Module description
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An introduction to the history and historiography of the British Empire from its Tudor origins to decolonization. It aims, first, to give students an introduction to the development of British imperial history as as a discipline, and, second, to prepare them to teach the subject. It moves between the history of the imperial centre, and the stories of encounter, settlement, violence, resistance, and of the transformation of lifeways and identity, at the American, Asian, African, and Pacific peripheries of British influence.
More information available here: https://keats.kcl.ac.uk/mod/book/view.php?id=3195516&chapterid=262142
Assessment details
1 x 4,000-word essay (100%)
Teaching pattern
10 x 2-hour seminar