History
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History of the Modern Era
"To remain
ignorant of what happened before you were born is to remain always a
child" - Cicero
Page from the diary of a soldier in the Great War
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
10:00-11:00, 1:15-2:15 and by appointment.
Web Page http://www.chss.iup.edu/baumler/index.html
All of the primary source readings are linked to through this page.
Other readings can be found on e-reserve
Books
McKay,
et al A History of World Societies 7th
ed.
volume C. New York:
Houghton Mifflin 2004.
Graves Goodbye to All That Anchor,
1998
Topics and
readings
8/27 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.
9/5 Enlightenment
The Enlightenment and new ideas about
society and government.
-Declaration
of Independence
9/10 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
-What
is
the Third Estate?
9/17 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
Ure, The
Philosophy of the Manufacturers
9/24 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
First Exam
10/1 Imperialism and the
response
Economic
transformation of Africa.
Revolutionary reform in Japan. Failure of reform in
China. Boxers and the response.
-McKay, pp. 765-828
Zou Rong The
Revolutionary Army
10/8 Nation Building in the
Western Hemisphere
Rails and economic unity. Slavery, race and citizenship.
-McKay pp. 829-870
Lloyd
The
Lords of Industry
10/15 War
and Revolution
Political impact of World War One. Revolution
in Russia and the
revolutionary party.
-McKay, pp. 871-900
10/22 Good-Bye To All That
Graves, Goodbye To All That
10/29 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
Second Exam
11/5 Nationalism and
Revolution in Asia
Attaturk and
the Turkish nation.
Revolution in China,
Successor states in the Middle East
-McKay, pp. 901-930
Liu Shaoqi "How
to be a Good Communist"
(excerpts)
Full
Text
11/12 Totalitarian options
Fascism and
Nazism in Europe. Communism and the
Maoist model
-McKay, pp. 957-990
Eco Eternal
Fascism
11/ 26 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"
12/3 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
Grades
Quizes and in-class assignments 10%
Exams 30% each
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.