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HIST 3060 - Three Empires: Spain, Germany, France

North Terrace Campus - Semester 2 - 2023

Co-taught in English by Faculty members in the Department of European Languages, and Linguistics, this course offers a historical review of European building from a non-British perspective. The course will explore the imperialistic (and anti-imperialistic) projects of Spain, France and Germany and their contribution to the shaping of the contemporary world. This course will present itself as an opportunity to implement approaches to decolonise our minds by putting forward marginalised voices through a diversified corpus of post-colonial literatures, who tell history from their perspective. This course will give the keys to understand the historical, political and socio-cultural contexts of non British empires and confront the perspectives of the colonised and the colonisers. Moreover, the questions addressed will be put in dialogue with current issues in order to train students in critical thinking and to give them tools to deconstruct the problematic schemes that still exist in our society today. From the Spanish imperial program running from the 15th to the 18th century, to the colonisation of New Guinea by Germany in the 19th century, to the still immense impact of French as a colonial language in Francophone countries and regions around the world, this course examines the past and present consequences of imperial culture, but also aims to empower under-represented writers, artists and communities.

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