Hist 105 - Course Calendar

COURSE CALENDAR

Week I: Introduction
1/9 Course Introduction. The world circa 1750.
Week II: The Era of Revolution
1/12 Age of Revolutions I. World, 725-54 (= 715-35 in 1st ed.).: **PS: Qianlong letter to George III, US Declaration of Independence.
1/14 Age of Revolutions II. World, 755-71 (747-63 in 1st ed.).: PS: French Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen; Declaration of Independence of the Blacks of St. Domingo.
Week III: The Nineteenth-Century World
1/19 Global Demographies: Birth, Death, and Migration. World, 775-84 (770-83 in 1st ed.).: **PS: Snow, On the Mode of Communication of Cholera (excerpts); Causes and Effects of Emigration from Germany.
1/21 The Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective. World, 784-808 (783-807 in 1st ed.).: PS: Ure, Philosophy of Manufacturers (excerpts); Eiichi, Going into Business (Blackboard=BB); Yataro, Letter to Mitsubishi Employees (BB).
Week IV: The Nineteenth-Century World, cont.
1/26 Modes of Work and Living. World, 811-19 (808-17 in 1st ed.): **PS: Women Workers in Industrial Europe; Veltin, Social Life of the Swahilis (both BB).
1/28 Cities and Villages. World, 819-25 (817-33 in 1st ed.).: PS: Engels, Conditions of the English Working Class (excerpts); Alvarez, Buenos Aires in the Early Twentieth Century (excerpts, BB).
Week V: The Nineteenth-Century World, cont.
2/2 Social Consciousness and Tension. World, 826-42.: **PS: Marx and Engels, Communist Manifesto (excerpts); Pobedonostsev, Reflections of a Russian Statesman (excerpts).
2/4 Western Imperialism. World, 845-77 (842-75 in 1st ed.).: PS: Documents on the Opium War; Hobson, Imperialism; Dadbhai Naoroji, The Condition of India (BB).
Week VI: The Nineteenth-Century World, cont.
2/9 Challenging the West: Resistance, Accommodation, Criticism.: PS: Excerpts from John Bowring's "Personal Journal" on Siam; the Lesotho nation in Africa (BB); Multatuli, Max Havelaar: or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company (BB).
2/11 Science and Culture in the Modernizing World.: **PS: Shozan, Reflections On My Errors (BB); al-Afghani, Response to Renan.
Week VII: The Nineteenth-Century World, cont.
2/16 The Birth of the Nation. World, 878-98 (876-93 in 1st ed.).: PS: Decrees of the Tanzimat Reform Era in the Ottoman Empire; The Meiji Constitution of 1889.
2/18 Religion and Politics. World, 898-902 (893-901 in 1st ed.).: **PS: German Kulturkampf documents; Jamal al-Din al-Afghani, The Materialists in India; Leo XIII, On Slavery in the Missions.
Week VIII: The Nineteenth-Century World, cont.
2/23 Problems of Nationalism and the Nation-State. World, 902-13 (901-13 in 1st ed.).: PS: Echenique, The Emancipation of Women; Toshimichi, Reasons for Opposing the Korean Expedition (BB).
2/25 Mid-Term Examination.
Week IX: The Global Twentieth Century
3/2 Science and the Modern Condition. World, 917-31 (916-39 in 1st ed.).: PS: Marinetti, Futurist manifesto; Weber, "Science as a Vocation."; Distribute instructions for the World Perspectives paper.
3/4 Western Culture, World Cultures. World, 931-49 (939-51 in 1st ed.).: **PS: Boas, The Mind of Primitive Man (excerpts, BB); Satre, Existentialism.
Week X: Spring Break
3/9 & 3/11 No Classes.
Week XI: The Global Twentieth Century
3/16 The Age of Technology.: **PS. Afro-Digital. In-class presentation.
3/18 The Second "Thirty Years War." World, 951-69 (952-69 in 1st ed.).: PS: Freud, "Thoughts for the Times on War and Death" (excerpts, BB); Draft, Basic Plan for a Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere (BB); Churchill, Speech before the House of Commons, 18 June 1940.
Week XII: The Global Twentieth-Century, cont.
3/23 The Cold War World. World, 969-78 (970-84 in 1st ed.).: PS: Churchill, Iron Curtain Speech; Khruschchev, Report to the Communist Party Congress (1961) (BB); Weisbord, "Perspectives of the Cuban Revolution."

3/25 Decolonization and Neo-Colonialism. World, 978-82.: **PS: Ho Chi Minh, Selected Writings; Kwame Nkruhmah, Neo-Colonialism (both BB).
Week XIII: The Global Twentieth Century, cont.
3/30 A New World Order? World, 982-89 (984-91 in 1st ed.).: PS: Deng Xiaoping, Selected Speeches and Writings, Khomeni, Islamic Government (both BB).

4/1 Genocide and the Holocaust. World, 991-96 (992-95 in 1st ed.).: **PS: Roupen of Sassoun, Eyewitness to Armenia's Genocide (BB); Rudolf Hoess, Nuremberg Trials AffidavitDestexhe, Rwanda and Genocide (BB).
Week XIV: The Global Twentieth Century, cont.
4/6 Rethinking State and Society. World, 996-1011 (995-1011 in 1st ed.).: PS: Alva Myrdal, Nation and Family in Sweden (BB); Chitoshi Yanaga, Big Business in Japanese Politics (BB); Thatcher, Speech to the Young Conservatives (1981).; World Perspectives Paper due.
4/8 Citizenship in the Global Village.: **PS: De Beauvoir, The Second Sex (excerpts); Da Silva, Reform Issues in Brazil (both, BB).
Week XV: The Global Twentieth Century, cont.
4/13 Globalization. World, 1011-23 (same in 1st ed.).: PS: Burtless et al., Globaphobia (excerpts); Maquiladora workers (both BB).
4/15 Challenges of the Twenty-First Century World. World, 1025-55 (1024-56 in 1st ed.).: **PS: One-Child Policy in China; "Home Sweet Home -- For Some" (both BB).