Schedule

It's Week 1

Aug. 19 - Course Introduction: Bearings, Settings, and Expectations

Aug. 21 - 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

Aug 23 - 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

Week 2

Aug. 26 - The Industrial Revolution

• Worlds Together, Worlds Apart [WTWA], 554-593
• Crash Course World History  [CCWH], Coal, Steam, and The Industrial Revolution

Aug. 28 - 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

Aug. 30 - 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

Week 3

Sept. 2 - Labor Day. No class.

Sept. 4 - Political Revolutions

• WTWA, 594-627
• John Locke, Second Treatise on Government, 1689
• Jean Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract, 1763

Sept. 6 - 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)

Week 4

Sept. 9 - 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

Sept. 11 - Industrializing society, rights, and discontent

• WTWA, 628-667

Sept. 13 - 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)

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

Week 5

Sept. 16 - No class. Dr. Hyland away.

Sept. 18 - 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

Sept. 20 - Writing a Constitution (Role playing exercise)

Week 6

Sept. 23 - Writing a Constitution (Role playing exercise)

Sept. 25 - 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

Sept. 27 - 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) 

Week 7

Sept. 30 - Era of Mass Migration

• Immigrant letters

Oct. 2 - Immigration role playing exercise

Oct. 4 - Class discussion on Seeing White from Scene of Radio

• https://www.sceneonradio.org/seeing-white/

Week 8

Oct. 7 - Fall Break. No class

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

Oct. 9 - World War I

• WTWA, 705-720
• Film: Battle of Tsushima
• Rupert Brooke, The Soldier
• Wilfred Owen, Dulce et Decorum Est
• John Reed, Operating Room
• Alexander Blok, The Twelve  (you'll need to scroll down)

Oct. 11 - 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

Week 9

Oct. 14 - 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
• 1929, The Great Crash (2009)
• The Uprising of ’34 (1995)

Oct. 16 - The Rise of Fascism and the Road to War

• Benito Mussolini: What is Fascism, 1922

Oct. 18 - 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

Week 10

Oct. 21 - 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

Oct. 23 - Professor Hyland away at conference. No class.

Oct. 25 - Professor Hyland away at conference. No class.

Week 11 

Oct. 28 - 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)

Oct. 30 - 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)

Nov. 1 - Vietnam

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

Week 12

Nov. 4 - 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/

Unit V – Globalization – Integration and Differentiation since 1970

Nov. 6 - 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)

Nov. 8 - 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)

Week 13

Nov. 11 - 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)

Nov. 13 - In-class Globalization exercise

Nov. 15 - Class discussion of Normal People

Week 14

Nov. 18 - 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)
• 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/
    

Nov. 20 - 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/
• "More Harm Than Good" (2019)
  • https://www.gzeromedia.com/more-harm-than-good

Nov. 22 - 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 15

Nov. 25 - 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)

Nov. 27 - Thanksgiving recess. No class.

Nov. 29 - Thanksgiving recess. No class.

Week 16

Dec. 2 - Technology and Open Societies, a continuación

• 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)

Finale
May 1, 9am - GPS 320, Section 4 (MWF, 10am)
May 2, 1:30pm - GPS 320, Section 5 (MWF, 11am)