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 26, 2016

Week 9 - Darkening Decades: World War and Revolution.

Monday through Thursday, February 29-March 3, 2016
Independent research presentations continue. 
Long periods: In-library independent research paper revisions, capstone proposals, and/or in-class student research presentations. 
Current events chronicles will be checked during long periods.
Second deadline for capstone proposals DUE on Friday, 3/11. 
Quiz #3 on Week 6, 7, and 8 materials, i.e., mass politics, the new wave of imperialism and modern intellectual history (opens on Wednesday afternoon, 2/24 at 3:30, and closes Tuesday evening, 3/1). 
Final drafts of the independent student research papers DUE by Thursday, March 3 at 5PM.
Self-reflections (optional but strongly encouraged) DUE by Friday, March 4. 

Day 1: The Experience of the Great War.
In-class:  Current event chronicles.
In-class: Begin mapping out capstone projects for closer coordination.
In-class: Research Presentations continue.
In-class: Read primary sources on the experiences of the war.
Homework for Day 2/3: 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 2/3(Long periods): Independent Research.
In-class: Meet in the library to read, write, and discuss projects with instructor. 
Day 2/3(Short periods): 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 Monday, March 7: 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?  
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Friday, February 19, 2016

Week 8 – Descending into the Twentieth Century: World War and Revolution: 1914-1920

Monday through Friday, February 22-26, 2016
Independent research presentations continue. 
Long periods: In-library independent research paper revisions, capstone proposals, and/or in-class student research presentations. 
First deadline for capstone proposals DUE on Friday, 2/26. 
Quiz #3 on Week 6, 7, and 8 materials, i.e., mass politics, the new wave of imperialism and modern intellectual history (opens on Wednesday afternoon, 2/24 at 3:30, and closes Tuesday evening, 3/1). 
Final drafts of the independent student research papers DUE by Thursday, March 3 at 5PM.Self-reflections (optional but strongly encouraged) DUE by Friday, March 4. 

Day 1: Monday, 2/24: Modern European Intellectual History, Part 1.  
In-class: Read and discuss primary source handouts on Darwinism and Social Darwinism.
Homework for Day 2/3: Read "Science in an Age of Optimism,” in The West in the World, eds.Sherman/Salisbury, pp. 639-651, and answer the key question. 
Key Persons and Terms: Charles Darwin, Darwinism, Herbert Spencer, Social Darwinism, Louis Pasteur, positivism, realism, impressionism, Einstein, relativity, Freud, psychoanalysis, Durkheim, Nietzsche, and expressionism.
Key Question: Why do you think so much of the culture – especially the ideas, art and literature – of this period 1850-1914 remains influential and popular in today’s world?

Day 2/3 (Long periods): Independent Research.
Meet in library to work or meet in classroom for research presentations (double check with instructor).

Day 2/3 9short periods): Modern European Intellectual History, Part 2.
In-Class: Discuss the readings and homework question on European intellectual history. 
Homework for Day 4: Read “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?  

Day 4: World War.
In-class: Discuss the homework readings and questions on the First World War.
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Thursday, February 11, 2016

Week 7 - The New Imperialism

Tuesday through Friday, February 16-19, 2016

 Day 1/2: Capstone Research in Library
Period 7, Tuesday, 2/16
Period 4&5, Wednesday, 2/17
Period 3, Thursday, 2/18

Day 1/2: The New Imperialism
Period 3, Tuesday, 2/16,
Period 7, Wednesday, 2/17,
and Periods 4&5, Thursday, 2/18: 
In-class: Discuss the primary source handouts:
Primary source #1: Friedrich Fabri, "Does Germany Need Colonies?".
Primary source #2: Rudyard Kipling, "The White Man's Burden".
Primary source #4: Gandhi, "Facing the British in India".

Review the homework textbook reading, “Mass Politics and Imperial Domination: Democracy and the New Imperialism, 1870-1914,” in The West in the World, eds. Sherman/Salisbury, pp. 609-623, take notes on the following key terms, and develop an answer to the related questions. 
Key Terms: the new imperialism, the scramble for Africa, the Boer War, the Opium Wars, the Taiping Rebellion, the Meiji Restoration and the Russo-Japanese War. 
Key question#1: What are the causes for the rise of imperialism during this period? 
Key question#2: What are the legacies of 19th-century European imperialism for both Western and non-Western peoples? 
Key question#3: How did peoples in Africa, the Middle East and Asia respond to the rise of a new wave of European imperialism in the late 19th century?  
  
Homework for Day 3: Read the secondary source handouts (see the selected documents below), identify the arguments and evidence of the secondary sources, and use these sources to build your notes on the leading questions, i.e., the causes and effects of the new imperialism and how the non-Western world responded to it.
Secondary source#1: Eric J. Hobsbawm, "The Age of Empire".
Secondary source #2: Carlton J. H. Hayes, "Imperialism as a Nationalistic Phenomenon".
Secondary source #4: Margaret Strobel, "Gender and Empire.
Secondary source #5: Pankaj Mishra, "From the Ruins of Empire", Prologue.

 Day 3: The Responses of the Non-Western World to Imperialism.
In-class: Discuss the secondary source arguments and evidence on European imperialism and non-western responses to imperialism.
Homework over the weekend: Work on capstone proposals, or decide on final exam; work on revising final drafts of the independent research papers.
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Friday, February 5, 2016

Week 6 - Mass Politics and Democracy

Monday through Thursday, February 8-11.
Independent research paper rough drafts DUE by the end of the day, Thursday, 2/11.
Friday, 2/12: Faculty Professional Development Day (no school).
Monday, 2/15: Presidents' Day (no school).

Day 1, Monday, February 8, 2015: The Welfare State.
In-class: Continue discussion of the capstone project guidelines and legacy projects.
In-class: Chronicle current events.

Homework for Day 2/3 (Short periods): Please read “Mass Politics and Imperial Domination: Democracy and the New Imperialism, 1870-1914,” in The West in the World, eds. Sherman/Salisbury, pp. 597-609 (up until the section on "The New Imperialism"), take notes on the following key terms and persons, and develop an answer to the related questions.
Key Terms: Reform Bills of 1867 and 1884, France’s Third Republic, The Paris Commune, strikes, the First International, Kulturkampf, the Fabians, Britain’s Labour Party, German Social Democrats, Anarchism, Anti-Semitism, Ultranationalism, the Dreyfus Affair, Zionism, and suffrage movements.
Key Persons: Bakunin and Theodor Herzl  
Key question#1: In what ways were large numbers of people incorporated into politics during this period?
Key question#2: Why were some areas and groups still left out of the political arena in 1914?

Day 2/3 (Long periods): Independent Research.
In-class: Meet in library to research, develop topic proposal drafts, and discuss with instructor. 

Day 2/3 (Short periods): Mass Politics and Democracy.
In-class: Discuss the reading, key terms, persons and questions from homework.

Homework for WEEK 7,
Period 3, Tuesday, 2/16,
Period 7, Wednesday, 2/17,
and Periods 4&5, Thursday, 2/18: 
Please read “Mass Politics and Imperial Domination: Democracy and the New Imperialism, 1870-1914,” in The West in the World, eds. Sherman/Salisbury, pp. 609-623, take notes on the following key terms, and develop an answer to the related questions. 
Key Terms: the new imperialism, the scramble for Africa, the Boer War, the Opium Wars, the Taiping Rebellion, the Meiji Restoration and the Russo-Japanese War. 
Key question#1: What are the causes for the rise of imperialism during this period? 
Key question#2: What are the legacies of 19th-century European imperialism for both Western and non-Western peoples? 
Key question#3: How did peoples in Africa, the Middle East and Asia respond to the rise of a new wave of European imperialism in the late 19th century?  
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