Schedule
Class Schedule
Jan. 8 - Course Introduction: Bearings, Settings, and Expectations
Jan. 10 - Why study history?
Jan. 13 - Why humanities in an age of embracing dumb?
Unit I - The Age of Revolutions, 1750-1850
Jan. 15 - The Industrial Revolution
Jan. 17 - The Industrial Revolution
Week 3
Jan. 20 - Martin Luther King Jr. Day - No class
Jan. 22 - Industrial Revolutions
Jan. 24 - Political Revolutions
Week 4
Jan. 27 - Political Revolutions
Jan. 29 - Comparing and contrasting Constitutions
Jan. 31 - Exam 1
Unit II – Rise of the Nation-State, 1800-1914
Week 5
Feb. 3 - Industrializing society, rights, and discontent
Feb. 5 - Nations and Nationalism
Feb. 7 - Writing a Constitution (Role playing exercise)
Week 6
Feb. 10 - Writing a Constitution (Role playing exercise)
Feb. 12 - Writing a Constitution (Role playing exercise)
Feb. 14 - The New Imperialism
Week 7
Feb. 17 - The Scramble for Africa
Feb. 19 - Global Migration and Mobility
Unit III – Global Wars, Global Depressions, 1890-1945
Feb. 21 - World War I
Week 8
Feb. 24 - World War I and global responses to it
Feb. 26 - World War I Cultural Production
Feb. 28 - Exam 2
Week 9
Mar. 9 - A Peace to End All Peace and Global Depression
Mar. 11 - The Second Global War
Unit IV – Winter Has Come: Cold War and Hot Zones, 1945-1991
Mar. 13 - The Cold War (1947-1991)
Week 10
Mar. 16 - Class discussion on Seeing White from Scene of Radio
Mar. 18 - Decolonization
Mar. 20 - Decolonization, a continuación
Week 11
Mar. 23 - Vietnam
Mar. 25 - Class discussion of The Truth of El Mozote
Mar. 27 - Exam 3
Unit V – Globalization – Integration and Differentiation since 1970
Week 12
Mar. 30 - Globalization
Apr. 1 - Globalization and its Discontents
Apr. 6 - Globalization and its Offal
Week 13
Apr. 6 - Globalization and its Offal
Apr. 8 - Class discussion of Normal People
Apr. 10 - Easter Break. No class
Week 14
Apr. 13 - Easter Break. No class
Apr. 15 - Dr. Hyland away. No class
Apr. 17 - Dr. Hyland away. No class
Week 15
Apr. 20 - Globalization and the Social Contract
Apr. 22 - Globalization and the Social Contract, continued
Apr. 24 - Globalization and the Social Contract, continued
Week 16
Apr. 27 - Technology and Open Societies
Finale - TBA
Jan. 8 - Course Introduction: Bearings, Settings, and Expectations
Jan. 10 - Why study history?
- Stearns, Why Study History? (1998)
- WHA, What is world history?
- John Jeffries Martin, "Why study history? Because it can save us from democratic collapse" (2019)
- Patricia Mazzei, "'It's Just Too Much': A Florida Town Grapples With a Shutdown After a Hurricane" (2019)
- “Poor Whites Have Been Written out of History for a Very Political Reason,” an interview with Kerri Leigh Merrit (2019)
Jan. 13 - Why humanities in an age of embracing dumb?
- Steven Nadler, "How to Fix American Stupidity" (2017)
- Joel Achenbach, "50 years after Apollo, conspiracy theorists are still howling at the 'moon hoax'" (2019)
- Aaron Hanlon, "Lies about the Humanities - and the lying liars who tell them" (2018)
- Derek Newton, "It's Not Liberal Arts And Literature Majors Who Are Most Underemployed" (2018)
- https://www.forbes.com/sites/dereknewton/2018/05/31/its-not-liberal-arts-and-literature-majors-who-are-most-underemployed/#78feb85111de
Unit I - The Age of Revolutions, 1750-1850
Jan. 15 - The Industrial Revolution
- Worlds Together, Worlds Apart [WTWA], 554-593
- Crash Course World History [CCWH], Coal, Steam, and The Industrial Revolution
Jan. 17 - The Industrial Revolution
- BBC, Why the Industrial Revolution Happened Here
- Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, 1776
- BBC 4, In Our Time, The Wealth of Nations (2015) (https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b052ln55)
- BBC 4, In Our Time, The Industrial Revolution (2010)
- David Ricardo, The Iron Law of Wages, 1817
Week 3
Jan. 20 - Martin Luther King Jr. Day - No class
Jan. 22 - Industrial Revolutions
- BBC 4, In Our Time, Consequences of the Industrial Revolution (2010)
- The Life of the Industrial Worker in Nineteenth-Century England
- Women Miners in the Coal Pits
- William Wordsworth, “The Excursion,” 1814
- Emile Zola, Germinal, 1885
Jan. 24 - Political Revolutions
- WTWA, 594-627
- John Locke, Second Treatise on Government, 1689
- Jean Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract, 1763
Week 4
Jan. 27 - Political Revolutions
- Constitutions Made Simple (watch the three associated videos on the website)
- BBC 4, In Our Time, The Haitian Revolution (2014)
- Declaration of Independence (1776)
- Bill of Rights (1789)
- Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen (1789)
Jan. 29 - Comparing and contrasting Constitutions
- Constitution of the United States of America
- Proposed Constitution of the Republic of Cuba (in Spanish; will be voted on by popular referendum on February 24, 2019)
- Constitution of the Argentine Republic
- Constitution of the People’s Republic of China
- http://en.pkulaw.cn/display.aspx?cgid=311950&lib=law (updated working link)
- Constitution of Sweden
Jan. 31 - Exam 1
Unit II – Rise of the Nation-State, 1800-1914
Week 5
Feb. 3 - Industrializing society, rights, and discontent
- Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto (1848)
- BBC documentary, Masters of Money, Karl Marx
- BBC 4, In Our Time, Marx (2005)
Feb. 5 - Nations and Nationalism
- Robert Zaretsky, "The philosopher who coined the term 'nationalism' also preached inclusivity" (2019)
- Ernest Renan, “What is a nation?”
- Ernst Moritz Arndt, “The German Fatherland”
- Anthony Pagden, "Why the 'new nationalism' can only flourish in conflict" (2018)
- Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities
Feb. 7 - Writing a Constitution (Role playing exercise)
Week 6
Feb. 10 - Writing a Constitution (Role playing exercise)
Feb. 12 - Writing a Constitution (Role playing exercise)
Feb. 14 - The New Imperialism
- WTWA, 668-705
- BBC 4, In Our Time, The Opium Wars
- Commissioner Lin Tse-Hsu to Queen Victoria, 1839
- The People of Canton: Against the English, 1842
Week 7
Feb. 17 - The Scramble for Africa
- BBC 4, In Our Time, The Berlin Conference (2013)
- The Earl of Cromer: Why Britain Acquired Egypt in 1882, (1908)
- Joseph Conrad: from Heart of Darkness (1902)
Feb. 19 - Global Migration and Mobility
Unit III – Global Wars, Global Depressions, 1890-1945
Feb. 21 - World War I
- WTWA, 705-720
- Scenes from All Quiet on the Western Front
Week 8
Feb. 24 - World War I and global responses to it
- Hyland, “The Syrian Ottoman Home Front in Buenos Aires and Rosario during the First World War” (2018)
- V. I. Lenin, “The Transition from Capitalism to Communism”
- The Zimmerman Telegram, January 16, 1917
Feb. 26 - World War I Cultural Production
- Rupert Brooke, The Soldier
- Wilfred Owen, Dulce et Decorum Est
- John Reed, Operating Room
- Alexander Blok, The Twelve (you'll need to scroll down)
Feb. 28 - Exam 2
Week 9
Mar. 9 - A Peace to End All Peace and Global Depression
- BBC 4, In Our Time, Rosa Luxemburg (2017)
- John Maynard Keynes: The Economic Consequences of the Peace, 1920
- Benito Mussolini: What is Fascism, 1922 (http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/mussolini-fascism.asp)
- 1929, The Great Crash (2009)
- The Uprising of ’34 (1995)
Mar. 11 - The Second Global War
- WTWA, 748-758
- Neville Chamberlain: “Peace in Our Time”, 1938
- The Nanking Massacre, 1937
- Winston Churchill: “Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat”, May 13, 1940
- Eugene Sledge - Battle of Okinawa, 1945 (video & text)
- World War II (CCWH)
Unit IV – Winter Has Come: Cold War and Hot Zones, 1945-1991
Mar. 13 - The Cold War (1947-1991)
- WTWA, 758-761
- George F. Kennan, The Long Telegram
- Winston S. Churchill: “Iron Curtain Speech”, March 5, 1946
- Joseph Stalin: Reply to Churchill, 1946
- The North Atlantic Treaty, 1949
Week 10
Mar. 16 - Class discussion on Seeing White from Scene of Radio
- https://www.sceneonradio.org/seeing-white/
- Assignment due before class begins
Mar. 18 - Decolonization
- WTWA, 761-773
- Decolonization and Nationalism Triumphant (CCWH)
- Mohandas K. Gandhi’s Speech (excerpts) to the All-India Congress, August 7, 1942
- Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964): Speech On the Granting of Indian Independence, August 14, 1947
- Jawaharlal Nehru: Marxism, Capitalism (1941) and Non-Alignment (1956)
Mar. 20 - Decolonization, a continuación
- Mandela planned sabotage in struggle for emancipation, The Guardian, April 20, 1964
- Nelson Mandela, “An ideal for which I am prepared to die,” April 20, 1964
- J.E. Spence, “Southern Africa in the Cold War” (1999)
Week 11
Mar. 23 - Vietnam
- The Cold War: Vietnam, 1954-1968
- Seymour Hersh, “The My Lai Massacre,” November 1969
- Vietnam Veterans Against the War Statement, 1971
Mar. 25 - Class discussion of The Truth of El Mozote
- http://www.markdanner.com/articles/the-truth-of-el-mozote
- Gabriel Garcia Márquez, "The solitude of Latin America" (1982)
- Operation Gatekeeper at 25: Look back at the turning point that transformed the border (2019)
Mar. 27 - Exam 3
Unit V – Globalization – Integration and Differentiation since 1970
Week 12
Mar. 30 - Globalization
- WTWA, 788-827
- Dalpino, "Does Globalization Promote Democracy?: An early assessment" (September 1, 2001)
- Rifkin, “The Age of Access” (2001)
- Friedman, “It’s a Flat World, After All” (2005)
- Meredith and Hoppough, “Why Globalization is Good” (2007)
- Pew Research Center, “Most of the world supports globalization in theory, but question it in practice” (2014)
Apr. 1 - Globalization and its Discontents
- Florida, The World is Spiky (2005)
- Ghemawat, “Why the World Isn’t Flat” (2009)
- Pankaj Ghemawat, “Actually, the world isn’t flat”
- Fox, “The World is Still not Flat” (2014)
- MissingProfits.world (2019) (https://missingprofits.world/)
Apr. 6 - Globalization and its Offal
- Pope Francis, “Apostolic Exhortation, Chapter 2 – Amid the Crisis of Communal Commitment (Paragraphs 50-75)” (2013)
- Therules.org, “Global Wealth Inequality”
- "The crisis of globalisation: interview with Mark Blyth" (2019)
Week 13
Apr. 6 - Globalization and its Offal
- Anand Giridharadas, "After the Financial Crisis, Wall Street Turned to Charity—and Avoided Justice" (2018)
- "More Harm Than Good" (2019)
- https://www.gzeromedia.com/more-harm-than-good
Apr. 8 - Class discussion of Normal People
Apr. 10 - Easter Break. No class
Week 14
Apr. 13 - Easter Break. No class
Apr. 15 - Dr. Hyland away. No class
Apr. 17 - Dr. Hyland away. No class
Week 15
Apr. 20 - Globalization and the Social Contract
- Jeff Faux, "Towards a Global Social Contract" (March 4, 2002)
- Nancy Birdsall, "The Development Agenda as a Global Social Contract; or, We Are All in This Development Boat Together" (Jan. 2008)
- Christopher Ingraham, "Massive new study traces how corporations use charitable donations to tilt regulations in their favor" (2019)
- Cassandras of the Crash (September 2018)
- Jan-Werner Müller, "Populism and the People" (2019)
- David Leonhardt, "Yes, the Rich really pay less taxes than you" (2019)
- Charlotte's Broadband Deserts (2017)
- "Charlotte’s broadband deserts reflect a familiar pattern" (2017)
Apr. 22 - Globalization and the Social Contract, continued
- Amanda Taub, "The Rise of American Authoritarianism" (2016)
- Christopher Browning, "The Suffocation of Democracy" (2018)
- Muro and Witon, "America has two economies—and they’re diverging fast" (2019)
- "To rescue democracy, we must revive the reforms of the Progressive Era (2019)
Apr. 24 - Globalization and the Social Contract, continued
- Sweeney, The Collapse of European Social Democracy, part 1 (August 10, 2018
- Sweeney, The Collapse of European Social Democracy, part 2 (September 10, 2018
- Bussolo, et. al., Towards a New Social Contract: Taking on Distributional Tensions in Europe and Central Asia (2018
- Social Policies Must Be Upgraded to Address Rising Inequality in Turkey, Says World Bank (September 25, 2018
- Nordic model tarnished as scandals hit region’s banks (2018)
- What Europeans Talk about when They Talk about Brexit (2019)
- "Yes, contemporary capitalism can be compatible with liberal democracy" (2019)
Week 16
Apr. 27 - Technology and Open Societies
- WTWA, 828-860
- Daniel Solove, "Why privacy matters even if you have 'nothing to hide'" (2011) (backup link 1; backup link 2)
- Shoshana Zubov, “The Secrets of Surveillance Capitalism” (2016) "
- Nathalie Maréchal, "Targeted Advertising Is Ruining the Internet and Breaking the World" (2018)
- Geoffrey A. Fowler, "It's the middle of the night. Do you know who your iPhone is talking to?" (2019)
- Geoffrey A. Fowler, "Goodbye, Chrome: Google’s web browser has become spy software" (2019)
- Jane Mayer, "The Predator War" (2009)
- Jane Mayer, "Torture and Obama's Drone Program" (2013) [optional]
- Kaag, Pratt, and Bhatia, "Democracy and the Necessity of Drones?" (2014)
- Spencer Ackerman. “Trump Ramped Up Drone Strikes in America’s Shadow Wars” (2018)
- "I Work for N.S.A. We Cannot Afford to Lose the Digital Revolution." (2019)
Finale - TBA