Syllabus

Unit 1: Enslaved Resistance in the British Americas from the 17th -19th Century

Week 2. What is the History of Resistance?

Week 3. Rebellion and Abolitionism in Colonial America and the Caribbean

Week 4. Everyday Resistance

Week 5. Resistance on Trial

Week 6. Reading Week

Week 7. Resistance in the Metropole

Week 8. Suppressing Resistance, Acquiescing to Abolition?

Unit 2: The Indian Uprising (1857)

Week 9. Early Colonisation and Company Rule 1600-1857

Week 10. The Indian Uprising, 1857

Week 11. Resistance from Below?

Week 12. Counter-Insurgency and Martial Law

Week 13. Legacies of the Uprising in India and Beyond

Unit 3: The Evolution of Nationalist Consciousness in the Twentieth Century

Week 14. Seeds of Resistance, 1857-1901

Week 15. Single-Issue Rebellions, 1900-1939

Week 16. Reading Week

Week 17. Rebellion during WW1

Week 18. The Development of Elite Nationalist Movements, 1918-1960

Week 19. 'Peasant Consciousness', 'Popular Politics' and the study of Nationalism 'From Below', 1918-1960

Week 20. Contesting and Shaping Decolonisation

Week 21. Decoloniality Today