A 3,000 word essay [Learning Outcomes 1-4]

The module will focus on British Imperialism in the long nineteenth century and, utilising theoretical approaches such as post-colonialism and orientalism, explore how imperialism structured and was structured by discourses of race and nationhood within Britain. Students will initially discuss economic, political, military and cultural definitions of imperialism and competing explanations of the rise of British Imperialism before looking at a a range of case studies such as :
-The transatlantic slave trade
- Missionaries and religious imperialism
-The Caribbean and the slow abolition of slavery
-The Crimean War and military imperialism
-Scientific discourses of race and imperialism
-India in the British Imagination and Politics
-The rise and Fall of Disraeli's New Imperialism: Afghanistan, Turkey and 1880s election
-Imperialism and Popular Culture
-The Boer War and imperialism in crisis
-The Legacy of Imperialism : Communities and Identities in the C20 and C21

Recommended Library books, Journals and e-resources.
DVD and video
OHP's and screens
The Blackboard virtual learning environment will be available(where relevant) to support this module. Details will be supplied in the module handbook.

Lectures will initially provide an introduction to historical debates, concepts and the significance and inter-relatedness of imperialism, race and nation and then focus upon a series of case studies.

Seminars and workshops will deepen knowledge and develop skills of analysing source materials and encourage students to engage in debate.

Tutorials will provide students with assistance in preparing for their assessments.

Burton, A. (2001) Politics and Empire in Victorian Britain: A Reader , Palgrave London
Cannadine, D. (2002) Ornamentalism: How the British Saw Their Empire Penquin, Harmondsworth (Paperback)
Colley, L. (2003) Captives Britain, Empire and the World 1600-1850 Pimlico, London
Hall, C. (2002) Civilizing Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination Blackwell Oxford
Hall, C. (2000) Cultures of Empire: A Reader - Colonisers in Britain and the Empire of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Manchester University Press
Johnson. R. (2002) British Imperialism (Histories & Controversies) Palgrave Macmillan Basingstoke
McClintock, A. (1995) Imperial Leather: Race Gender and Sexuality in the Colonial Context Routledge London
Ramamurth, A. ( 2003) Imperial Persuaders: Images of Africa and Asia in British Advertising (Studies in imperialism) Manchester University Press
Richards J (2002) Imperialism and Music: Britain 1876-1953 Manchester University Press
Wilson, K. (2008) A New Imperial History: Culture, Identity and Modernity in Britain and the Empire. Cambridge University Press