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Availability: Not offered in 1996.
Credit points: 16.7 2nd and 3rd years
Coordinator: Dr A Mayne.
Prerequisite: Normally, 25 points of first year History.
Contact: Two 1-hour lectures and one 1-hour tutorial per week.
Objectives:
By the end of the subject, students will be able to place the study of Australian history into broader regional, chronological and thematic contexts, concentrating on the Pacific Rim since early European settlement.
Content:
The subject will provide a selective thematic overview of the history of the Pacific Rim since the first European intrusions during the sixteenth century. Its core concern will be to explore human relations and cultural transmission, as mediated by distance, technology, and regional networking. The subject will focus upon European settlement along the Australian eastern seaboard and the western seaboard of Canada and the United States, with comparative reference to the parallel histories of European settlement in New Zealand, South America, and the Russian Pacific territories, and to the relationships of these settler societies with China and Japan. It will direct attention especially to a selection of the region's port cities: Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Vancouver, San Francisco, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Yokohama, Vladivostok, to interactions between them, and to their competitive penetration of regional hinterlands.
Assessment:
One research essay (60%) and one end of semester reflective paper (40%), totalling 5,000 words.
Prescribed texts:
1. History, Faculty of Arts (v3, p101) : Next:131-240 | Prev:131-237
2. History, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p127) : Next:131-240 | Prev:131-237
Availability: Not offered in 1996.
Credit points: 16.7 2nd and 3rd years
Coordinator: Dr A Mayne.
Contact: Two 1-hour lectures and one 1-hour tutorial each week.
Objectives:
By the end of the course, students will be able to place the study of Australian history into broader regional, chronological and thematic contexts, concentrating on the Pacific Rim since early European settlement.
Content:
The course will provide a selective thematic overview of the history of the Pacific Rim since the first European intrusions during the sixteenth century. Its core concern will be to explore human relations and cultural transmission, as mediated by distance, technology, and regional networking. The course will focus upon European settlement along the Australian eastern seaboard and the western seaboard of Canada and the United States, with comparative reference to the parallel histories of European settlement in New Zealand, South America, and the Russian Pacific territories, and to the relationships of these settler societies with China and Japan. It will direct attention especially to a selection of the region's port cities: Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Vancouver, San Francisco, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Yokohama, Vladivostok, to interactions between them, and to their competitive penetration of regional hinterlands.
Assessment:
One research essay (60 per cent) and one end of semester reflective paper (40 per cent); totalling 5,000 words.
Prescribed texts:
* Note that ASSESSMENT, CONTACT, CONTENT, OBJECTIVES, PRESCRIBEDTEXTS differs from the maintainer's version above. A log of variations is available.
2. History, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p127) : Next:131-240 | Prev:131-237
Status: Official 1996 Date created: Oct 9 1995 Last modified: Oct 9 1995 Authorised by: Academic Registrar Email enquiries: Course_Information@registrar.unimelb.edu.au
Maintained by: Dept. of History, Faculty of Arts.
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