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Class
Schedule: Week 4
Tuesday,
September 23
Topic
of Discussion:
Setting
the Stage for the New Imperialism
Readings:
Excerpts
from Thomas Carlyle, "The Nigger Question" (1849)
[Blackboard]
John Stuart
Mill, "The Negro Question" (1850) [Blackboard]
Alfred
Russel Wallace, "The Development of Human Races under the Law of
Natural Selection" (1864) [Blackboard]
Thursday,
September 25
Topic of Discussion:
Mid-Victorian
Travel Writing
Readings:
Excerpts
from Richard Burton, Sir Richard Burton's Travels in Arabia and Africa
(1866) [Blackboard]
Excerpts
from Harriet Martineau, Eastern Life, Past and Present (1848)
[Blackboard]
Excerpts
from Florence Nightingale, Letters from Egypt (1854) [Blackboard]
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