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Course Schedule - Spring Semester 2027
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HIST 532 001 (CRN: 26600)
INTERROGATING NATIONS&EMPIRES
Long Title: EMPIRES, COLONIES, AND NATIONS: COLONIALISM, ANTI-COLONIALISM, AND STATE FORMATION IN MODERN DAY
Department: History
Instructor: Takriti, Abdel Razzaq
Meeting: 2:00PM - 4:30PM M (11-JAN-2027 - 23-APR-2027)
Part of Term: Full Term
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Language of Instruction: Taught in English
Method of Instruction: Face to Face
Credit Hours: 3
Course Syllabus:
Course Materials: Rice Campus Store
Restrictions:
Must be enrolled in one of the following Level(s):
Graduate
Section Max Enrollment: 12
Section Enrolled: 0
Enrollment data as of: 2-NOV-2026 1:36AM
Final Exam: No Final Exam
Description: This course interrogates the historical origins of imperialism, colonialism, and the modern nation state on a global scale. Topics may include: the emergence of modern empires; the relationship between capitalism and imperialism; the connection between racialist and colonialist thought; the development of settler-colonialism; the spread of nationalism; anti-colonialism and its socialist, republican, and other variants; the relationships and tensions between empire and liberalism, empire and sovereignty, as well as empire and citizenship; and the mutual constitution of empire, statehood, and colonialism, decolonialism, borderlands, and the political subject; how peoples are permitted to become nations; the process of state formation in the imperial metropoles and the former colonies; and the limits of the post-Second World War global order.