HSTR 375
History of Decolonization in Asia and Africa
Units: 1.5
Hours: 3-0-0
Emphasis on South and Southeast Asian history, and African diasporic political networks of anti-colonialism and nationalism from the late 19th century to the late 20th century. Focus on global historical changes such as the rise of trans-Atlantic slavery, abolition, the world system, as well as nationalisms in the Afro-Asian world, with an emphasis on Mohandas Gandhi, Subhas Chandra Bose, Frantz Fanon and Nelson Mandela.
Undergraduate course in History offered by the Department of History in the Faculty of Humanities.