Imperialism - World history

Imperialism Assignment
Rubric 


Before you get started you need to figure out the following:

1. Your country name then and now (may or may not be the same)
2. Where in the world your country is located (a continent helps, but neighbors are important too - remember that borders change [people don't, but that's a whole other project])
3. When your country was colonized (may be more than one period)
4. Who colonized your country (may be more than one colonizer)
5. How your country is doing these days - got Egypt???

To do this, I suggest:

The following is a list of websites that will get you started on this:

• CIA World Factbook
• The World Bank Countries & Regions
• New York Times Countries and Territories
• UN Country Profiles

Kiosko.net World news services organized geographically. Use BabelFish to translate.

Twitter: Use Kiosko.net above to find out the major news publications for your country, then follow those on Twitter (i.e.Al-Jazeera is @AJELive on Twitter).

Use the hashtag (#) to search Twitter (#syria for example) to identify keywords that will help you when you turn to the databases for research. Look at the example below, and the the following list of keywords, which are taken straight from the search in the screenshot.

• Colvin
• Summit
• Death
• Injur*
• Minist*
• Journalist*

If your country is in complete flux at the moment (i.e. Syria), you may consult Wikipedia BUT you need to check the following to evaluate the passage's validity:

• View History (top right)
• Check user activity (for example, as of this writing, the most recent Egypt article editors include a person who mostly edits movies, and a person who mostly edits foreign policy articles - which one are you going to trust more? BTW, you can't answer that question based on the provided information. The foreign policy editor might be completely biased whereas the person who just edited Lilo and Stitch might have spent the last two weeks among protesters. Who knows? - You have to carefully review the edits to find out!)
• See also
• Notes
• References
• External Links

By the time you do all this, the aforementioned resources may seem more appealing!

Online catalog:
THERE"S AN APP FOR THAT!!!

Remember there are are lots of terms that will help you search for imperialism. See graphic above for ideas.

Many books are organized chronologically, so if you have the time-frame for the colonial (imperial) period, it should be pretty easy to find.

Remember the eBooks are under Digital Resources in DestinyQuest

Databases:

To access the database page, type in the library's generic user name and password, not your personal user name and password! You know the generic one, right? If not, it's in your planner ---->


Recommended databases:


Country overviews:

• Encyclopaedia Britannica
• CultureGrams
  
• Gale Virtual Reference Library
  
• ABC-CLIO: World Geography
• CultureGrams

Historical databases

• ABC-CLIO World History: The Modern Era 
• History in Context (App for That! - Gale AML)
  
  Using the advanced search features will help you limit your search results to articles that cover a specific time period like India between 1800 and 1849. This is a good strategy if a combined search term search doesn’t work, like India AND colon*

Global perspective

• Access World News(foreign news, including Al-Jazeera)
• Global Issues in Context (tries to bring non-western perspective to controversial topics in world affairs)Global perspective (App for That! - Gale AML)

News then and now

• Newsstand (Huge database of contemporary periodical publications).Use the Advanced search! Use your Twitter search terms to construct your search! Be use to use the “place name” delimiter and select your country!

• ProQuest Historical Hartford Courant (goes back to 1750!) Remember this from Rev. Diaries?
  
• ProQuest Historical Newspapers (starts at 1850) Remember this from Rev. Diaries?

We also have Punch magazines in hard copy starting in the late 1890s. This is an English magazine. These include very interesting political cartoons about decolonization/independence.

Market share: The following link will provide market share for most free market economies - Cuba, and North Korea, you guys will have to do this the long way ;-|

International Trade Statistics: <http://www.intracen.org/tradstat/sitc3-3d/indexre.htm>

If you can't see your market share, you will need to compute it. Instructions follow:

The $ value of one commodity
export for your country (A)              X

__________________________   = ______

The $ value of that commodity's
trade in the global market (B)        100

Multiply A by 100, then divide it by B, and you have your market share.

Here are a few more resources for economic data:

United Nations International Merchandise Trade Statistics: <http://comtrade.un.org/pb/CountryPagesNew.aspx?y=2008>

World Exports: http://www.worldexportsimports.com/

Tutorials:
Research process
Formatting bibliographies
In-text references

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19th Century Intellectuals

Dr. Schneider's assignment

Possible topics:

This list is divided into two categories - biographically driven (top) and concept driven  (bottom) ideology.  That will determine which sources you consult. 

To research people and their ideas, use biographical references first.

To research concepts, consult resources about philosophy, epistemology, ideology, and history.

Topic	Dr. Schneider’s questions	Additional search ideas
Comte	Can reason alone create harmonious societies?  How could Comte help the United Nations?	Kind of the opposite of Machiavelli  - Trust? Think about parenting & education – strictness v. reason...
Darwin	To what extent is Darwin’s theory accepted today as fact?  Is there any evidence of acceptance of the ideas of Social Darwinism today?	Theory of Evolution, class, social class, socioeconomic, equity, elite
Durkheim	Are statistics misleading?  Have we lost our “common values”?	Manipulation, data, evidence, facts
Freud	Why is Freud “analyzed”?  Has psychology helped us or made us neurotic about our neuroses?	Analysis, psych*, oedipal, complex, neuro*
G. B. Shaw	Why was Shaw so controversial?  Is “Theater of the Absurd” absurd?	“theater of the absurd”, also consider “theatre of the absurd” to include multinational interpretation
Haussmann	To what extent did the redesign of cities help all people?  What are our current challenges in urban planning?	“urban spraul”, suburb*, inner-city
Marx	Why are the Russians electing Communists again?   What percentage of people in former Communist states now vote?  Our Communist Party is tiny.  Why?	Communism, socialism, democracy, elect*, “political representation”, state-owned, party, parties
Nietzsche	Can we “will to power”—be anything we want as long as we work hard and have some ability?  Does it matter how we accomplish our goals?  Is Any Rand right?	American Dream, entrepreneur*, industrious*
Pankhurst	Has the evolution of women’s rights contributed to the “breakdown of the family”?  In what ways has society benefited from the women’s movement?  What are NCHS views on the subject?	Feminism, gender role*, nuclear family, Eagle Forum
Van Gogh	Is Impressionism overrated?  Is modern art “garbage”?	Impressionism, “modern art”
Weber	Is the study of sociology a valid discipline or just biased observations?	“social structures”, “societal roles”
Challenges to Christianity	Did late 19thc. Theologians “kill God”?	Agnositic*, atheist*
Changes in the Roman Catholic church	Then and now…	Catholic*, Vatican, Pope
Consumerism	Were there any drawbacks to the development of department stores and consumerism?  What is the role of consumerism today?	Commercial*, material*
Imperialism	Are multi-national corporations just a form of “economic imperialism”?  Why should Eastern Europe and China welcome IBM?  To what extent is investment in the third world profitable?	Multinational, conglomerate, business, corpora*, “developing countries”, “developing nations”
Literature	How are “modernism” and “postmodernism” related?  Has the Deconstruction movement enlightened us?	Modernism,  Postmodernism,  Deconstruction
Music	How has music changed during the past 100 years?  To what extent do the styles reflect values of the period?	Names of music genres
Physics	How did Einstein alter our view of the world?  Is Bill Gates the new Einstein?	“Steve Jobs”?
Public health	How has medicine changed during the past 100 years?  What are the current controversies?	Medicine, bio*, pharmaceutical*
Racism	To what extent did Gobineau Chamberlain influence racism today?	Prejudice, equity, opportunity,
The Jewish experience	Why did the Dreyfus Affair create so much tension?  What are the vestiges of anti-Semitism in Europe today?	Diaspora
Unions	Have unions outlived their usefulness?  Is there a “workers’ plight” today?	Labor, strike
Welfare	Are the “welfare states” in Europe bankrupting their countries?  Is socialized medicine a viable approach?	Dole, “Great Society”
Zionism	How have the motives and methods of Zionism changed over time?	Zionis*

Use the online catalog, Destiny, to access eBooks and other library resources.You must log in to access the full collection. Use your school user name and password. Instructions for downloading Destiny App instructions.

Databases

Use the generic user name and password to access the library's database page. 

• Biographical databases:
• Biography in Context
• Gale Virtual Reference Library

Ideological databases:

• Gale Virtual Reference Library
• Expanded Academic ASAP (scholarly journals)
• EBSCO - Academic Search Premier

Contemporary periodicals - implications for 21st century

• NewsStand
• EBSCO - MasterFILE Premier

The invisible or deep web will be excellent for this. Check out the links in the left sidebar. for that. It's clunky, but those resources are not accessible through a Google search and they tend to be excellent for this kind of research - lots of academic resources, as will Google Scholar (advanced search). See below.

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