Module HIST56130: Land, labour and imperialism

Department: History

HIST56130: Land, labour and imperialism

Pre-requisites

Corequisites

Excluded Combinations

Aims

• To enable students to study at an advanced level the history of imperial economic policies resource control within colonized societies which will enable students to acquire specific learning outcomes of the programme as whole including:
• a specialist knowledge of imperial history
• bibliographic skills
• an understanding of historical debates
• advanced skills in writing history
• general skills of the historian

Content

• This module will cover selected aspects of the history of the land, labour and imperialism politics reflecting current debate on the subject, and the particular interest of the student. Topics may include the imperatives of the colonial state to encourage new kinds of economic activity, and to manage their effects; the legitimating ideologies of imperial rule required that land and labour be used and controlled in new ways; and the ways colonial administrators struggled to control the social consequences of the economic change to which they were committed.

Learning Outcomes

• Students should build up a critical understanding of the history of this aspect of imperial history and should become aware of other boundaries of current knowledge relating to the subject.
• Students should acquire detailed knowledge and critical understanding of one topic chosen in conjunction with the supervisor.

• Students should be able to undertake a programme of intensive reading directed at a number of topics.
• Students should be able to participate in regular discussion of issues arising from the reading with their supervisor.
• Students should then be able to produce an extensive piece of writing on this agreed topic.

Modes of Teaching, Learning and Assessment and how these contribute to the learning outcomes of the module

Teaching Methods and Learning Hours

Summative Assessment

Formative Assessment

Discussion of work in progress. Written or oral comments on any other agreed written assignment, such as a book review or exploratory essay. In addition, supervisors will normally read and provide written comments on not more than one draft of work being prepared for summative assessment.