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Schedule

Class Schedule

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)
    • ​https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/05/21/why-study-history-because-it-can-save-us-democratic-collapse/
  • ​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)
    • https://jacobinmag.com/2019/08/poor-whites-have-been-written-out-of-history-for-a-very-political-reason
Week 2

Jan. 13 - Why humanities in an age of embracing dumb?
  • ​Steven Nadler, "How to Fix American Stupidity" (2017)
    • https://time.com/4937675/how-to-fix-american-stupidity/
  • Joel Achenbach, "50 years after Apollo, conspiracy theorists are still howling at the 'moon hoax'" (2019)
    • https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/50-years-after-apollo-conspiracy-theorists-are-still-howling-at-the-moon-hoax/2019/05/23/ca5b4a3a-700e-11e9-9f06-5fc2ee80027a_story.html
  • Aaron Hanlon, "Lies about the Humanities - and the lying liars who tell them" (2018)
    • ​​https://www.chronicle.com/article/Lies-About-the-Humanities-/245261
  • 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
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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
  • combined_immigrant.pdf 
  • indian_problem.pdf
  • Film: Battle of Tsushima

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)
    • https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1982/marquez/lecture/
  • Operation Gatekeeper at 25: Look back at the turning point that transformed the border (2019)
    • https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/border-baja-california/story/2019-09-28/gatekeeper-anniversary-25-san-diego-border​

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)
  • https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/after-the-financial-crisis-wall-street-turned-to-charityand-avoided-justice
  • "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)
    • ​​https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/06/opinion/income-tax-rate-wealthy.html
  • Charlotte's Broadband Deserts (2017)
    • ​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-ZxKlj4j7I&feature=youtu.be
  • "Charlotte’s broadband deserts reflect a familiar pattern" (2017)
    • http://digitalcharlotte.org/charlottes-broadband-deserts-reflect-a-familiar-pattern/

Apr. 22 - Globalization and the Social Contract, continued
  • Amanda Taub, "The Rise of American Authoritarianism" (2016)
  • Christopher Browning, "The Suffocation of Democracy" (2018)
    • https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2018/10/25/suffocation-of-democracy/
  • Muro and Witon, "America has two economies—and they’re diverging fast" (2019)
    • https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2019/09/10/america-has-two-economies-and-theyre-diverging-fast/
  • "To rescue democracy, we must revive the reforms of the Progressive Era (2019)
    • www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/30/democracy-capitalism-progressive-era-gilded-age​

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)
    • https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/21/contemporary-capitalism-liberal-democracy-policies
 
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)
    • ​https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/10/opinion/nsa-privacy.html

Finale - TBA
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