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

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)

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

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