History
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History of the Modern Era mwf
"To remain
ignorant of what happened before you were born is to remain always a
child" - Cicero
Kandinsky's
Composition VII (1913).
The purpose of this course is to teach
you enough history to understand how the world got to be the way it is,
and to
put you in a position to understand all the changes it will undergo
during the
rest of your life. Since there is an enormous amount that we could talk
about
in this class we will focus on a few themes including the the rise of
the state
in the Early Modern period, the French Revolution and the development
of mass
nationalism, the Industrial Revolution and the beginning of modern
life, and
that lousy century of disillusionment and war, the 20th. Most of ideas
and
trends that we will discuss began among the elite in the West but then
spread
around the world, a process that proved to be much more complex than a
simple
borrowing of Western techniques and resulted in enormous changes in the
lives
of people in both the developed and the undeveloped world. By the end
of the
class you should be in a much better position to understand who we are
and who
they are and what the connections between us are.
Professor Alan Baumler 216 Keith,
phone 7-4066
E-mail baumler@iup.edu Office Hours MWF
10:30-11:30, 1:00-2:00 and by appointment.
Web Page http://www.chss.iup.edu/baumler/index.html
Web
CT
There is a Web CT test for each week of the course. Each week you will
need to
log into the WebCT (http://www.iup.edu/WebCT)
page and take a short test. The
questions will be on the readings for that week or on things we
discussed in
class the week before. You can take each quiz only once and you will
have only
a certain amount of time to take it, so it is important that you do the
reading
before you take the quiz.
Books
McKay,
et al A History of World Societies 7th
ed.
volume C. New York:
Houghton Mifflin 2004.
Voltaire Candide Henry
Morley trans. New York: Barnes & Noble 2003.
Topics and
readings
8/28 Early
Modern Europe
The society
of orders.
Peasants, the church and the bourgeoisie. Coffeehouses, printing
and the
public sphere.
-Robert Darnton "Peasants
Tell Tales: The Meaning of Mother Goose" from The Great Cat
Massacre
and other Episodes in French Cultural History. Basic Books, 1984.
This is
on e-reserve in the library.
9/11 Early modern states
outside Europe
Qing China, the Ottoman Empire and Early Modern
States outside Europe.
Kishlansky et. al. 680-711 (on e-reserve)
Wu Jingzi Scholars
9/18 Empire
and Enlightenment
European
empires in the Americas
and elsewhere.
The Enlightenment and new ideas about society and government.
-Voltaire Candide
all.
9/25 Revolution in the
colonies and France
American
Revolution and the
rights of Englishmen. French Revolution and the rights of man. Napoleon
and the
liberation and enslavement of Europe.
-McKay 659-690
-Declaration
of Independence
-What
is
the Third Estate?
10/2 Industrial Revolution
and new ideologies
Mineral power
and production.
New patterns of distribution and consumption. Late industrializers and
non-industrializers. The new social classes and class conflict.
-McKay, pp.691-734
Lloyd The
Lords of Industry
10/9 Upheavals and the Age of
Nationalism
The
Revolutions of 1848 and the
birth of Nationalist and Socialist Europe. National unification. The
responsive
national state and Victorianism.
-McKay, pp. 721-764
Mazzini
"Essay on the Duties of Man, Addressed to Workingmen
10/16 Imperialism and the
response
Economic
transformation of Africa.
Revolutionary reform in Japan. Ottoman reform and
Islamic
radicalism.
-McKay, pp. 765-828
Tsude Mamichi and Sakatani Shironi on
marriage
Mid-term
10/23 War
and Revolution
World War One
and the end of the
Victorian Age. Revolution in Russia.
The promise of a new world.
-McKay, pp. 935-966
Lenin "What
is to be Done?" (excerpts)
Full
Text
10/30 Age
of Anxiety and the
new state
Freud and
Einstein. Great
Depression and the birth of the welfare state.
-McKay, pp. 931-956
Beveridge
Report
11/6 Nationalism and
Revolution in Asia
Attaturk and
the Turkish nation.
Revolution in China,
Successor states in the Middle East
-McKay, pp. 901-930
Mao
on New Democracy
11/13 Totalitarian options
Fascism and
Nazism in Europe. Communism and the
Maoist model
-McKay, pp. 957-990
Hitler
"1921 Speech"
11/20 Cold
war
Cold war and
the Third World. Collapse of the Soviet Union. End of
Communism in China
McKay, pp. 991-1028
Kennan
"Sources of Soviet Conduct"
12/4 Neo-liberalism
vs. the clash of civilizations
The New
Europe and the decline
of nationalism. WTO and globalism. Lee Guan Yu and the Pacific Rim. Iraq and the U.S.
McKay 1029-end
Final Exam
Papers
Each of you will write at a short paper on Candide and at
least one source analysis paper on one of our primary source readings.
If you like you can write more than one and toss out the low grades. Guidelines
for writing on primary sources.
Grades
Weekly tests 20%
Mid-term 30%
Short papers 20%
Final Exam 30%
A=90%
B=80%
C=70%
D=60%
F=50%
-Attendance
policy-- You should come to class every
day, but
the point is not just to come to class, but to come having done your
reading
and being ready to talk about it.
-Academic
dishonesty-- All students are required to abide by
the
University's policies on Academic Integrity, as found in the
catalogue.