates three different aspects, to which will be associated the same value: (i) written exam, (ii) an essay around a single topic, one book or a small group of documents (5 thousand typefaces), (iii) and oral participation of the students in all classes.(100%)
Subject matter
1. For a history of the concepts of empire and colonies, imperialism and colonialism.
2. How to conceive and understand the colonial archive?
3. Maritime empires in Asia : between trade and the allocation of resources in wars.
4. Plantations, slave trade and territorial bases of Atlantic empires.
5. City ports and colonial cities in a comparative perspective.
6. From colonialism to national states in the Americas.
7. The emergence of a British territorial empire in India.
8. The scramble of Africa.
9. Empires and descolonization processes in the twentieth century.