THE GREAT WAR AND EMPIRE

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This course explores relationships between The Great War (World War I) and colonialism around the world. By 1900, business of colonization encircled the globe. No continent was untouched by the colonial reach of Western powers. While colonial subjects were expected to support their colonizers in the grand struggle that was "a war to end all war," such participation on battlefields and oceans cultivated a growing sense of independence & self-determination. It is such colonial involvement and action that truly made the Great War into a World War that sent lasting repercussions from Europe to Africa, Asia and the Americas.(HA, HA-G)