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MIT OpenCourseWare
European Imperialism in the 19th and 20th Centuries
- Instructor
- Prof. David Ciarlo
- Term
- Spring 2006
- Level
- Undergraduate
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- 1 reading · 3 other files · 3 web pages
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About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 21H.443 European Imperialism in the 19th and 20th Centuries, Spring 2006, Prof. David Ciarlo — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: MIT's own listing order, section by section. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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Lecture 2: The Decline of the Mercantilist Empires: From 1492 to the Early 19th Century
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Lecture 3: Classic Theories of Imperialism
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Lecture 4: From “John Company” to the Mutiny of 1857
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Lecture 5: Shifting Economic Rationales: From “Free Trade” to Opium Wars
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Lecture 6: Charting New Terrain: Discovering “Darkest Africa”
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Lecture 7: Ethnography and “Race Science”
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Lecture 8: Imperial and “Civilizing” Missions
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Lecture 9: Discussion: Mike Davis, Late Victorian Holocausts (2002)
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Lecture 10: From the Great Game to the Scramble for Africa
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Lecture 11: The Berlin Conference: Power-Politics and Map Fantasies
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Lecture 12: Colonial Warfare I: Conquest of Africa, Boer War, Boxer Uprising
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Lecture 13: Genocides in the Belgian Congo and German South-West Africa
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Lecture 14: The Imperial Nation on Display
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Lecture 15: Imperial Masculinities and Femininities
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Lecture 16: Hawaii
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Lecture 17: Discussion: Ferdinand Oyono, Houseboy
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Lecture 18: Discussion: George Orwell, Burmese Days
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Lecture 19: The First World War
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Lecture 20: Colonial Economics and “Modernization”
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Lecture 21: Empire in the Second World War
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Lecture 22: A New World Order? From the Suez Crisis to Vietnam
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Lecture 23: Decolonization
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Lecture 24: Independent Nationalism of the New Elites
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Lecture 25: The Neo-Colonialism of “Globalization”?
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Lecture 26: The New American Empire?
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