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HIS 3540: World History IV
Module 5
HIS 3540: World History IV
General Resources
Module 1
Module 2
Europe in the Nineteenth Century
Europe in the Twentieth Century: The Era of the Two World Wars
Europe in the Twentieth Century: The Era of the Cold War
Module 3
The United States in the Nineteenth Century
The United States in the Twentieth Century
Latin America in the Nineteenth Century
Latin America in the Twentieth Century
Module 4
Asia in the Twentieth-Century: The Era of Two World Wars
Asia in the Twentieth-Century: The Era of the Cold War
Module 5
Module 6
Module 7
Module 8
Nineteenth-Century Africa
Abolition of Slavery and the Slave Trade
Imperialism in Africa
The South African (Anglo-Boer) War
Discussion Exercise: Abolition of Slavery
David Northrup (Ed.), The Atlantic Slave Trade (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2nd ed. 2002), pp. 167-187
BBC History, "Abolition"
BBC, The Story of Africa: African History from the Dawn of Time, "The End of Slavery"
Internet African History Sourcebook, The Impact of Slavery
Lecture on Abolition by Simon Schama
The British Library, "The Campaign for Abolition"
International Slavery Museum (Liverpool, UK)
Museums, Libraries and Archives East of England, "The Abolition Project"
The National Archives (UK), "Abolition of the Slave Trade"
The National Museum of Denmark, "The Abolition of Slavery"
New York Public Library, Schomburg Center, "Abolition of the Slave Trade"
The Rijksmuseum (Netherlands), "1863 Abolition of Slavery"
Discussion Exercise: Britain and Africa to 1875
Video Exercise: Britain and the Scramble for Africa
Frank McDonough, "The Partition of Africa: Theories and Interpretations"
BBC, The Story of Africa: African History from the Dawn of Time, "Africa and Europe, 1800-1914"
BBC, The Story of Africa: African History from the Dawn of Time, "Southern Africa"
BBC Documentary on the Zulu Kingdom
Internet African History Sourcebook, European Imperialism
UNESCO, General History of Africa - Vol. VI - Africa in the Nineteenth Century until the 1880s
Discussion Exercise: Britain and Southern Africa
Primary Sources Exercise: The Boer War
Discussion Exercise: Consequences of the Boer War
Leopold Scholtz, Why the Boers Lost the War (2005)
The Boer War (Channel 4 Television, 1999)
Australian War Memorial: Australia and the Boer War, 1899-1902
Craig Wilcox: The Boer War: Australians and the War in South Africa, 1899β1902
New Zealand Government Article on the Boer War
Carman Miller and Richard Foot, "Canada and the South African War (Boer War)"
Cornelis de Jong Article on the Boer War
Fransjohan Pretorius, "The Boer Wars"
Twentieth-Century Africa
Africa in the Era of the Two World Wars
Decolonization and the Cold War in British Africa
Decolonization and the Cold War in Belgian Africa
Postcolonial Africa
Apartheid
David Killingray, "African Voices from Two World Wars" (2001)
Bill Nasson, "Africa", Cambridge History of the First World War, Vol.1 (2016)
Timothy H. Parsons, "Mobilising Britain's African Empire for War: Pragmatism vs Trusteeship" (2015)
Marika Sherwood, "An Information 'Black Hole': World War I in Africa" (2015)
Elizabeth Wrangham, Ghana During the First World War: The Colonial Administration of Sir Hugh Clifford (2013) Introduction
Judith Byfield and Carolyn Brown (Eds.), Africa and World War II (2015) Preface
UNESCO, Africa and the Second World War (1980)
UNESCO, General History of Africa - Volume VII - Africa Under Colonial Domination, 1880-1935 (1985)
UNESCO, General History of Africa - Volume VIII - Africa Since 1935 (1999)
BBC, The Story of Africa: African History from the Dawn of Time, "Africa and Europe, 1800-1914"
BBC, The Story of Africa: African History from the Dawn of Time, "Between World Wars, 1914-1945"
South African History Online, "Responses in South Africa to the Outbreak of WWI"
Marika Sherwood, "Colonies, Colonials and World War Two" (BBC History, 2011)
South African History Online, "The effects of WWII in Africa" (2011)
South African History Online, "Second World War and Its Impact, 1939-1948" (2011)
Discussion Exercise: British Decolonization in Africa - Colonial Nationalist Factors
Discussion Exercise: British Decolonization in Africa - Metropolitan Factors
Discussion Exercise: British Decolonization in Africa - International Factors
Discussion Exercise: Origins of Southern Rhodesia's UDI
Discussion Exercise: Course of Southern Rhodesia's UDI
Video Exercise: Mau Mau (Kenya)
Babou Article on African Nationalism and Decolonization
Watts Article on British Decolonization in Africa
Watts Rhodesia's UDI Introduction
Research Presentation: Belgian Decolonization of Congo
Collins Article on the Congo Crisis
Gibbs Article on Hammarskjold, the UN, and the Congo Crisis
Hoffmann Article on the UN and the Congo Crisis
Nwaubani Article on Eisenhower, Nkrumah, and the Congo Crisis
Peemans Article on the Economics of Belgian Decolonization
Vanthemsche Chapter on the Historiography of Belgian Colonialism
Research Essay: African Independence
African Independence Help Notes
Discussion Exercise: Postcolonial Problems in Former British Territories
Crawford Young Article on Postcolonial Africa
Aapengnuo Article on Ethnic Conflict in Africa
Keller Article on Africa and Globalization
Onuoha Paper on Development Challenges in Africa
Zeleza "The Causes and Costs of War in Africa"
Max Fisher: The Dividing of a Continent: Africa's Separatist Problem
Edmond J. Keller: Decolonization, Independence, and the Failure of Politics
Michael Mann: Post Colonial Development in Africa
Nancy L. Clark and William L. Worger,
South Africa: The Rise and Fall of Apartheid
. (2nd ed. New York: Routledge, 2013)
Eric Morgan, Review of H-Diplo Forum on Connie Field,
Have You Heard From Johannesburg?
(Clarity Films, 2010)
Christopher Saunders, Review of Paul Maylam,
South Africa's Racial Past: The History and Historiography of Racism, Segregation and Apartheid
. H-SAfrica, H-Net Reviews. January, 2002.
BBC News, "South Africa profile - Timeline"
BBC, "Apartheid in South Africa" (Broadcast Archive)
Connie Field,
Have You Heard From Johannesburg?
(Clarity Films, 2010)
Peter S. Goodman, "End of Apartheid in South Africa? Not in Economic Terms"
Simon Jenkins, Review of Robin Renwick,
The End of Apartheid
(2015),
The Guardian
, Mar. 5 2015
Michigan State University, "South Africa: Overcoming Apartheid, Building Democracy"
Jamie Miller, "The Black Hole of Apartheid History", Imperial and Global Forum, Dec. 12 2013
Christopher Saunders, "South African Historical Writing to the End of the Historical Era"
Oxford Research Encyclopedia
, Nov. 2018
South African History Online, "A history of Apartheid in South Africa"
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