SOCS 635
New England and Empire
Indira Karamcheti
| Course Schedule | |
| January 25 | Introduction
Kaplan, "Left Alone with America" |
| February 1 | Imperial Education
Potts, from Wesleyan University (handout) Viswanathan, "The Naming of Yale College" (handout) |
| February 8 | Stover at Yale (packet) |
| February 15 | Colonizing the "Indians"
ESSAY #1 DUE IN CLASS Demos, The Unredeemed Captive |
| Saturday, February 19 |
FIELD TRIP TO PEQUOT MUSEUM |
| February 22 | West Indies Trade and Slavery
Conde, I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem Northeast Magazine, "Complicity: How Connecticut Chained Itself to Slavery" |
| February 29 | The Yankee Peddler
Film, Mosquito Coast |
| March 1 | Brahmins in Boston
ESSAY #2 DUE IN CLASS Elsie Venner (packet) |
| MARCH 5-20: SPRING BREAK | |
| March 22 | Imperial Evangelicalism
RESEARCH PAPER PROSPECTUS DUE IN CLASS Drake, "Protestant Geography in China" Hayford, "Chinese and American Characteristics" Liu, "Translating National Character" |
| March 29 | The China Trade
Alcott, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom |
| Saturday, April 2 | FIELD TRIP TO SALEM, PEABODY-ESSEX MUSEUM |
| April 5 | Teddy Bear Imperialism
Turner, from The Frontier in American History Roosevelt, from The Winning of the West Roosevelt, from The Rough Riders |
| April 12 | Michaels, "Anti-Imperial Americanism"
Beisner, from Twelve Against Empire |
| April 19 | Imperial Culture
Wharton, The Age of Innocence Stevenson, from The Victorian Homefront |
| April 26 | Conclusions: Final project/paper presentations
RESEARCH PAPER DUE IN CLASS |