HIST 6020: Modern Empires
Professor Chester
Fall 2006
Syllabus
Course Readings (available at CU bookstore;
many readings also on reserve at Norlin Library)
- Nov. 2, Empire and Literature: select a
novel from the list below, or check with me if you'd like to suggest another
possibility
- Chinua Achebe,
Things Fall Apart
- Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
- E.M. Forster, Passage to India
- Rudyard Kipling, Kim
- Andre Malraux, La Condition Humaine
[Man's Fate]
- George Orwell, Burmese Days
- Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children
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