3rd Year History Modules

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

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

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