CLASS LINKS




HST 104, World History Since 1500

  • Primary source documents (for now on e-reserve)
  • Online pschoactive advertisements


  • Links to a few contemporary news accounts relating
  • to psychoactives:
"Hondurans Crushed by Coffee Sacks," BBC, 18 Jan 2007

"Opium Threats in Afghanistan, Iran," Council on Foreign Relations, 14 September 2006

"Pot-smoking eases foot pain, HIV patients report," CNN, 12 Feb 2007

"Saving Ethiopia's Forests, and its cutters," Christian Science Monitor, 24 January 2007




HST 261, African History and Film

Lee V. Cassanelli, “Somali Land Resource Issues in Historical Perspective,” in Learning From Somalia: The Lessons of Armed Humanitarian Intervention, ed. by Walter Clarke and Jeffrey Herbst (Boulder: Westview Press, 1997), pp. 67-76.

Walter Clarke, “Failed Visions and Uncertain Mandates in Somalia,” in Learning From Somalia: The Lessons of Armed Humanitarian Intervention, ed. by Walter Clarke and Jeffrey Herbst (Boulder: Westview Press, 1997), pp. 3-19. 

Frantz Fanon, “Concerning Violence,” in The Wretched of the Earth, Translated from the French by Constance Farrington (New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1963), pp. 35-106.

Frantz Fanon, “Preface” and “Algeria Unveiled,” in A Dying Colonialism, Translated from the French by Haakon Chevalier (New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1967), pp. 23-67.

Frantz Fanon, “This is the Voice of Algeria,” in A Dying Colonialism, Translated from the French by Haakon Chevalier (New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1967), pp. 69-97.

Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg, “Who Was Afraid of Patrice?  Terror and the Ethical Imagination in Lumumba: La Mort du Prophet,” in Terrorism, Media, Liberation, ed. by J. David Slocum (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2005), pp. 248-66.

Kevin M. Kennedy, “The Relationship Between the Military and Humanitarian Organizations in Operation Restore Hope,” in Learning From Somalia: The Lessons of Armed Humanitarian Intervention, ed. by Walter Clarke and Jeffrey Herbst (Boulder: Westview Press, 1997), pp. 99-117. 

Henry Kyemba, “Roots of Evil” and “The Tyrant Emerges,” in A State of Blood: The Inside Story of Idi Amin (New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1977), pp. 15-59; 108-27.

Henry Kyemba, “Coming Chaos,” in A State of Blood: The Inside Story of Idi Amin (New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1977), pp. 60-127. 

Todd Shepard, “Muslim French Citizens from Algeria: A Short History,” in The Invention of Decolonization: The Algerian War and the Remaking of France (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006), pp. 19-54. 

Murray Smith, “The Battle of Algiers: Colonial Struggle and Collective Allegiance,” in Terrorism, Media, Liberation, ed. by J. David Slocum (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2005), pp. 94-110.

James L. Woods, “U.S. Government Decisionmaking Processes During Humanitarian Operations in Somalia,” in Learning From Somalia: The Lessons of Armed Humanitarian Intervention, ed. by Walter Clarke and Jeffrey Herbst (Boulder: Westview Press, 1997), pp. 151-172. 


HST 273, Modern Africa

  • Documents

  • Links to student websites on African countries