Power and Resistance in a Global Age’
‘Power and Resistance in a Global Age’ Recommended Readings Term 1 2018-19 This list is not exhaustive and is intended to guide and complement your research of the topics explored on the course. Bauman, Zygmunt (2007) Consuming Life. Polity Press Bauman, Zygmunt (2008) Does Ethics Have a Chance in a World of Consumers? Harvard University […]
‘Power and Resistance in a Global Age’ Recommended Readings
‘Power and Resistance in a Global Age’ Recommended Readings Term 1 2018-19 This list is not exhaustive and is intended to guide and complement your research of the topics explored on the course. Bauman, Zygmunt (2007) Consuming Life. Polity Press Bauman, Zygmunt (2008) Does Ethics Have a Chance in a World of Consumers? Harvard University […]
Africa in the Age of Imperialism
Portugal’s involvement (whether official or unofficial) with the west coast of Africa in the 15th and 16th centuries. Start with the voyages of exploration and footholds that the Portuguese gained on the west African coast or on nearby islands. Then, concentrate your essay on Portugal’s relationship with the Kingdom of Kongo. Address the nature of […]
Railroads, Business, and Politics in the Gilded Age.
Read Chapter 18 in the textbook The American Promise sixth edition..Volume 2: To 1865… Discuss three ways that leading industrialists (Carnegie, Gould, and Rockefeller) transformed American business in the late nineteenth century. Considering Ida Tarbell’s criticism of John D. Rockefeller, should those industrialists be considered symbols of American business ingenuity or of ruthless business practices? […]
Age of Exploration
What do you believe were the primary motives and preconditions that prompted European overseas exploration in the 15th and 16th centuries? motives: -shorter route to asia -God (religious reason) -Gold (money) -Glory (fame) -attraction to other lands beyond Europe preconditons: -greater, political centralization -new seaworthy ships: i.e sails (from square shape to triangle shape), and […]
