Cross-Cultural World History

• • Cross-Cultural Contact: Rethinking Colonial History
  • The Legacies of Slavery: A Cross-Cultural Approach to World History
  • Pacific First Contact: On the Beach
  • Early Sydney: Intercultural Exchange?
  • Sex and Intermarriage: Gender and Race in the Colonies
  • Performance and Display: The Case of Sara Baartman
  • Museums and Exhibits: A Cross-Cultural History of Things

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Cross-Cultural World History investigates the experience of colonisation from both sides of contact (c.1700-1950) and in light of cross-cultural exchanges involving gender and sexuality, trade, travel narratives, conflict and law, and intercultural exchanges between coloniser and colonised. It will cover a range of historical case studies and approaches to cross-cultural contact in world history including in the New World, Australasia and the Pacific and North America, and through applying recent theories of 'contact', space and bodies; the transnational circulation of ideas, people and things; and the place of intercultural exchange in the broader context of colonial violence.

• Minor Essay (30%)
• Reading Review (10%)
• Quizzes (20%)
• Major Essay (30%)

Current study term: 06 Nov 22 to 15 Jan 23