MODERN WORLD HISTORY (42.113)
Spring 2002 Sections 2 and 3
M. Hickey Old Science Hall Rm. 130 389-4161
Office Hours: M- W 2:00-3:00; T, Th 2-3:30
hickey@planetx.bloomu.edu or hickey@bloomu.edu
Navigation links for this syllabus EXAM # 3 STUDY QUESTIONS
Introduction Grading Criteria Required Texts
Lecture and Reading Schedule (Links to Assignments and Questions)
Using On-Line Discussion Board Link to On-Line Discussion Board
Quoting, Paraphrasing, Summarizing, Plagiarism/ Footnotes, Endnotes, Parenthetical Citations
Introduction
Our era is often referred to as an Age of Globalization, in which the fate of nation-states is increasingly bound to world-wide developments in the economy, politics, environment, and culture. And yet amidst the universalizing tendencies of globalization, we are also experiencing trends such as increasing nationalism and even tribalism. Without a solid background in history, the world that is unfolding in our new millennium can seem random and inexplicable. Giving time and serious thought to the study of modern world history, however, might help us make sense of our present and future.
This course is built around several major themes of Modern World History, including:
the organizational basis of industrial capitalism and its human impact;
the spread of liberty and rights and conflicts over their definitions and limits;
the development of mass politics and in particular the politics of nationalism;
non-European responses to the rising power of Europe and North America;
the causes and impacts of the First World War;
the rise of “totalitarian” alternatives to liberal capitalism;
the causes and impacts of the Second World War;
revolutions and de-colonization;
the Cold War and issues that it overshadowed;
globalization and its discontents.
Grading Criteria
A final grade of "A" in this course means that your cumulative score on all assignments adds up to 93 percent or more of possible points. A-=90-92; B+=88-89; B=83-87; B-80-82; C+=78-79; C=73-77; C-=70-72; D+= 68-69; D=60-67.
Attendance is required. In addition, please make use of the On-Line Discussion Board. (To see directions for using the Discussion Board, click here.)
Your grade will be based upon four in-class examinations. Exam questions shall be based on the study questions linked to this on-line syllabus.
Exam One is 10 percent of your course grade. Half of the exam will be on reading assignments from the course textbook (Bulliet) and half on the course lectures.
Exam Two is 20 percent of your course grade. The exam will be on The Autobiography of Yukichi Fukazawa.
Exam Three is 30 percent of your course grade and covers material since the first exam. One quarter of the exam will be on textbook assignments, one quarter on lectures, and one-half on Klemperer, I Will Bear Witness (1/2 of exam).
The Final Exam is 40 percent of your course grade and covers material since the third exam. One quarter of the essay is on textbook assignments, one quarter on lectures, and one-half on Zhu, Thirty Years in a Red House.
The main criteria used in grading all exam questions shall be: 1) Have you answered the entire question as it was asked; 2) Is your answer factually correct; 3) Is your answer based upon clear and sound logic; 4) Does your answer provide appropriate evidence; and 5) Is your answer presented in clear, grammatical English?
I will enforce university policy on cheating and plagiarism, as it is defined at the web site http://www.bloomu.edu/academic/acadpol.shtml.
Required Texts
Richard W. Bulliet, et. al., The Earth and Its Peoples: A Global History, Vol. II, Since1500, Brief Edition (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000). Link to Bulliet study questions
The Autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa, revised translation by Eiichi Kiyooka (New York: Columbia University Press, 1966). Link to Fukazawa Study Questions
Victor Klemperer, I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years, 1933-1941, translated by Martin Chalmers (New York: The Modern Library, 1999). Link to Klemperer Study Questions.
Zhu Xiao Di, Thirty Years in a Red House: A Memoir of Childhood and Youth in Communist China (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1998). Link to Zhu Study Questions.
GENERAL SCHEDULE OF LECTURES AND ASSIGNMENTS--WITH HOTLINKS TO STUDY QUESTIONS AND WEB-BASED READINGS
Week I (15, 17 Jan.): The organizational basis of industrial capitalism and its human costs
Read Bulliet, ch. 19. Link to Bulliet study questions
Link to documents on the Sadler Commission's 1832 report on textile workers in Britain. From the web site http://www.uni-wuppertal.de/FB4/anglistik/projekte/hammes/victorianpage/seite3.htm#sadler
Link to Lecture Study Questions
Week II (22, 24 Jan.): Revolutions in France and elsewhere—rights, liberty, and conflicts over their definition and limits
Read Bulliet, ch. 20. Link to Bulliet study questions.
Link to documents on the French revolutions of 1789-1799 and 1848.
This includes links to "The Declaration of Rights of Man (1789)" (http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/rightsof.htm); "The Constitution of the Year II (1795)" (http://www.napoleonseries.org/reference/political/legislation/constitution3.cfm ); "The Constitution of the Year XII (1804)" (http://www.napoleonseries.org/reference/political/legislation/constitution12.cfm) and excerpts from 1848 in France, ed. by Roger Price (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1970).
Link to Lecture Study Questions.
Week III (29, 31 Jan.): The Dual Revolutions and the non-European world
Read Bulliet, chs. 20-21. Link to Bulliet study questions.
Link to Lecture Study Questions.
Week IV (5, 7 Feb.): Divergent responses to the rise of Euro-American power; Exam One
Read Bulliet, chs. 21-22. Link to Bulliet study questions.
Link to document on Chinese-British relations on the eve of the Opium War (1839)
This includes a link to "Lin Zixu/ Lin Tse-Hsü, Letter of Advice to Queen Victoria (1839)" (at http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/texts/com-lin.html).
Begin reading Fukazawa. Link to Fukazawa Study Questions.
Link to Lecture Study Questions.
Week V (12, 14 Feb.): Mass politics and nationalism in Europe, 1850-1914
Read Bulliet, chs. 23-24. Link to Bulliet study questions.
Continue reading Fukazawa. Link to Fukazawa Study Questions.
Link to Lecture Study Questions.
Week VI (19, 21 Feb.): Japan and China respond to crisis, 1850-1914
Read Bulliet, ch. 24. Link to Bulliet study questions.
Finish reading Fukazawa. Link to Fukazawa Study Questions.
Link to Lecture Study Questions.
Week VII (26, 28 Feb.): Catch-up time; Exam Two
Week VIII (5, 7 March): Imperialism and its manifestations in Asia, Africa, and Latin America
Read Bulliet, ch. 24. Link to Bulliet study questions.
Link to documents on Imperialism and on US Intervention in the Philippines.
This includes links to William McKinley, "Decision on the Philippines" (1900) (at http://occ.awlonline.com/bookbind/pubbooks/nash5e_awl/medialib/timeline/docs/sources/theme_primarysources_Military_2_6.html and to "The Economic Basis of 'Imperialism,'" by Charles A. Conant (at http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/moa-cgi?notisid=ABQ7578-0167-33)
Link to Lecture Study Questions.
NOTE: NO CLASS ON 12, 14 March----SPRING BREAK!!!!!
Week IX (19, 21 March): World War One
Read Bulliet, ch. 25. Link to Bulliet study questions.
Begin reading Klemperer. Link to Klemperer Study Questions.
Link to Lecture Study Questions.
Week X (26, 28 March): Failed post-war stabilization and totalitarian alternatives to liberal capitalism
Read Bulliet, ch. 25. Link to Bulliet study questions.
Continue reading Klemperer. Link to Klemperer Study Questions.
Link to Lecture Study Questions.
Week XI (2-4 April): Stalinism, Fascism, Nazism
Read Bulliet ch. 25. Link to Bulliet study questions.
Finish reading Klemperer. Link to Klemperer Study Questions.
Link to Lecture Study Questions.
Week XII (9, 11 April): Nazism; Exam III.
This is NOT a required assignment: If you are interested in reading documents on Nazi policy towards Jews in Germany during the period of the Klemperer diary, click on this link to the resources of Yad Vashem at http://www.yad-vashem.org.il/education/index_education.html.
Link to Lecture Study Questions.
Week XIII (16, 18 April): World War Two
Read Buillet, ch, 25. Link to Bulliet study questions.
This includes links to "The Nanking Massacre, 1937" (at http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/nanking.html); The British War Bluebook Non-Aggression Pact Between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics" (at http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/wwii/bluebook/blbk61.htm); The Commissar’s Order For “Operation Barbarossa” (at http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/Holocaust/commissar.html); From Hitler's Testament (at http://www.yad-vashem.org.il/about_holocaust/documents/part1/doc72.html).
Link to Lecture Study Questions.
Week XIV (23, 25 April): Origins of the Cold War; Revolution and de-colonization in the developing world
Read Buillet, chs. 26-27. Link to Bulliet study questions.
Begin reading Zhu. Link to Zhu Study Questions..
Link to Lecture Study Questions.
Week XV (30 April, 2 May): The Cold War and the issues that it overshadowed; Globalization and its discontents
Read Buillet, chs. 27-29. Link to Bulliet study questions.
Finish reading Zhu. Link to Zhu Study Questions..
Link to Lecture Study Questions.