History Department
3rd Year History Modules?
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13463 - His 318 (24)
Twentieth Century History: A Global Perspective (4L)
- ?Selected themes in twentieth century history from political, environmental and social history perspectives, including:
- Global social, environmental, economic, demographic and political shifts and cultural change: religion, gender, class
- Changes in civil society, education, the arts and sciences in the long twentieth century
- Engagement with the basic idea of historiography and basic historical methodology
- ?Colonial liberation and nation building in the 20th century:
- The end of the formal imperial era
- Independence movements in Africa and India
- New States
- Cultural dimesions of independence: the search for a "pure" African culture in a globalising world
- Africa in the globalising world
Semester 2
13463 - His 348 (24)
South Africa in the 20th Century (4L)
- Perspectives on the Anglo-Boer War/ South African War
- Wealth and poverty as persistent factors in 20th-century South Africa
- Cultural and political dimensions of the rise and disintegration of Afrikaner nationalism
- Perspectives on apartheid
- The growth and dynamics of black political organisations and the change in power relations in 1994
- Women and change in South African society
- American cultural influences on black and white South Africa in historical perspective???
