Module ARA3162 for 2016/7
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
ARA3162: Britain in the Middle East, 1798-1977
This module descriptor refers to the 2016/7 academic year.
Module Aims
This module aims to provide you with a nuanced understanding of how and why empire and imperialism works on the ground, the roles played by the various actors, the motivations and perceptions of the people involved, and the theories that historians have developed to explain empire and imperialism as a political, economic, social, and cultural phenomenon. It aims to engage you in a detailed analysis of the subject, a critique of the assigned readings, and an ongoing debate of the different interpretations of the readings and the case studies in class.
On successfully completing the programme you will be able to: | |
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Module-Specific Skills | 1. Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of British involvement in the Middle East through eight country case studies. 2. Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of imperialism and the methodologies and theories used to study it.. |
Discipline-Specific Skills | 3. Understand how history is written and that history is only the attempt to represent and explain the past, it is not the past itself. 4. Read primary and secondary sources critically. 5. Employ theory in the interpretation of historical events. 6. Evaluate history and historical documents both orally and in writing. 7. Discuss and debate different historical explanations of past events and to respect different points of view about the past. 8. Understand and evaluate historical events, change, and continuity through multi-disciplinary approaches |
Personal and Key Skills | 9. Think critically about issues and events. organisation of data, time and project management skills 10. Formulate a coherent argument orally and in writing. 11. Work independently and in a group 12. Ability to give an effective oral presentation in public 13. Write analytical essays that synthesize secondary material and interpret primary sources. |
Indicative Reading List
This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.
Yoav Alon, The Making of Modern Jordan: Tribes, Colonialism and the Modern State (2007)
Glen Balfour-Paul, The End of Empire in the Middle East: Britain's Relinquishment of Power in Her Last Three Arab Dependencies (1991)
Michael Cohen & Martin Kolinsky (eds.), Demise of the British Empire in the Middle East: Britain's Response to Nationalist Movements, 1943-55 (1998)
Francis Deng & M. Daly, Bonds of Silk: The Human Factor in the British Administration of the Sudan (1989)
Michael Doyle, Empires (1986)
D. K. Fieldhouse, Western Imperialism in the Middle East, 1914-1958 (2006)
R. J. Gavin, Aden Under British Rule, 1839-1967 (1975)
Gudrun Kramer, A History of Palestine (2008)
Zach Levey & Elie Podeh (eds.), Britain and the Middle East (2007)
Elizabeth Monroe, Britain's Moment in the Middle East, 1914-1971 (1981)
James Onley, The Arabian Frontier of the British Raj: Merchants, Rulers, and the British in the Nineteenth-Century Gulf (2007)
James Onley, "Britain and the Gulf Shaikhdoms, 1820-1971: The Politics of Protection", CIRS Occasional Papers No. 4, Georgetown University (2009)
Roger Owen & Bob Sutcliffe (eds.), Studies in the Theory of Imperialism (1972)
Heather Sharkey, Living with Colonialism: Nationalism and Culture in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (2003)
Sarah Searight (ed.), Britain and Iran: 1790-1980: Collected Essays of Sir Denis Wright (2003)
Daniel Silverfarb, Britain's Informal Empire in the Middle East: A Case Study of Iraq, 1929-1941 (1986)
Peter Sluglett, Britain in Iraq (1976; rev. edn., 2007)
Bernard Wasserstein, The British in Palestine: The Mandatory Government and the Arab-Jewish Conflict, 1917-1929 (1978; rev. edn. 1991).
William Welch, No Country for a Gentleman: British Rule in Egypt, 1883-1907 (1988)
Mary Wilson, King Abdullah, Britain and the Making of Jordan (1987)
Denis Wright, The English amongst the Persians (1977; rev. edn. 2001)