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Introduction to Class and Requirements |
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| 2 |
Transatlantic Contacts and Indian Ocean Encounters
Discussion: Letter from Columbus |
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Indian Ocean Encounters; Conquest in the New World |
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Discussion: Catalina de Erauso, Lieutenant Nun |
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Racism I: New World Slavery |
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| 6 |
Discussion: The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Equiano |
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The Ottoman Empire; Absolutism in Europe |
First paper due |
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Revolution in France |
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| 9 |
Discussion: Abbé Sieyés; Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen, and other documents from L. Hunt, The French Revolution and Human Rights |
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| 10 |
Revolution in Haiti
Discussion: Readings and documents on Toussant L'Overture (from Liberty, Equality, Fraternity) |
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European Industrialization
Discussion: The World that Trade Created |
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Social Implications of Industrialization
Discussion: Documents on child labor and social conditions of industrialization, Smiles, Self-Help and Communist Manifesto |
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The (Mis)Measure of Man: Culture of Technology and Race "Science" |
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From the Opium Wars to the Boxer Uprising in the Far East |
Second paper due |
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The New Imperialism and the Scramble for Africa |
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| 16 |
Discussion of Chinua Achebe's, Things Fall Apart |
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Cultural Transformation & Economic Genocide |
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| 18 |
The Modern Metropolis and the Origins of Mass Culture |
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| 19 |
Discussion: Advertising: The Magic System, and "From Salvation to Self-Realization" |
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| 20 |
The First World War |
Third paper due |
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Socialism in the Soviet Union and China |
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| 22 |
World War II |
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| 23 |
Discussion: Heda Kovaly, Under a Cruel Star |
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| 24 |
Decolonization
Discussion: Short Excerpt from The Wretched of the Earth |
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The Cold War |
Fourth paper due |
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"Globalization"? |
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Final Exam |
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