HISTORY 700 A & B
Settlers and Empire
Please note: this is archived course information from 2021 for HISTORY 700.
Description
Explores the histories of nineteenth and twentieth century British settler societies, with a particular focus on New Zealand, Australia and Canada. It will introduce the key conceptual frameworks and major themes for thinking about the comparative and transnational pasts of these settler societies.
To complete this course students must enrol in HISTORY 700 A and B.
Canvas:
Welcome to History 700: Settlers and Empire
This course interrogates the idea of settler societies and their relationship to empire. Settler societies are not just a British imperial phenomenon, but this course will focus on the British empire, and its nineteenth and twentieth century settler colonies, especially New Zealand, Australia, and Canada. Settler colonies are a very particular manifestation of both imperialism and colonialism, but one that arguably is still not very well understood. This course will ask what makes settler societies different? How well do existing conceptions of empire and colonialism explain this phenomenon? What are 'settlers', and what is distinct about the development of these societies? What are the impacts of settler societies for indigenous peoples and are these the same, or different, from other forms of empire? Does settler colonialism have an end, and what might that look like? And not least, what are the implications of the term 'settler society'?
We will aim to answer these questions with three approaches. First the course will look at existing ideas about empire, then we will turn to some key thematic content including aspects of gender, race and culture. Finally you will undertake your own primary research project, on a topic which excites you, and which will be presented to the seminar class.
If you are interested in this course, keep visiting, as new information will be added as the course is developed.
To complete this course students must enrol in HISTORY 700 A and B.
Assessment:
Coursework only
Availability 2021
Semester 1 and 2 (full year)
Lecturer(s)
Lecturer(s) Dr Felicity Barnes
Recommended Reading
T. Ballantyne, Webs of Empire: Locating New Zealand’s Colonial Past, Wellington, 2012.
J. Belich, Replenishing the Earth, Oxford, 2009.
A. Burton, Empire in Question, Durham and London 2011.
F. Cooper, Colonialism in Question: Theory, Knowledge, History, Berkeley, 2005.
J. Darwin, The Empire Project, Cambridge, 2009.
S.Howe, ed., The New Imperial Histories Reader, Abingdon, 2010.
A. Loomba, Colonialism/Postcolonialism, 3rd edn, Abingdon, 2015.
L.Tuhiwai Smith, Decolonising Methodologies, Dunedin, 1999.
Ann L. Stoler and Frederick Cooper, Tensions of Empire: Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World Berkeley, 1997.
Sarah Stockwell, ed., The British Empire: Themes and Perspectives, Oxford, 2008.
L. Veracini, Settler Colonialism: A Theoretical Overview, Cambridge, 2010.
Points
HISTORY 700A: 15 points
HISTORY 700B: 15 points
