At the end of this module, the student should:
1) understand the process of nation-building and imperial expansion in the nineteenth century.
2) interpret key documents concerning these processes.
3) formulate an argument about a particular national or imperial conflict.

Week 1
The World in the 19th Century
Readings: C.A. Bayly, “Between World Revolutions, c. 1815-1865,” [Chapter 4] in The Birth of the Modern World, 1780-1914 (Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2004); selections from Richard J. Evans, The Pursuit of Power: Europe 1815-1914 (New York: Viking, 2016).

Week 2
Empires
Readings: Selections from Jurgen Osterhammel, The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2015); Jeremy Adelman, “An Age of Imperial Revolutions,” American Historical Review (April 2008): 319-340.

Week 3
Nationalism
Readings: Selections from Benedict Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, rev. ed. London: Verso, 1998; Geyer, Michael and Charles Bright. “Global Violence and Nationalizing Wars in Eurasia and America: The Geopolitics of War in the Mid-Nineteenth Century,” Society for Comparative Studies in Society and History 38 (October 1996): 619-657.

Week 4
Mexico and the Caste War of the Yucatan
Readings: Douglas W. Richmond, “Liberal Oppression and Maya Resistance,” from Conflict and Carnage in Yucatán: Liberals, the Second Empire, and Maya Revolutionaries, 1855–1876 (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2015): 19-56; Wolfgang Gabbert, “Of Friends and Foes: The Caste War and Ethnicity in the Yucatan,” Journal of Latin American Anthropology 9 (1) 90-118.

Week 5
India and the Rebellion of 1857
Readings: Selections from Rudrangshu Mukherjee, Awadh in Revolt, 1857-1858 (Permanent Black, 2002); Christopher Hibbert, The Great Mutiny: India 1857 (London: Penguin, 2000); and Mehta, Uday Singh. Liberalism and Empire: A Study in Nineteenth-Century British Liberal Thought (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1999).

Week 6
China and the Taiping Rebellion
Readings: Philip A. Kuhn, “The Taiping Rebellion,” in The Cambridge History of China, Vol, 10: Late Ch’ing, 1800-1911, Part I, ed. John K. Fairbank (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978), 264-317.

Week 7
The U.S. Civil War
Readings: Selections from Mary-Susan Grant, The War for a Nation: The American Civil War (New York: Routledge, 2006) and Don Doyle, American Civil Wars: The United States, Latin America, Europe, and the Crisis of the 1860s (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017).

Week 8
Russia and Poland and the Rebellion of 1863
Readings: Selections from Engelstein, Laura. Slavophile Empire: Imperial Russia’s Illiberal Path. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2009).

Week 9
Western Europe: Italian Unification and The Paris Commune of 1871
Readings: Selections from Don Doyle, Nations Divided: America, Italy, and the Southern Question (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2002) and Enrico Del Lago, Civil War and Agrarian Unrest: The Confederate South and Southern Italy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018).

Week 10
German Unification
Readings: Selections from Dennis Showalter, The Wars of German Unification, 2nd ed. (London: Bloomsbury, 2015).

Week 11
The Nineteenth-Century World
Readings: Paul A. Kramer, “Power and Connections: Imperial Histories of the United States in the World,” American Historical Review (December 2011), 1359; selections from An Emerging Modern World, 1750–1870, edited by Sebastian Conrad and Jürgen Osterhammel (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press, 2018).

Not applicable to this module.

• Feedback individually to students, on an activity or draft prior to summative assessment
• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment

Feedback on continuous assessment is given individually and to the class,verbally and in writing, throughout the semester. Feedback on end-of-semester essays is given individually and to the class on drafts and essays plans before final submission, and by appointment after submission and grading.