Antuoine Hunt-Strong

One essential concept for understanding the 20th-21st century is, colonialism.

Colonialism- Western/industrialized powers like the US, occupying another nation for foreign control of the nation for the purposes […]

From the lectures from Monday and Wednesday, Latin American countries shared a common theme of colonialism and transculturation. It was mentioned that legacies of colonialism included economic, political and […]

1. One of these thematic shapes were globalisation, where countries in Europe wanted to become more interconnected and have greater influence with the rest of Europe and the world. This thematic shape emerged […]

From this weeks readings and lectures, there were main themes of the racist nature of representations of Africa and the different experiences of decolonization. The racist nature of representations of Africa, […]

East Asia in the early 20th century had a main theme of nationalism. The most powerful nations in East Asia in the early 1990s were China, Japan and Korea. All three shared similar political ideals that were drawn […]

From the first half of the lecture on Wednesday, the guest professor talked mainly about Germany in the 1900s. He specifically referred to the Rhinelands and Ruhr Valley region of Germany. These parts of Germany […]

From the Beijing lecture from Wednesday, I didn’t know that the 1800s famine was as overwhelming as it was and affected most of China. I find it interesting that it caused out migration from Southeast Asia to the […]

I agree with Bright and Geyer, that the strategies adopted to cope with the conditions of globality have changed over the last 150 years, rather than the idea of globality itself. This is true because every […]