History
195 History of the Modern Era w "To remain
ignorant of what happened before you were born is to remain always a
child" - Cicero
More Men, More Arms, More Munitions.
Spanish Civil War poster
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 AlanBaumler 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
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.
Voltaire Candide Henry
Morley trans. New York: Barnes & Noble 2003.
Topics and
readings 1/24 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.
1/31Empire
and Enlightenment European
empires in the Americas
and elsewhere.
The Enlightenment and new ideas about society and government. -Voltaire Candide
all.
2/7Revolution 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? 2/14Industrial 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
2/21 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 2/28Imperialism 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
3/7 Nation Building in the Western Hemisphere Rails and economic unity. Slavery, race and citizenship.
-McKay pp. 829-870 Lloyd
The
Lords of Industry Mid-term (In class on 3/7)
3/21 War
and Revolution World War One
and the end of the
Victorian Age. Revolution in Russia.
-McKay, pp. 871-900 Lenin "What
is to be Done?" (excerpts) Full
Text
3/28 Age
of Anxiety and the
new state Freud and
Einstein. Great
Depression and the birth of the welfare state. Stalin and the planned
economy -McKay, pp. 931-956 Beveridge
Report
4/4 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
4/11 Totalitarian options Fascism and
Nazism in Europe. Communism and the
Maoist model -McKay, pp. 957-990
Eco Eternal
Fascism
4/18 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"
4/25 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. There will
also be various other short writing assignments both in class and
outside, all of which will be part of your quiz grade. Guidelines
for writing on primary sources.
Grades
Candide paper 15%
Mid-term 30%
Quiz grades 25%
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.
