Module 5.2 | Discussion Assignment

After reading chapters eight, nine, and ten, please. Then, we can turn our attention to the unification of Italy and Germany, exciting stories that have long-term implications. As well, as we prepare for WWI, we need to discuss imperialism and its role in global competition, exploitation, and Empire building.

Morocco! Morocco went from being a sovereign state, to being colonized and fought over by Spain and France (1905, 1911). The occupation of and subsequent competition for Morocco is part of the grab by imperial European powers of Africa. As such, it provides us with a great way of answering questions about imperialism, using Morocco to provide examples. What is the new imperialism? How does the New Imperialism differ from the Old Imperialism (or colonialism)? What was the role of technology in nineteenth-century imperialism? In what ways was European imperialism racist? How did the new technologies and racist ideologies employed in Morocco?

https://colonizationofmorocco.weebly.com/spanish-and-french-protectorate.html

http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHisto…

http://adst.org/2015/10/french-colony-to-sovereign…

http://www.sahara-online.net/eng/SaharaHistory/BeforeColonisation.aspx

Part two

Module 7.2 | Discussion Assignment (one main and one peer response)

Read chapters eleven, twelve, and thirteen for this week as we range from the volk movement (tied to the earlier Romanticism), to Marxism, to psychoanalysis, to fascism, and communist movements. This is a week of intellectual history, with an emphasis on the ideas that led to political and social changes.

Option A: What is volkism and how is it an outgrowth of Romanticism? How did it help give shape and form to Hitler and the Nazi ideology?