This subject allows students to analyse Australia's situation in relation to the world and our region by investigating the history of colonialism, including its engagement with modernity and the history of anti-colonial movements. Students deepen their knowledge of the political, economic, social and cultural processes of colonial expansion and imperialism as they affected the colonised peoples, the colonising rulers and settlers, and the metropolitan powers. The subject investigates the development of modernity in Europe and its colonies. It explores the roots of many intellectual disciplines and tools, investigating, for example, the relationship between anthropology and colonialism, as well as the role of technologies such as photography in colonial processes. Using international and Australian comparisons, the subject introduces students to many perspectives: those of colonised peoples; those of members of diasporas (the populations dispersed by invasions, slavery, indentured labour and voluntary migration); those of the invading settlers who established overseas colonies; and those of people remaining in or migrating into the colonisers' home country.

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