HIST103: World History in the Early Modern and Modern Eras (1600-Present)

5.4: Resistance to Imperialism

• 5.4.1: China: Opium Wars

  • Dr. Philip V. Allingham's "England and China: The Opium Wars, 1839-1860"

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• 5.4.2: China: Taiping and Boxer Rebellions

  • "Introduction to the Taiping Rebellion, 1850-1871"

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  • TDP Dugdale-Pointon's "The Boxer Rebellion, 1900"

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• 5.4.3: Sepoy Rebellion-India

  • Dr. George P. Landow's "The 1857 Indian Mutiny"

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  • Desmond Kuah's "The Epic of Race: The Indian Mutiny, 1857"

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• 5.4.4: Western Anti-Imperialist Movements

  • Platform of the American Anti-Imperialist League

    Organized shortly after the end of the Spanish American War in 1899, the Anti-Imperialist League opposed American occupation of Cuba and the Philippines. The League's political platform claims that the "forcible subjugation of any people" is un-American and unjust, and it argues that native populations should be able to govern themselves without interference by outside governments.