History Department

​​​​​​​​ Semester 1 

13463 - His 214 (16) 

Key Processes in the making of Western History (3L,1T) 

• Empires, states and the making of a global economy
• The making of a global economy, from China to the Americas
• Empire in an industrial age
• Capitalism and the modern state
• Today's world: post-imperial or neo-colonial?
• ​Origins, dynamics and impact of historical revolutions​

​ Semester 2

13463 - His 244 (16) 

Africa and South Africa: Colonisation and the Rearrangement of Societies (3L,1T) 

• Africa and the West in the 19th century
• Colonial policies in Africa
• The political, cultural and economic impact of the colonisation of Africa in the 19th century
• South Africa in the 18th and 19th centuries
• The political and cultural dynamics of 18th- and 19th-century Cape societies
• The establishment of new black empires and white republics in the interior in the 19th century
• The mineral revolution: the making of a new political and cultural social order