Schedule

Unit Portals

Check the relevant unit below for the assignment for each class period. If you have trouble accessing linked material or have any other questions, please check directly with Mr. Hall.

Unit 1: Theorizing empire
- Discussion of empire in Japanese and global frame.
Unit 2: Origins of empire
- Late Tokugawa, Western contact, the Meiji Restoration, and education in Meiji Japan.
Unit 3: New configurations of race and power
- Social Darwinism, evaluating case for and against imperialism as "planned," and clashes with China and Russia.
Unit 4: Formal and informal empire
- Examining instances of each form of empire in Korean and Chinese contexts.
Unit 5: Assimilation, collaboration, and resistance
- Analyzing history and memory.
Unit 6: War in China and the Pacific
- Escalation of hostilities and war atrocities (with particular focus on Nanjing),
- War on the home front, Pearl Harbor, surrender, and the war's immediate aftermath.
Unit 8: "Issues of history"
- For Unit 8, see Research page for information on culminating project.