Curriculum Module: The Making of the Modern World

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Most accounts of the modern world, or ‘modernity’, define it in relation to the processes of industrialization and democratization that were seen to occur in Western Europe in the long nineteenth century. These processes, having been initiated in Europe, were then believed to have spread around the rest of the world. Such narratives are deficient in at least two ways. First, they fail to address the broader contexts of dispossession, colonization, enslavement, and appropriation that were the conditions of the ‘European’ revolutions. Second, they rarely acknowledge other historical events and processes as equally significant in the ‘making of the modern world’. In this module, Prof. Gurminder K. Bhambra walks through the ways in which colonial processes have structured both the making of the modern world and the accounts of the modern world.

List of Lectures

Each lecture includes a lesson plan document, a video, and a few suggested readings.
  1. The Haitian Revolution
  2. Colonial Dispossession and Extraction
  3. Enclosures and The Making of the Modern World
  4. Gendering Modernity: Black Feminist Perspectives
  5. Gendering Modernity: Postcolonial and Decolonial Perspectives
  6. Indian Indenture in the British Empire
  7. Decolonisation

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