HIS
251: Making of Modern Asia
SYLLABUS Spring 2024 (pdf)
SYLLABUS Spring 2024 html
version
HISTORY DEPARTMENT
SCHOLARSHIPS
COLOR
KEY: STUDY GUIDES, MAPS, and POWERPOINTS VIDEOS
PART I: IMPERIALISM and COLONIALISM IN ASIA
Course
Introduction Powerpoint
MAP: Discovery,
Exploration, Trade and Colonization, 1486-1700
VIDEO: The Story of India: The Meeting of Two Oceans http://fod.infobase.com.libproxy.nau.edu/PortalPlaylists.aspx?wID=105280&xtid=41064
Study Guide #1: Emergence and Early Impact of British Rule in India
Section
One: Introduction Powerpoint
Section
One: India Powerpoint 1
Section
One: India Powerpoint 2
Section
One: India Powerpoint 3
MAP: Mughal
India
MAP: European Settlements in South Asia
MAP: India 1797-1805
Study Guide # 2: Early Modern China: Trade, Imperialism, Rebellion and Response Imbedded in this study guide are links to three useful outlines on early modern China created by Professor John Leung, which can also be accessed here at Traditional China , Manchu China , and Modalities of Chinese Responses
Study Guide # 2 in pdf format (3 pages)
Section
One: Introduction to China
Powerpoint
Opium Wars Introduction
Video Khan Academy
Section
One: Western Intervention in China Powerpoint
Section
One: Early Responses from China
Powerpoint
Section One:
Opium’s Empire (Amitav
Ghosh on the Ibis Trilogy) VIDEO
Section One: Connecting India
and China, River of Smoke
· Main
Characters in River of Smoke
Study Guide # 3: Early Modern Japan
Section One: Japan Powerpoint
01
Section One: Japan
Powerpoint 02
SECTION ONE
SUMMARY: COMPARATIVE COLONIAL EXPERIENCES AND
EARLY RESPONSES
PART II: COLONIALISM, REFORM, AND
NATIONALISM
Study Guide # 4: Indian Nationalism (to be used for Part III of the course as well)
Powerpoint: Early Nationalism in India
Study Guides # 5 China: Nationalism,
Reform and Revolution (The following guides have been compiled by
Prof. John Leung, to whom our deepest thanks for this effort!)
China
in [Nationalist] Revolution 1.Prelude to Revolution
Nationalist
Revolutions in China 1911-1919
Earlier
Outlines by Dr. Leung (here because they continue to be helpful guides to the
material)
China
in Nationalist Revolution 2: 1911
and Assessment
A link to the
the Powerpoint presentation by Dr. Leung on Nationalist
Revolutions in China
China: Reform to
Reform (.doc file) .htm file
China: Turning to Revolution (.doc file) .htm file
China:
Revolution to Revolution I (.doc file) .htm file
China:
Revolution to Revolution II (.doc file) .htm
file
Study Guide # 6: Meiji Japan Study Guide # 6 pdf version
PART III: ASIA IN THE MODERN WORLD:
REVOLUTIONS AND EMPIRES
Consequences
of Nationalism: Partition of India
Consequences
of Nationalism: Military Authoritarianism in Japan
Consequences
of Nationalism: Socialist Revolution in China
Study Guide # 7: Nationalism and Socialism in China .pdf version
Mughals to European Rule: An Outline with Links to Maps and Images
