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Europe’s Postcolonial Legacies Charles University – Summer Term 2018 Dr Paul Flather
Reading list March Session
Class 1: The End of Empires - Chakravorty Spivak Gayatri, A Critique of Colonial Reason. Calcutta (Papryrus, 1985). - Morris, James, Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat (London, 1992 [1979]). - Hobsbawm, E. J., The Age of Empire, 1875 – 1914 (London, 1987). - Hobsbawm, E. J., The Scramble for Africa (London, 1991). - Darwin, John, Britain and Decolonization: The Retreat from Empire in the Post-War World (Basingstroke, 1988). - Fergusson, Nial, How Britain made the Modern World (Penguin, 2003).
Class 2: Ideas for Reforms
- Anderson, Benedict, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of Nationalism (London: Verso, 1983). - W.E, du bois The souls of Black Folk (Chicago, 1903) - Chatterjee, Partha, Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World (London: Zed Books, 1986). - Fanon Frantz, Black Skin, White Masks (Grove Press, 1967). - Gellner, Ernest. Nations and Nationalism (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1983). - Habermas, Jurgen, The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1987). - Cannadine, David, Ornamentalism: How the British Saw Their Empire (London, 2001). - Guha, Ranajit. “On Some Aspects of the Historiography of Colonial India.” In Ranajit Guha, ed., Subaltern Studies I, pp. 1-8. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1982. - Blackburn, Robin, The making of New World Slavery: from the Baroque to the Modern, 1492 – 1800 (New York, 1997).
Articles
- Chatterjee, Partha, and Gyanendra, Pandey, eds. Subaltern Studies VII (Delhi: OUP 1992). - Said, Edward W. “Identity, Negation and Violence.” New Left Review 171 (1988): 46-60. - Prakash, Gyan. “Writing Post-Orientalist Histories of the Third World: Perspectives from Indian Historiography.” Comparative Studies in Society and history 32, no. 2 (April 1990): 383-408. - Sullivan, Eileen, ‘Liberalism and Imperialism: J. S. Mill’s Defence of the British Empire’, Journals of the History of Ideas, 44/4 (1983), pp. 595-617.
Class 3: Why the British Left India? What was Gandhi’s contribution?
- Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire. The New Cambridge History of India, Part 2, vol. 1. (Cambridge University Press, 1988). - Seal, Anil, The Emergence of Indian Nationalism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1971). - James, Lawrence, Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British India (London, 1997). - Amin Shahid “The Imaginary Institution of India.” in Partha Chatterjee and Gyanendra Pandey, eds., Subaltern Studies VII, pp. 1-39. (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1992). - Nandy, Ashis, The Intimate Enemy: Loss and ~Recovery of Self under Colonialism (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1983). - Piers Brendon The Decline and Fall of the British Empire (Vintage, 2008) - Sarkar, Sumit, The Swadeshi Movement in Bengal. (New Delhi: People’s Publishing House, 1973). - Bayly, C. A., Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire (Cambridge, 1988). - Hibbert, Christopher, The Great Mutiny: India 1857 (London, 1978). - Trevelyan, George Otto (ed.), The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay, 2 Vols. (London 1876). - Nehru, Jawaharlal. The Discovery of India (New York: John Day, 1946).
Gandhi’s ideas and contribution
- An Autobiography: The Story of my Experiments with Truth, tr. Mahadev Desai (Jonathan Cape, 1966). - Amin, Shahid. “Gandhi as Mahatma: Gorakhpur District, Eastern UP, 1921-1922.” in Ranajit Guha, ed., Subaltern Studies III, pp. 1-161 (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1984). - Brown, Judith, Gandhi: Prisoner of Hope (London: Yale University Press, 1991). - Fuischer, Louis, The Life of Mahatma Gandhi (Bombay: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, 4th edition, 1983). - Luther King, Martin, Jr. Stride towards Freedom: The Montgomery Story (New York: Harper & Row, 1958). - Brown, Judith M., Gandhi and Civil Resistance in India, 1917–47: Key Issues. the experience of non-violent action from Gandhi to the present (New York: OUP, 2009) pp. 43–57. - Ostergaard, Geoffrey. Gandhian nonviolence and passive resistance (http://www.satyagrahafoundation.org/gandhian-nonviolence-and-passive-resistance/) (24.4.2015).
Class 4: How France was forced to leave Indo-China?
- Perkins, Mandaley, Hanoi, Adieu: A Bittersweet Memoir of French Indochina. (Harper Perennial, 2005). - Indochina: An Ambiguous Colonization, 1858–1954. (University of California Press, 2010). - Tarling, Nicholas, Imperialism in Southeast Asia: "A Fleeting, Passing Phase" (Routledge, 2001). - Lawrence, Mark Atwood, The Vietnam War: A Concise International History (OUP 2008). - McNamara, Robert S., Blight, James G., Brigham, Robert K., Biersteker, Thomas J., Schandler, Herbert, Argument Without End: In Search of Answers to the Vietnam Tragedy (New York: PublicAffairs, 2000). - Aditiany, Savitri. The Influence of French Colonialism on Vietnam's Culture (http://serialsjournals.com/serialjournalmanager/pdf/1462440916.pdf) - Neale, Jonathan, The American War: Vietnam, 1960–1975 (London: Bookmarks, 2001).
April Session
Class 1: After 1945 - a new Post-Colonial world order ?
- PEET, Richard. Unholy trinity: the IMF, World Bank and WTO. 2nd ed. London: Zed Books, 2009. ISBN 978-1-84813-252-8. - James B. Burnham. (1999) The IMF and World Bank: Time to merge. The Washington Quarterly 22:2, pages 101-111. - James B. Burnham (1986) Living Together: The Case of the Bretton Woods Sisters, Washington Quarterly, 9:1, 121-135, DOI: 10.1080/01636608609450820 - Weiss, T. (2015). The United Nations: before, during and after 1945. International Affairs, Vol. 91, No. 6, pages 1221-1235. - United Nations (2014). History of the United Nations. http://www.un.org/en/aboutun/history/1941-1950.shtml - Stacy May - Measuring the Marshall Plan - https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/europe/1948-04-01/measuring-marshall-plan
Class 2: Britain and the new Commonwealth
- James Mayall. “The Contemporary Commonwealth”. Routledge; 1 edition (30 Jan. 2012) l – excellent summary : https://www.amazon.co.uk/Contemporary-Commonwealth-James-Mayall/dp/0415502527 - The Oxford History Of The British Empire: Volume IV: The Twentieth Century. .Oxford University Press, U.S.A.; New Ed edition (20 Sept. 2001) especially David McIntyre’s chapter https://www.amazon.co.uk/Oxford- History-British-Empire-twentieth/dp/0199246793/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1518442718&sr=1- 1&keywords=oxford+history+british+empire - Kris Srinivasan’s book unoriginal but incorporates much other writing on the theme https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rise-Decline-Future-British-Commonwealth/dp/0230203671 - The Empire’s New Clothes – the Myth of the Commonwealth – Philip Murphy (Hurst 2018) - The Round Table commonwealth journal search articles https://www.commonwealthroundtable.co.uk/ - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00358533.2010.484147?needAccess=true
Class 3: France and the struggle over Algeria
- Shepard, Todd. The Invention of Decolonization: The Algerian War and Remaking of France (Cornell University Press, 2006). - McDougall, James. The Impossible Republic: The Reconquest of Algeria and the Decolonization of France, 1945–1962 - The Journal of Modern History 89#4 (December 2017) - http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdfplus/10.1086/694427 - Bennoune, Mahfoud. The Making of Contemporary Algeria, 1830-1987 (Cambridge University Press, 2002).
Class 4: Post-Colonialism today ?
- Cooper, Robert, ‘The Post Modern State’, in Foreign Policy Centre (ed.), Reordering the World: The Long-term Implications of Septermber II (London, 2002) - Taylor, Charles. “Modes of Civil Society.” Public Culture 3, no. 1 (Fall 1990): 102-19 - Sarah Demart, Congolese Migration to Belgium and Postcolonial Perspectives, 2013, African Diaspora (attached) - António Raimundo, Mapping the Agency of a Small, Former Colonial Power: Portugal and EU Political Conditionality in Sub-Saharan Africa, 2014, Perspectives on European Politics and Society (attached) - Göran Collste, Rectification for Atrocities Under Colonialism, June 2016, Interventions - http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369801X.2016.1191959 - Nicholad Deakin, Citizens and immigrants in Britain, April 2008, The Round Table - http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00358537108452956 - Bhikhu Pradekh, Managing multicultural societies, 1997, The Round Table - http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00358539708454386 - Gustavo Lins Riberio, Why (post)colonialism and (de)coloniality are not enough: a post-imperialist perspective, Postcolonial Studies, 2011 - http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13688790.2011.613107 - Idesbald Goddeeris, Postcolonial Belgium: The Memory of the Congo, 2015, Interventions - http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369801X.2014.998253 - Edelstein, Michael , ‘Imperialism: Cost and Benefit’, in Roderick Floud and Donald McCloskey (eds.), The Economic History of Britiain Since 1700, Vol. II (Cambridgem 1994), pp. 173-216. - Lure of Greatness by Anthony Barnett (Unbound, 2017) good on British Empire nostalgia Poslední úprava: Kłusek Johana, Mgr., Ph.D. (03.04.2018)
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JMBZ192 Europe’s Postcolonial Legacies Winter Term 2018 Instructor: Dr Paul Flather, Fellow at Mansfield College, Oxford University. Course assistant at Charles University: Johana Kudrnová (johana.kudrnova@fsv.cuni.cz). Requirements: (exam, 6 ECTS) 1. Full attendance record (exceptions need to be discussed in advance with the instructors or the course assistant), active participation in seminars (20 per cent of final mark) 2. Final essay on topic assigned by instructors. Length 2000 words (+/- 10 per cent). Citations required (recommended standard ISO 690-2). To be sent to Johana Kudrnová by 1 June 2018. Essays should be submitted in Word or PDF format (80 per cent of final mark). Programme: (All classes are held at Staromestske namesti 1 in the premises of the Department of European Studies – room STAN317) March - Session 1 Lecture 1. Tuesday 20 March, 14:30-16:30 Introduction: The End of Empires - an overview of decolonialisation from the 18th century to 1970s Lecture 2. Wednesday 21 March, 10:00-12:00 The transmission of ideas of reform - anti-slavery, racism, Orientalism, self-determination and human rights Lecture 3. Wednesday 21 March, 14:30-16:30 How and why the British left India? - the impact of the 1857 Indian 'rebellion' Lecture 4. Thursday 22 March, 14:30-16:00 How France was forced to leave Indochina - a failure to withdraw?
April - Session 2 After 1945 - a new post-colonial world order - new multi-lateral organisations Lecture 6. Wednesday 25 April, 10:00-12:00 Britain and the new Commonwealth - in searching for a role after Empire Lecture 7. Wednesday 25 April, 14:30-16:30 France and the struggle over Algeria - a study of colonial legacy changing national politics Lecture 8. Thursday 26 April, 14:30-16:00 Post-colonialism in Europe - trade and migration
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Proposed essay topics: Session 1 1. “The problem of the 20th century has been colour.” Discuss this view of W Du Bois in the context of de-colonization, and post-colonial legacies in Europe, with examples. 2. Examine the key reasons for the growth of independence among former European colonies in the aftermath of the Second World War. 3. “At the stroke of the midnight hour… India will awake to life and freedom.” What key factors led to this clarion call from Nehru in 1947, and the end of the British Raj after 200 years? How was/is freedom safeguarded in the new Indian Republic? 4. Was the Partition of India caused by too much haste on the part of the British to end their rule of the country? How has Partition led to dispute and conflict in the years after Independence? 5. Discuss the ideas and role of M.K.Gandhi in the movement for decolonization in India, and globally.
Session 2 6. Why were the French so determined to retain control of Algeria, but not Morroco and Tunisia? Assess their strategies and explain in ou think they were mistaken? 7. Is the British Commonwealth just a a colonial legacy or can it be a viable body that promotes good governance and gives a voice to scores of smaller nations? Give example to back your arguments. 8. The Portuguese were the last European colonists to relinquish control of their colonies. Discuss why, and how continuing conflict shaped the futures of Angola and Mozambique? 9. What is meant by the term "guerrilla war" and why has it been successful? Why were such "guerrillas" able to resist first French and then American power? 10. Do you agree that a colonized nation and people can never fully escape their past? Explain why and discuss with regard to at least one detailed case study, and the work of Edward Said and other critics, and give some examples from literature and other sources. 11. Are we now in a post-colonial age? Discuss with reference to new forms and examples of neo-colonialism or imperialism. 12. Should rich European nations pay reparations to their former colonies ? Discuss with reference to ideas of colonialism, post-colonialism, and at least three examples or case studies.
Poslední úprava: Kłusek Johana, Mgr., Ph.D. (20.03.2018)
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