Feb 17: outline for class
Imperialism in the Middle East and South Asia

is the US an imperial power today?

imperialisms are multiple
        3 “traditional Islamic” empires contemporary with European expansion:
                Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal

here European imperialism, especially at expense of Ottoman Empire
        flash points: Bosporus, Suez, Central Asia
        roles of Britain, France and Russia; Germany

two sequences, just as for foundations or Glorious Age lectures / weeks
        events
        interpretation of events

multiple forms of control
        the seas (NB Portuguese - Ottoman competition)
        the technology of communication and transport
        the technology of destruction (armaments)
        industrial production of all kinds
        searching for supplies of raw materials and markets for manufactures
                oil
        the financial infrastructure
        the intellectual and scientific infrastructure:
        the definition of issues:
                human rights, conventions, environmental, health, etc.
        the land: physical territorial occupation (colonialism or colonial rule)
                India, Egypt, other Arab areas
                areas that remain independent
                        nature of that independence

Napoleon in Egypt, 1798-1801: why such a marker?

what Said has to say about this

imperialism sets processes in motion
        secularism and secularization
        nationalism and strong ethnic consciousness:
                Benjamin Anderson’s “imagined communities”
        technological modernization and modernity
                including military
        Western education and press
        capitalism
                in ambiguous relationship with imperialism?
        democracy and democratization
                in conflict with imperialism?

responses of individuals and communities in the Middle East
        often the minorities (Christians especially, Jews, and “heterodox” Muslims)
        Pan-Islamism and Abdulhamid; title of caliph;
                Landau report