Course Description

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The overall course covers the history of the world from roughly 1500 to the present. The first quarter opens with the time when Asia was the center of world affairs, then traces European encounters with Asia and the Americas, and the complex interactions and consequences of the so-called "Columbian Exchange" between Europe, Asia, the Americas and Africa. The first quarter ends with a survey of the European Renaissance and Reformation, in both its local and global dimensions. The second quarter will focus on the rise of absolute monarchies and new ideas and practices, especially with the scientific revolution and Enlightenment. The second quarter ends with assessments of the legacies of the French Revolution, Napoleon and the emergence of the British Empire. The third quarter starts with the implications of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars in the wake of the Congress of Vienna, i.e., the discourse on rights, reaction, revolution and reform, the rise of new ideologies, in particular, Classical Liberalism, nationalism, and romanticism, and conservative reactions to the changes wrought by the American and French Revolutions. The course then examines the rise of industrialization and social change in 19th-century Europe, and the emergence of middle and working class cultures, followed by new iterations of liberalism and conservatism, the proliferation of more ideologies, e.g., socialism, communism, ultranationalism, social Darwinism, and antisemitism. Then the course examines the unification of the Italian and German nation states, and the creation of the modern welfare state. From there the course traces the rise of a new wave of Western imperialism, followed by the rest of the world's reactions to the rise of European empires and ideas, and in particular, the emergence of industrial Japan and their surprising victory over Russia. The third quarter ends with the outbreak of the First World War. The fourth and final quarter surveys the effects of the First World War, followed by the brief peak of classical liberal nation states and promises for peace, and the rapid rise of authoritarianism, in both communist and fascist variations, with a special focus on the rise of Nazism, the Nazi racial transformation of Germany and the Holocaust and Shoah of modern Europe. The fourth quarter concludes by looking at the causes and effects of the Second World War, the Cold War, the end of European empires in Asia and Africa, the emergence of the Modern Middle East and China, the end of the Cold War, history since 1989, all the way to the present, including current events.

Friday, February 27, 2015

Week 9 - Darkening Decades: World War and Revolution.

Monday through Friday, March 2-6, 2015. 
Quiz#4 on 19th-Century European Culture, Mass Politics, and Imperialism closes on Tuesday evening, 3/3.
Self-reflections are optional this quarter, but still recommended; DUE by Thursday, 3/5. 
Independent Research Paper Drafts DUE on Friday, 3/6 (see guidelines below on blog). 
End of third quarter, Friday, 3/6.
Spring Break, 3/7-3/23 - HAVE A GOOD BREAK!!!
 
Day 1, Monday, 3/6: The Causes of the Great War.
In-class: Discuss the causes and experiences of the First World War, and chronicle current events.
Review: “Descending into the Twentieth Century: World War and Revolution, 1914-1920,” in The West in the World, eds. Sherman/Salisbury, pp. 655-665 (up until "The War Spreads Across the Globe"), and prepare answers to the key questions.
Key Terms and Persons: The Schlieffen Plan, The Alliance System, The Triple Entente, The Triple Alliance, Crisis in the Balkans, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, Germany’s Blank Check, Trench warfare, and total war.
Key question#1: What were the causes of the war, and who, if anyone, was to blame? 
Key question#2: How did people experience the war on the home fronts and battle fronts?  
 
Homework for Day 3: Please read “Descending into the Twentieth Century: World War and Revolution, 1914-1920,” in The West in the World, eds. Sherman/Salisbury, pp. 665-673, and prepare answers to the key questions. 
Key Terms and Persons: Propaganda, Kaethe Kollwitz, the Versailles Treaty, Georges Clemenceau, David Lloyd George, Woodrow Wilson, Wilson's Fourteen Points, The League of Nations, Mustafa Kemal, and John Maynard Keynes.  
Key question#1: How did people experience the war on the home fronts and battle fronts as the war dragged on?  
Key question#2: What are the legacies of the First World War?    
 
Day 2: Independent Research.
In-class: Meet in the library to read, write, and discuss projects with instructor. 
 
Day 3: The Peace Settlement and the Legacies of the Great War. 
In-class: Read the primary and secondary source handouts on the Treaty of Versailles, and discuss the legacies of the First World War. 
 
Homework for Day 4: Please read “Revolutions in Russia,” in The West in the World, eds. Sherman/Salisbury, pp. 674-683, and prepare answers to the key questions.  
Key Terms and Persons: Tsar Nicholas II, 1905 Revolution: Bloody Sunday, the Battleship Potemkin, and Duma; the March Revolution, the Provisional Government, Alexander Kerensky, the soviets, Lenin, the Bolsheviks, Lenin's principles, Leon Trotsky, the November Revolution, the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, and the Russian Civil War.  
Key question#1: How did the Bolsheviks come to power?  
 
Day 4: The Russian Revolution.
In-class: Read the primary and secondary source handouts on the Russian Revolution, and discuss the Russian Revolutions.
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