Schedule

Unit I – Course Introduction


Week 1 - August 21, 23
Why Study World History?

• Why Study History?
• Why Learn World History

The World in 1750


Unit II – The Age of Revolutions, 1750-1850


Week 2 - August 28, 30
The Industrial Revolution

• Worlds Together, Worlds Apart [WTWA], 554-593
• Coal, Steam and the Industrial Revolution (Crash Course in World History [CCWH]) 
• Why the Industrial Revolution Happened Here (BBC documentary) 
• Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, 1776 
• David Ricardo, The Iron Law of Wages, 1817

 
The Consequences of the Industrial Revolution

• The Life of the Industrial Worker in Nineteenth-Century England 
• Women Miners in the English Coal Pits 
• Harriet Robinson, Lowell Mill Girls, 1834-1848

 
Week 3 - September 4, 6
Revolutionary Atlantic

• WTWA, 594-627
• John Locke, Second Treatise on Government, 1689
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract, 1762 
• Declaration of Independence 
• Tea, Taxes and the American Revolution (Crash Course in World History [CCWH]) 
• Bill of Rights 
• Enlightenment and Human Rights in the French Revolution 
• Declaration of the Rights of Man 
• The French Revolution (CCWH)

Week 4 - September 11, 13
Karl Marx lectures

Class discussion of Marx and Engels’ The Communist Manifesto

• Capitalism and Socialism (CCWH)

 
Unit III – Rise of the Nation-State, 1800-1914


Week 5 - September 18, 20


Of Nations and Nationalism

• WTWA, 628-667
• Website: Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities 
  • Study Questions
• BBC Radio 4: The War That Changed the World – Sarajevo: Nationalism 
• BBC Radio 4: The Morality of Nationalism 
• Ernst Renan, “What is a nation?” 
• Ernst Moritz Arndt, “The German Fatherland” 
• Giuseppe Mazzini, “On Nationality, 1852” 
• Samurai, Daimyo, Matthew Perry, and Nationalism (CCWH)

 
Week 6 - September 25, 27


In-class nation-state building exercise


The New Imperialism

• WTWA, 668-705
• Imperialism (CCWH) 
• Commissioner Lin Tse-Hsu to Queen Victoria, 1839 
• The People of Canton: Against the English, 1842 
• Leslie Marchant, “The Wars of the Poppies”

 
Imperialism in Africa

• The Earl of Cromer: Why Britain Acquired Egypt in 1882, (1908) 
• Joseph Conrad: from Heart of Darkness (1902) 
• Jules Ferry (1832-1893): On French Colonial Expansion

 
Week 7 - October 2, 4


Global Mobilities in the 19th century


Midterm.


Unit IV – Global Wars, Global Depressions, 1890-1945


Week 8 - October 11
 
Film: Battle of Tsushima (film also located on Website course site [Topic 1 - Teaching Media]))


World War I 

• WTWA, 705-720
• Archdukes, Cynicism, and World War I (CCWH)
• Wilfred Owen, “Dulce et Decorum Est”
• Rupert Brooke, “War Sonnets”
• Scenes from All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) – Scene 1; Scene 2

Week 9 - October 16, 18
World War I and global responses

• WTWA, 720-747
• V. I. Lenin, “The Transition from Capitalism to Communism”
• The Zimmerman Telegram, January 16, 1917

 
Week 10 - October 32, 25
A Peace to End All Peace: Depression and the Rise of Fascism

• John Maynard Keynes: The Economic Consequences of the Peace, 1920
• Benito Mussolini: What is Fascism, 1932
• Website: Adolph Hitler, Mein Kampf (1925)

 
The Second Global War

• WTWA, 748-758
• Neville Chamberlain: “Peace in Our Time”, 1938 
• Winston Churchill: “Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat”, May 13, 1940 
• The Nanking Massacre, 1937 
• Eugene Sledge - Battle of Okinawa, 1945 (video & text) 
• World War II (CCWH)

Unit V – Winter Has Come: Cold War and Hot Zones, 1945-1991


Week 11 - October 30, November 1
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 
• USA vs. USSR Fight! The Cold War (CCWH)

 
The Cuban Missile Crisis

• Website: Fidel Castro, “What Cuba’s Rebels Want” (1954)
• The ColdWar: the Cuban Missile Crisis
• Che Guevara, Mobilizing the Masses for the Invasion
• Carl Rosenberg, “CIA’s Bay of Pigs foreign policy laid bare,” Miami Herald, Aug 27, 2011

 
Week 12 - November 6, 8
The End of the Cold War

• WTWA, 773-787
• Vladimir Batyuk, “The End of the Cold War: A Russian View” (1999)
• George H. W. Bush and the End of the Cold War (CCWH)
• The Cold War: The Wall Comes Down, 1989
• The Cold War: Conclusions, 1989-1991

The Cold War – Was it worth it?

• Mark Danner, “The Truth of El Mozote”
• Gabriel Garcia Márquez, The Solitude of Latin America
• The Cold War: Backyard, 1954-1990
• A Search for Justice (2015, Retro Report)

 
Week 13 - November 13, 15
Paper on John Le Carré’s The Spy Who Came In From the Cold is due by 11am on Tuesday, Nov. 13.


Class (Nov. 13) discussion of Le Carré’s The Spy Who Came In From the Cold


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) 
• 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)

 
Vietnam

• The Cold War: Vietnam, 1954-1968
• Seymour Hersh, “The My Lai Massacre,” November 1969
• Vietnam Veterans Against the War Statement, 1971

Unit VI – Globalization – Integration and Differentiation since 1970


Week 14 - November 20
The Phenomenon Called Globalization

• WTWA, 788-827
• Dalpino, "Does Globalization Promote Democracy?: An early assessment" (September 1, 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)
• Website: Crash Course in World History, “Globalization I – The Upside”

 
Globalization and its Offal

• Pope Francis, “Apostolic Exhortation, Chapter 2 – Amid the Crisis of Communal Commitment (Paragraphs 50-75)” 
• Ghemawat, “Why the World Isn’t Flat” (2009)
• Pankaj Ghemawat, “Actually, the world isn’t flat” 
• Fox, “The World is Still not Flat” (2014)
• Rifkin, “The Age of Access” 
• Therules.org, “Global Wealth Inequality” 
• Website: Crash Course in World History, “Globalization II – Good or Bad?” 
• Kentaro Toyama, “The Myth of Scale”
• Kalathil, "China Promotes an Authoritarian-flavored Globalization" (2016)

  
Week 15 - November 27, 29
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)
• Amanda Taub, The Rise of American Authoritarianism (2016)
• Cassandras of the Crash (September 2018)
• 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)
• Edsall, "The Contract with Authoritarianism" (2018)
• Nordic model tarnished as scandals hit region’s banks (2018)

Technology and Open Societies

• WTWA, 828-860
• Solove, “Why Privacy Matters Even if You Have ‘Nothing to Hide’” (2010)
• Teaching the NSA files and data security 
• Khatchadourian, “No Secrets: Julian Assange’s mission for total transparency” 
• Australian Broadcasting Company, "WikiLeaks - The Forgotten Man" (2012) [documentary film on Bradley Manning]
• The Right to Privacy (BBC Panorama, 1981)
• Edward Snowden: Spies and the Law (BBC documentary film)
• How Hackers Changed the World (BBC documentary film)
• Online Privacy: How did we get here? (PBS Digital Studios)
• Greenwald, “NSA collecting phone records on millions of Verizon customers daily” (2013)
• Greenwald and MacAskill, “NSA Prism program taps in to user data of Apple, Google and others” (2013)
• Marc Thiessen, “Yes, publishing NSA secrets is a crime” (2013)
• John Yoo, “NSA activities shouldn’t be aired in public” (2013)
• Gellman, “NSA broke privacy rules thousands of times per year, audit finds” (2013)
• Cooke, “NSA Critics, Right All Along” (2013) 
• Sanchez, “Where’s the Oversight on NSA Spying?” (2013) 
• Reitman, “Snowden and Greenwald: The Men Who Leaked the Secrets” (2013) 
• The Guardian, “The NSA Files” 
• Teaching the NSA files and data security – news and resources round up 
• American Civil Liberties Union, “Time to Rein in the Surveillance State” 
• Clark, “The New Political Prisoners: Leakers, Hackers and Activists” (2013) 
• Roberts, “Courts split over NSA phone records: New ruling says spy program legal” (2013) 
• Ackerman, “NSA review panel casts doubt on bulk data collection claims” (2014) 
• Free Snowden
• Orin Kerr, “Understanding the Supreme Court’s Carpenter Decision” (2018)

The World in 2016 – The global refugee crisis and whither globalization?