HIST 4339: Borderlands of Empire

Professor Chester

Fall 2008

 

Syllabus

Course Readings

Handouts

Announcements

International News Outlets

Further Information on Course Topics


Course Readings: All readings are available at the CU bookstore.

Handouts

 

Announcements (be aware of potential bias in outside sites)

International News Outlets (be aware of potential bias in outside sites)

UNDER CONSTRUCTION Course Topics (be aware of potential bias in outside sites)

  • The Mughal Empire

  • static map of Mughal expansion

  • dynamic map of Mughal frontiers, courtesy of the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative

  • Images of Fatehpur Sikri (the animated ones are especially cool) and a World Heritage Tour of the site

  • Images of the Taj Mahal from the Archeological Survey of India and a Google Earth view

  • A Google Earth view of Delhi's Red Fort (on the right) and Jama Masjid (bottom left)

  • Mughal coinage

  • The British Empire

  • JS Mill's defense of the East India Company

  • article on the East India Company's export trade (CU IP address required)

  • Boundaries

  • Cartography

  • Orientalism

  • The TE Lawrence Society

  • Gertrude Bell

  • Churchill

  • TE Lawrence

  • Lawrence's official biographer on "The Importance of TE Lawrence"

  • Lawrence's official biographer's critique of the David Lean film

  • Brief NPR story on Lawrence's proposed partition of the Middle East and continued relevance today

  • Longer talk-show discussion of Lawrence (28 Nov 2005)

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