Semester 1
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
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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
