History and International Studies Study Materials

GROWTH OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE

The Value and Volume of Overseas Trade Direction of Trade The Nature of the main Exports and Imports The Geographical Location of the Export Sector The Terms of Trade

HIS 301: Nigeria in the 20th Century

FIRST PHASE OF BRITISH CONQUEST : 1850-1900 The Motives Behind the British conquest of Nigeria

Overview – World War I in the Middle East

Middle Eastern issues and the origins of the war (why a group of Bosnian teenagers was gunning for an Austrian archduke and what that had to do with the Middle East – and a world war) The Middle East during the war (from military campaigns to hunting locusts, from an Arab revolt to the Armenian genocide) The Middle East and the peace settlements after the war (division, foreign occupation, renewed war, population exchanges)

HIS 222: Industrial Revolution

Industrial Revolution Negative Outlook French Revolution Paris Commune American Revolution

CHM 335 -UNITS OF MEASUREMENT

The official set of units that physicist and chemists use is the international systems of units or the SI. In this systems there are seven basic units. Meter for height, Kilogram for mass, Seconds for time, Kelvin for temperature, Amper for current, mole for amount of substance, candela for luminous intensity.

HIS 210 -INTERNATIONAL LAW AND DIPLOMACY

International law has been defined as the rules and principles that governs states in their relationship with one another. The soviet academy and sciences defined International law as the aggregate of rules governing relationship between states in their process of conflicts and cooperations. 

HIS 101- Environment and the People's of Nigeria

The disastrous drought which affected the sahallen zone of Africa south of the Sahara in 1973 is now a historic fact. It occasioned large scale migration of people and livestock southwest resulting in the dislocation of the Economy of the affected areas. In Nigeria the situation has largely been contained thanks to the generous aid provided by the federal government and private donors.

HIS 1030- ARCHAEOLOGY

There is a distinct gap between the ordinary people’s conception on the meaning of Archaeology and that of Archaeologist. This is so principally because the majority of educated people in many parts of the world including Africa view Archaeology as an odd way of learning something about areas of the past which historians cannot deal with adequately, whereas archaeology has in fact has evolved into an as today a highly specilaized. 

HIS 108- Development and Practice of Diplomacy

There has not been any generally accepted definition of diplomacy. However, some existing definitions are regarded as suitable for the discussion, explanation and analyses of issues related to diplomacy as a functional political concept. The Oxford dictionary defined diplomacy as the management of international relations by negotiations or the methods by which those relations are adjusted and managed.

HIS 109- Nigeria Principles and Policies in Relating with Others

This chapter defines the major concepts involved in the discussion and analysis of the Nigerian Foreign Policy. It discusses the fundamental issues and objectives of the country’s foreign policy. It also examines the general means or methods employed in making foreign policy decisions and above all critically examines the factors that determine or influence Nigeria’s Foreign Policies. 

HIS 200- World War II

Allied air forces were unable to prevent the a Luffwaffe from the field of battle and even at the battle of France the British refused to transfer their metropolitan ariforces from Britaon bases. It was a hard decision.

HIS 203- The Partitioning of Africa

During the first phase of the original colonial system the African continent was partitioned into more than 50 countries. This creation of nation states had very important long term consequences. The process of carving up the continents and creating nation states determined for example which entirely unrelated societies would from then on live together and share a nationality.

HIS 204- History of Kogi

The Niger benue  confluence area encompasses the region around the meeting point of River Niger and River Benue. Within this region some important states flourished before the colonial period. This include Nupe to the extreme North, Panda to the North east on the Benue and Igala kingdom to the East. Lokoja settlement developed on the merging points of the two rivers.

HIS 207- Introduction to the Study of Foreign Policy

Prof MO et al defined foreign policy as the sum total of those principles that determines a states interaction in the international system bearing in mind the nations goals and means of achieving the goals.  

HIS 208- Development and Practice of Diplomacy

There has not been any universally accepted definition of diplomacy. This is because of the nature of the sciences in which their subject matter is not self-defining in a way that is often the case of the natural sciences.


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