This section of the web site offers readings, images, and maps that can help students to further understand course assignments, but which are not required reading. In other words, the readings on this page are for your Information (FYI). Links from the five sections of the course come here, and are marked thus: Optional (FYI) Reading.
From Monday, February 12:
Mithrab
From Wednesday, February 28:
From Wednesday, March 7:
Images Illustrating Expeditions
From Wednesday, March 21:
Images illustrating colonial history
From Monday, April 2
Illustrations of the Slave Trade
From Monday, April 9
The Development of Factories
Early forms of manufacturing
From Wednesday, April 11
West African Art
From Monday, April 23
Image Gallery -- 20th Century
From Monday, April 16
Heads of State
From Wednesday, April 18
World War I
From Wednesday, April 25
The Indian National Movement
From Friday, April 27
Photographs of Gandhi
From Monday, April 30
Images of India and Selections on Modern India