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University of Western Australia - Revolutionary China

This unit examines China's tumultuous history from the wellspring of Maoist revolution in 1930s Yen'an, the rapid spread of revolution throughout China, its culmination in the heady excesses of the Cultural Revolution and China's about-face in 1978 with the rise of market socialism under Deng Xiaoping and his successors. The unit introduces students to the revolutionary processes that forged a unified China and sowed the contradictions between Maoism and 'market socialism', so critical to understanding the social and political dynamics within The People's Republic today.
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University of Western Australia - Expanding the Raj: British Imperialism

This unit attempts to explain why Britain, after the American Revolution, built a vast new empire in Asia, Africa and the Pacific. The motives of empire building are examined along with the effects of Social Darwinism, racism and humanitarian paternalism. The unit pays particular attention to what has lately been called 'the theatre of empire' including the contrived splendour of Vice-Regal rule in India and popular images of empire in advertising, literature and missionary propaganda. The case in favour of British imperialism is measured against the critiques mounted by subject peoples and postcolonial theorists.
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University of Western Australia - (R)evolution in Southeast Asia

This unit introduces students to major themes in the history of Southeast Asia from the early twentieth century to the present day. The focus is on social and political change in three countries of contrasting historical experience. Thailand retained its political independence in the age of European colonialism, modernised under the auspices of an 'enlightened' monarchy, and preserves traditional Thai social values in an environment of modern capitalism. Vietnam was colonised by France in the nineteenth century and achieved independence and national reunification in the twentieth century through a 40-year 'war of national liberation' which revolutionised Vietnamese society. Cambodia found itself, for most of its recent history, caught both culturally and politically in the periodic rivalry between Thailand and Vietnam.
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University of Western Australia - Dynamics of Social Change in Modern China

The revolutionary events of twentieth-century China spawned immense social change. This unit explores major developments in spatial history, urbanisation and the growth of markets, the rise of new social classes, changing gender relations, and the merging of Confucian and communist values. Topics covered include social mobility; business and labour; crime and delinquency; policing and law; health and disease; gender and sexuality; westernisation and 'spiritual pollution'.
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University of Western Australia - Indonesian History: Fourteenth to Twentieth Centuries

This unit examines (1) Indonesian responses to the impact of major religions including Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam and Christianity; (2) environmental issues in Indonesian histories; (3) the nature and impact of regional and internal migrations; (4) Indonesian responses to early European, sea-based expansion by the Portuguese, Dutch and British (sixteenth to eighteenth centuries); (5) the nature and impact of colonialism under the Dutch (nineteenth to twentieth centuries); and (6) Indonesia’s experience of and contribution to major twentieth-century events.
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University of Western Australia - Nationalism and Modernity in Asia

This unit explores nationalism and revolution in societies with a shared Confucian tradition, tracks the types of modernisation which emerged and considers the ongoing impact of these developments.
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University of Western Australia - Outsiders! Marginal Australians

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University of Western Australia - Aboriginal Ways of Knowing

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University of Western Australia - Western Australian History and Heritage

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University of Western Australia - Australian Suburbia: History and Culture

Most of us live in suburbs yet we tend to disparage suburbia and its culture. This unit explores the issue by analysing the rise of suburbia. It begins by tracing the origins of Australian suburbs. It then analyses the way in which suburban spaces reflect power structures in society through the development of residential segregation and through gendered spaces within suburbia. Moving into the private domestic space the unit examines such issues as the impact of housing design on gender relations, home ownership, the meaning of the suburban garden and alternatives to the quarter-acre block. Aspects of the cultures that have been lived out within Australian suburbs are analysed through representations in novels and films and through the icons of suburbia—from Hills hoists to Holdens.
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University of Western Australia - Sudan to Saddam: Australia's Wars

This unit analyses Australia's wars and their domestic contexts. It deals with the wars on the Australian frontier, New Zealand Maori wars, the Sudan conflict, the Boer War, World Wars I and II, the Cold War, Korea, Vietnam and the Gulf wars and other conflicts involving Australians. It raises questions about the place of wars in national histories, myth and memory. It analyses representations of wars in media such as film and fiction, memory and memorial, art and architecture, and in ceremony and commemoration. It discusses the relationship between representations and the reality of war and the histories of Australia's wars written by Australian war historians.
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University of Western Australia - Australia and the 1960s

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University of Western Australia - The USA from Civil War to Superpower

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University of Western Australia - The USA since 1945

The end of WWII, paired with the rise of worldwide anticolonialism, brought about the demise of the old colonial order. This unit traces the United States in its rise to global prominence in the wake of these changes. It also examines the domestic successes of movements for social justice, including Civil Rights and feminism, but also the reactions to their successes such as the growth of the New Right, anti-immigrant movements and mass incarceration. It concludes with discussions of American neoliberalism, the War on Terror, and how everyday Americans and people beyond its borders would remake what they hoped would be the land of the free.
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University of Western Australia - Twentieth-century African-American History

From sharecropping in the Deep South to life in postindustrial cities, this unit examines African-American history and culture across the twentieth century. African Americans struggled for political rights against a white majority's massive resistance and, in the process, have held the United States accountable to its own ideals. By the end of the unit, students demonstrate expertise in African-American history, and critically apply the concepts of race, class, gender and nation.
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University of Western Australia - The Vikings

The early medieval history of Europe is often presented with a strong southern European bias—Europe from the standpoint of Rome or France. This unit attempts to redress the balance and to consider Europe in the eighth to twelfth centuries from the viewpoint of the Scandinavian peoples whose colonisation of England, Normandy, Ireland and Iceland had far-reaching effects on European social and political history. Students are given the opportunity to study primary sources, both by and about Vikings (such as sagas and chronicles).
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University of Western Australia - Gender and Sexualities in History

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University of Western Australia - The City in History

More than half the world’s people now live in cities, but what role have cities played in the past? This unit explores the dazzling history and heritage of the world’s great cities, through themes such as urban culture, environment and planning, gender roles, migration and race relations, as well as rebellion and protest. Among the cities studied may be the medieval and renaissance cities of Europe; the colonial cities of Africa and Asia; the old world cities of London, Vienna, Paris and St Petersburg; and the new world cities of North America and Australia.
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University of Western Australia - History, Fantasy and Tolkien's Worlds

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University of Western Australia - Medieval England 871–1272

This unit covers the political and economic history of England from the reign of King Alfred until the reign of Henry III. It explores how England in that period moved from being a non-entity, exemplified by its division into seven separate kingdoms in 865, to being an identifiable nation by 1272. Themes studied include the development of kingship and royal administration, the impact of the Danish and Norwegian Vikings in England between 865 and 1086, the Norman Conquest, and Angevin government in England culminating in the Magna Carta.
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University of Western Australia - Later Medieval England 1272–1485

This unit covers the political and economic history of England from the reign of Edward I until the reign of Richard III. It explores how England in that period moved from being an identifiable nation, but with inextricable French links to Europe in 1272, to being a distinct and different national state. Themes studied include the development of Parliament, the Black Death, the beginnings of the centuries-long rivalries with Scotland and France in the Hundred Years' War, the Wars of the Roses, and whether Richard III was a malevolent midget or a dynamic dwarf.
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University of Western Australia - The Renaissance in Europe c.1300–1520

This unit examines the dynamic and innovative urban societies of late medieval north and central Italy in which the renaissance had its origins. A study of the complex social, political, artistic and religious developments in Italy during this period reveals significant common features, such as the revival of art and literature as well as the spread of Humanism and the evolution of new political, intellectual and religious norms. These developments are viewed in the context of the wider social and economic transformation of Europe.
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University of Western Australia - The Crusades

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University of Western Australia - Environment and Technology in Australia

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University of Western Australia - Social History of Early Modern Europe

What was the cultural world which people in the period 1400 to 1750 inhabited? How did they respond to changes such as price rises, population growth and consumerism? Were their ideas about sexualities, families and childhood markedly altered by the religious changes known as the Reformation? These and other questions are addressed in this unit which focuses on society as a whole including the interactions between the elite and the masses. The unit considers issues of law and order, patterns of crime, the rise and decline of witchcraft prosecutions, and popular protests and uprisings. Level 3 students have extensive opportunities to work with various kinds of documentary evidence from the period, and reflect on the theories and methodologies that have shaped social history as a discipline. The Level 3 program includes detailed research training to prepare students to devise and pursue the large-scale research project of their own interests which is a major component of the unit.
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