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VIi. Diverse Interpretations
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Topics for VI. AP Themes: 1914-Present
The Anglo Zulu War
The Great Battle
The first of these two sites gives an account of the British debacle at Isandhlwana by a British historian. Compare that treatment with the second site, which offers an African nationalist perspective of the incident that predates the end of apartheid. From these accounts, was this battle a victory or a defeat for Africans? Do the African politician and the British historian's views on the subject differ due to their nationality? Their professions? Do their views differ?
 The Anglo Zulu War
The Great Battle
Imperialism: Historical Periodization or Present-Day Phenomenon?
This site offers an essay that suggests that conceptualizing the era of high imperialism as a feature of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, an "era of the past," inhibits understanding of the forces at work in the contemporary world.
Imperialism: Historical Periodization or Present-Day Phenomenon?
A Bipolar World
Dollar Diplomacy Returns
These sites offer a discussion and sources for discussion of the question of human rights across time and in recent debates about "inalienable rights" and the "Western and Non-Western" views of the subject.
A Bipolar World
Dollar Diplomacy Returns
Paradigms Lost: History in the Post-Postwar Era
A leading scholar of Asia critiques the assumption that recent global trends move everywhere as they have in the West (industrialization leading to greater human equality) and finds it misleading.
Paradigms Lost: History in the Post-Postwar Era
The Myth of Neo-Colonialism
An African writer challenges the African nationalist view that colonialism is responsible for African poverty.
The Myth of Neo-colonialism
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