Scandal in the Colonies
HIST 122
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Description
What makes a scandal? Scandals bring hidden behaviors and unspoken assumptions into the historical record. They spark state repression, political activism and moral panics. Scandals are both a route to understanding social change and a fundamental driver of governance. In this seminar, students study a series of scandals that erupted in Australia and the British imperial world across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Topics include imposture and fraud, frontier violence, urban youth, trial by media, war crimes, status anxiety and spies. We examine how these individual incidents emerged from and influenced their wider historical contexts and explore how scandals illuminate the past.
Course Notes
This course meets the "Beyond North America" History Concentration requirement.
Class Notes
This course will be taught by Visiting Prof. Kirsten McKenzie.
Available for Harvard Cross Registration
