Talk:2008-09 BM2 Introduction to Anglophone Cultural Studies, Part 1

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Ich hatte im 1. Semester die glorreiche Idee BM2 zu schieben. Als "Ersti" hatte ich das Gefühl nicht alles gut genug schaffen zu können, wenn ich mich auf soviel konzentriere. Nun kann ich leider viele Aufbaumodule nicht belegen, weil BM2 vorausgesetzt wird. Ist es möglich wenn ich jetzt mit dem BM2 anfange parallel so ein Blockseminar im Februar zu besuchen? Dann hätte ich ja wenigstens den 1. Teil vom BM2 schon mal. Ärgerlich. Da habe ich mich wohl im 1. Semester verkalkuliert.

...schon per e-mail geregelt, machen wir, auch im Interesse des Blockseminars. --Olaf Simons 15:25, 27 August 2008 (CEST)
Dann wäre eine für alle sichtbare Antwort an dieser Stelle sinnvoll (gewesen), da ich mir denken kann, dass diese Frage mehrere Studenten haben (und hier gucken, ob es eine Antwort darauf gibt). Deshalb fake edit. Verena Engelhardt 15:26, 27 August 2008 (CEST)

Wo steht eigentlich nochmal die Info welche chapter wir jedesmal vorbereiten sollen?

Die Fragen am Ende der letzten Vorlesung haben es wieder einmal gezeigt; Keiner weiß, was man denn genau lernen muss für die Klausur. Und irgendwie habe ich pers. auch den Eindruck dass zwischen den Lektoren keine Übereinstimmung bezüglich dieser Frage herrscht. Das ganze wirkt dann auch auf die Tutoriengestaltung, und mittlerweile sind es nur noch ca. 10 Personen, die erscheinen(Freitags zumindest).Dimitri.simons 17:41, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

Hier eine kurze Vorinformation zum written test
  • Dauer: 60 Minuten + etwas Reservezeit
  • Teil 1: (30 Minuten) kurze Faktenfragen, möglicherweise multiple choice, die in die verschiedenen Bereiche gehen und Breite des gemeinwissens erfassen
  • Teil 2: Zwei Fragen (Bearbeitungszeit je 15 Minuten) auszuwählen aus sechs Fragen (zu verschiedenen Gebieten der Vorlesung) - mit dem Ziel, Raum für eine knappe Darstellung von Zusammenhänge respektive Argumentationen zu geben
Vorbereitung: Wir werden in der Sitzung zum 17. Dezember zwei Listen ausgeben. Die erste besteht aus Daten und Ereignissen, die Euch etwas sagen müssen, die zweite, nennt Personen, über deren historische Bedeutung ihr ein knappes Bild haben solltet. Ihr könnt die Informationen aus den Powerpoint Folien beziehen oder aus Medien wie Wikipedia.
Die sechs eingehenderen Fragen, aus denen Ihr zwei auszuwählen habt, um 15 Minuten darüber zu schreiben nehmen Fragen auf, die in den Präsentationen gestellt wurden. --Olaf Simons 16:16, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

Timeline

  • 700,000 years ago: human settlements on later British soil, the later British Islands still part of the continental shelf. Several several glacial and interglacial periods in which hunter-gatherers appear and reappear
  • 70,000 and 10,000 years ago: last ice age, extreme cold snap between 22,000 and 13,000 years ago
  • 7500 to 6000 years ago: Meltwater causes see level rise of 120 m, and separation of Ireland from Britsh mainland, and of British isles from continental shelf
  • Stone age settlements by peoples who might have sopken an early version of modern Basque (genetic evidence, megalith culture)
  • 3100-1600 BC Stonehenge in use. Similar constructs of megalith culture can be found all over western Europe
  • 500-50 BC predominance of Celtic culture. map, distribution till 50 BC. Different theories based on linguistic and genetic evidence:
  • 43-410 Romanisation of Celts in modern England
  • 122/142 Hadrian’s and Antonine walls against northern Picts map
  • 408-410 Romans leave Great Britain, power vacuum, waves of Saxons, Angels and Jutes found kingdoms on British soil
  • 597 Begin of Christianisation under St. Augustin
  • 793 Lindisfarne raided by Vikings, next three centuries: Viking settlements in northern England
  • 1014-1042 Danish Rule, Aethelred forced to flee to France, succession ends with son of Canute the Great
  • 1066 Battle of Hastings, Franco-Norman William I becomes English King. See Wikipedia on Norman Conquest of England
  • 1215 John Lackland has to grant the Magna Carta to avoid conflict with English barons, parliament and civil rights strengthened
  • 1339-1453 Hundred Years War against France, rise of English Nationalism
  • 1453-1487 War of the Roses: Dynastic Conflict
  • 1497-1583 Newfoundland claimed by England
  • 1585-1604 Conflicts with Spain (Francis Drake and the Armada) over Naval Supremacy and Spanish Netherlands (modern Belgium) and Ireland.
  • 1756-1763 The Seven Years' War: Ends France position as a major colonial power in the Americas
  • 1650: Connecticut legalizes slavery.
  • 1661: Virginia officially recognizes slavery by statute.
  • 1662: A Virginia statute declares that children born would have the same status as their mother.
  • 1663: Maryland legalizes slavery.
  • 1664: Slavery is legalized in New York and New Jersey.

Great Britain and Westindies

Great Britain and India

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Colonies

Great Britain and Australia

Great Britain and New Zealand

Great Britain and Canada

Great Britain and the Suez Canal

  • 1854, 1856 Ferdinand de Lesseps obtains a concession from Said Pasha, viceroy of Egypt, to create a company to construct a canal open to ships of all nations, according to plans created by Austrian engineer Alois Negrelli
  • 1869 after 11 years of work (based on the forced work of over 30,000 people, Canal opened. Combined with the American transcontinental railroad completed six months earlier
  • it allows the entire world to be circled in record time
  • plays an important role in increasing European penetration and colonization of Africa
  • 1875 External debts force Said Pasha's successor, Isma'il Pasha, to sell his country's share in the canal for £4,000,000 to the United Kingdom, France remains the majority shareholder. Prime minister Benjamin Disraeli accused by William Gladstone of undermining Britain's constitutional system, due to his lack of reference or consent from Parliament when purchasing the shares with funding from the Rothschilds
  • 1882 British troops protect channel during civil war in Egypt
  • 1888 Convention of Constantinople declares canal a neutral zone under the protection of the British
  • 1936 Anglo-Egyptian Treaty allows UK to retain control over the canal
  • 1951 Egypt repudiates the treaty
  • 1954 UK agrees to remove its troops
  • 1956 withdrawal completed in July 1956

Great Britain and Africa

  • 1795 Cape Colony, established by the Dutch East India Company in 1652, occupied by the British in 1795 (after French occupied the Netherlands) long history of conflicts with Dutch settlers begins
  • 1882 Egypt occupied Suez Canal
  • 1896 Rhodesia founded by Cecil Rhodes and his privately owned British South Africa Company (independece 1980 under the name Zimbabwe)
  • 1896–1914 Sudan, Nigeria, Kenya and Uganda brought under British Rule
  • 1902 UK completes its military occupation of the Transvaal and Free State by concluding a treaty with the two Boer Republics following the Second Boer War 1899-1902. The four colonies of Natal, Transvaal, Free State and Cape Province form the Union of South Africa in 1910

Commonwealth of Nations

Great Britain grants Dominion status to the already self-governing colonies of Canada (1867), Australia (1901), New Zealand (1907), Newfoundland (1907), and the newly created Union of South Africa (1910)

USA

  • American Notes Library of Congress. Travels in America, 1750-1920 comprises 253 published narratives by Americans and foreign visitors recounting their travels in the colonies and the United States and their observations and opinions about American peoples, places, and society from about 1750 to 1920.

Native Population

War of Independence

Civil War

Foreign Politics general

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_policy_of_the_United_States

USA and Latin America

  • 1845 -Annexation of Republic of Texas; Mexico breaks relations in retaliation
  • 1846-1848 US-Mexican War over Texas
  • 1912-25 - Nicaragua; America controls Nicaraguan affairs through puppet Conservative Party presidents under the Bryan-Chamorro Treaty
  • 1915-34 Haiti. U.S. forces maintained order and control customs revenue during a period of chronic political instability.
  • 1952 Guatemala. Central Intelligence Agency attempts to overthrow Guatemalan president Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán in collaboration with Nicaraguan leader Anastasio Somoza García, authorized by President Truman. The mission is known as Operation PBFORTUNE.
  • 1954 Guatemala. Dwight D. Eisenhower authorizes Operation PBSUCCESS, a program of "psychological warfare and political action" and "subversion," that succeeds in removing the government of Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán with the help of Guatemalan military general Carlos Castillo Armas.
  • 1965 Intervention in Dominican Republic
  • 1973 Chilean military coup against Salvador Allende given American approval
  • 1979-90 Nicaragua; America supports the Contras fighting against the Sandinista government in Nicaragua.
  • 1983 U.S. invades Grenada in response to a coup d’état by Deputy Prime Minister Bernard Coard on the Caribbean island.
  • 1990 Panama; America invades to oust Manuel Noriega

USA and Europe

1980s: 5.000 nuclear warheads in Germany (today 480 in Europe, 10-20 Fliegerhorst Büchel, Rheinland-Pfalz)

USA and East Asia

  • 1899-1902 Philippine-American War, invasion, ends with Fall of First Philippine Republic, land acquisition by American companies, destabilisation of Catholic church and long term efforts to introduce English as lingua franca
  • World War II - against Japan, use of first Atom bombs against Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1946, begion of cold war confrontation
  • 1950-1953 Proxi Korean War of North against South Korea
  • 1959-1975 Vietnam War (also Second Indochina War) with history of confrontations involving Kambodia, Laos and Vietnam and European powers

USA and Middle East

  • 1953 Together with UK: support of coup d'état that deposed the government of Prime Minister Mohammed Mosaddeq and his cabine
  • 1979-1989 Operation Cyclone, code name for the United States Central Intelligence Agency program to arm the Afghan mujahideen during the Soviet war in Afghanistan
  • 1990-1991 Gulf War after Iraq attacked Kuwait
  • 1992-1993 US take part in UNITAF mission to stifle civil war in Somalia
  • 2001-2008 War in Afghanistan
  • 2003-2008 Iraq War
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