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Global and International History:
Paths to the Present
POL-GA.1734.003
Spring 2014
Wednesday, 10:00am-11:50am
19 West 4th Street, Rm. 212
Prof. John Fousek
[email protected]
Office Hours: Tu, W 2pm-4pm
Rm 534, 19 University Place
Description:
This course will introduce students to historical analysis of global interactions during the early
modern, modern, and contemporary periods. It seeks, in part, to provide historical perspectives
on ‘globalization’ and other contemporary global, international and transnational developments.
Overall the course explores themes such as patterns of long-distance trade, human migrations
and cross-cultural encounters. It will also examine the history of global and international order,
considering such topics as the formation, expansion, and interaction of empires and nation states,
the role of international organizations and the rise of transnational movements and ideas. A
varied set of specific historical settings or conflicts will be explored in depth. The course does
not aim to present a comprehensive world history but introduces themes and analytical
approaches that are foundational to more advanced study of international interactions.
Readings:
1. Required books are listed below and should be obtained by students. The required books
may be purchased through NYU Bookstore.
2. All other required readings identified in this syllabus (articles or book chapters) will be
posted to the NYU Classes site for this course, or will be accessible online.
Required Books:
 Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper, Empires in World History: Power and the Politics
of Difference, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010)
 Barry Eichengreen, Globalizing Capital: A History of the International Monetary System
 Mark Mazower, Governing the World: A History of an Idea
 Samual Moyn, The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History
 Jurgen Osterhammel and Niels P. Petersson, Globalization: A Short History
 Kenneth Pomeranz, The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the
Modern World Economy, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000)
Requirements and Grading:
Students are responsible for completing all readings and attending all class sessions.
Students are also responsible for several writing assignments, all double-spaced, in standard font
size (12 pt., Times New Roman).
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Writing assignments are as follows:
 Weekly response papers (1 page) reacting to the readings, along with two discussion
questions about the week’s readings. Each of these response papers is to be posted to the
NYU Classes site for this course by 11:00pm the night before each class meeting.
 A 6-8 page exploratory essay on a major theme of the course. This essay may be
developed from one of your weekly response papers. It is due in the instructor’s mailbox
by March 12.
 A final paper (12-14 pages), reviewing the literature on a topic to be chosen in
consultation with the instructor, due May 19.
Consultation on Final Paper: Please arrange to meet with me no later than April 16, to discuss
the focus and content of your final paper.
Attendance & Participation: 20%
Weekly Response Papers: 20%
Critical Essay: 20%
Final Paper: 40%
Schedule of Classes
Week 1: Jan. 29
Global History / International History: Globalizing History & Historicizing the Globe
Readings:
 Martin Lewis, “Geographies” in The Oxford Handbook of World History, Jerry H.
Bentley (ed.), (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), 36-53;
 Burbank and Cooper, “Imperial Trajectories,” Empires in World History, Ch. 1 (pp. 1-22)
 Akira Iriye, "Internationalizing International History," in Rethinking American History in
a Global Age, T. Bender (ed.), (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002) 47-62.
 A.G. Hopkins, "The History of Globalization—and the Globalization of History?" in A.
G. Hopkins, ed. Globalization in World History, 12-44
 Immanuel Wallerstein, “The Rise and Future Demise of the World Capitalist System,”
Comparative Studies in Society and History, 16(Sept. 1974): 387-415
Week 2: Feb. 5
Globalization: Historical Perspectives
Readings:
 Osterhammel and Petersson, Globalization: A Short History
Week 3: Feb. 12
Eurasian Linkages: Religion, Power, Environment, Trade
Readings:
 Burbank and Cooper, Empires in World History, Ch. 2, 23-59; Ch. 3, 61-92; Ch. 4, 93116; Ch. 7, 185-218
 James D. Tracy, “Trade across Eurasia to About 1750,” in Bentley, ed., Oxford
Handbook of World History, 288-303
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Week 4: Feb. 19
Empires & Ocean Worlds: Ottoman and European Expansionism, from the Mediterranean to
the Atlantic and Indian Oceans
Readings:
 Burbank and Cooper, Empires in World History, Chs. 5-6 (pp. 117-184)
 David Abulafia, “Mediterranean History,” in Jerry H. Bentley (ed.), The Oxford
Handbook of World History, (Oxford University Press, 2011), pp. 493-508
 Giancarlo Casale, “The Ottoman ‘Discovery’ of the Indian Ocean in the Sixteenth
Century,” in Bentley et al, eds., Seascapes: Maritime Histories, Littoral Cultures, and
Transoceanic Exchanges (University of Hawai’i Press, 2007), pp. 87-104
 Lauren Benton, “Legal Spaces of Empire: Piracy and the Origins of Ocean Regionalism,”
in Comparative Studies in Society and History, 47:4(2005): 700-724
 Philip Morgan, “Africa and the Atlantic, c. 1450 to c. 1820,” in Jack Greene and Philip
Morgan, eds., Atlantic History: A Critical Appraisal, pp. 223-248
Week 5: Feb. 26
Emergence of the Modern World Economy: Did ‘the West’ Diverge from ‘the Rest’? And if so,
When, How, and Why?
Readings:
 Kenneth Pomeranz, The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the
Modern World Economy, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000). 1-107, 211-269.
 Geoffrey Parker, “Europe and the wider world, 1500-1750,” in James Tracy, ed., The
Political Economy of Merchant Empires (New York, 1991), 161-195
Week 6: Mar. 5
Empires, States and Citizenship in the Making of the Modern World
Readings:
 Burbank and Cooper, Empires in World History, Ch. 8 (pp. 219-250)
 Samuel Moyn, The Last Utopia, ch. 1 (pp. 11-43)
 Charles Tilly, “How War Made States” and “States and Their Citizens,” chapters 3 and 4
in Tilly, Coercion, Capital and European States: AD 990-1992 (pp. 67-126)
 Christopher Bayly, “The ‘Revolutionary Age’ in the Wider World, c. 1790-1830,” in
Richard Bessel, Nicholas Guyatt and Jane Rendall, eds., War, Empire and Slavery, 17701830 (Palgrave MacMillan, London; 2010), pp. 21-43
Week 7: Mar. 12
Industrial Revolution, Global Trade, and Social Transformations
Readings:
 Findlay and O’Rourke, Power and Plenty, Preface (IIIS Discussion Paper), 1-20
 Patrick Karl O’Brien, “Industrialization,” in Bentley, ed., The Oxford Handbook of World
History, 304-324
 Patrick Karl O’Brien, “Intercontinental Trade and the Development of the Third World
since the Industrial Revolution,” Journal of World History, 8(Spring 1997):75-133
 Jeffrey A. Frieden, “The Modern Capitalist World Economy: A Historical Overview,”
17-37
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March 14:
Essay due (in my mailbox) by 4:00pm
Spring Recess: No Class on Mar. 19
Week 8: Mar. 26
Continental Empires, Global Migrations, Modern Colonialism
Readings:
 Burbank and Cooper, Empires in World History, Chs. 9-10 (pp. 251-330)
 Dirk Hoerder, “Crossing the Waters: Historic Developments and Periodizations before
the 1830s,” in Donna R. Gabaccia and Dirk Hoerder, eds., Connecting Seas and
Connected Ocean Rims: Indian, Atlantic, and Pacific Oceans and China Sees Migrations
from the 1830s to the 1930s (Boston, Brill; 2011), pp. 12-41
 Adam McKeown, “Global Migration, 1846-1940,” Journal of World History 15 (June
2004): 155-189
 Adam McKeown, “Different transitions: comparing China and Europe,
1600–1900,” Journal of Global History (2011) 6, pp. 309–319
Week 9: Apr. 2
Sovereignty, Empire, and Internationalism in the 19th Century
Readings:
 Burbank and Cooper, Empires in World History, Ch. 11 (pp. 331-368)
 Mazower, Governing the World, Prologue and chs. 1-4 (pp. 3-115)
 Eichengreen, Globalizing Capital, ch. 1-2 (pp. 1-42)
Week 10: Apr. 9
Morality and Violence: War, Revolution, and Anti-Colonialism
Readings:
 Burbank and Cooper, Empires in World History, ch. 12 (pp. 369-411)
 Mazower, Governing the World, chs. 5-6 (pp. 116-188)
 Moyn, The Last Utopia, ch. 3 (pp. 84-119)
Recommended reading:
Erez Manela, The Wilsonian Moment: Self-Determination and the International Origins of
Anticolonial Nationalism, 1917-1920 (Oxford University Press, 2007), Introduction (pp. 3-13)
and ch. 2 (pp. 35-53).
Week 11: Apr. 16
Global Capital, ‘National’ States, and International Institutions
Readings:
 Eichengreen, Governing the World, chs. 3-7 (pp. 43-232)
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Week 12: Apr. 23
Global Governance, from ‘One World’ to Three
Readings:
 Mazower, Governing the World, chs. 7-12 (pp. 191-377)
Week 13: Apr. 30
Human Rights, Humanity’s Law & World Orders (Old and New)
Readings:
 Moyn, The Last Utopia, chs. 4-5 and Epilogue (pp. 120-230)
 Mazower, Governing the World, chs. 13-14 (pp. 378-427)
Week 14: May 7
Political Imagination, International Organizations & Global Civil Society:
Historical Perspectives on MNCs, IGOs and NGOs
Readings:
 Burbank and Cooper, Empires in World History, ch. 14
 MNCs and the Global Economy:
1) Mira Wilkins, “Multinational Enterprise to 1930: Discontinuities and Continuities,”
in Chandler and Mazlish, eds., Leviathans: Multinational Corporations and the New
Global History (Cambridge University Press, 2005), ch. 2 (pp. 45-80)
2) Geoffrey Jones, “Multinationals from the 1930s to the 1980s,” in Chandler and
Mazlish, eds., Leviathans, ch. 3 (pp. 81-104)
3) Zhu Jia-Ming and Elliott R. Morss, “The Financial Revolutions of the Twentieth
Century,” in Chandler and Mazlish, eds., Leviathans, ch. 8 (pp. 203-217)
 IGOs and Global Governance:
1) Sunil Amrith and Glenda Sluga, “New Histories of the United Nations,” Journal of
World History, 19 (Sept. 2008):251-274 (editors’ introduction to special issue)
2) Alison Bashford, “Population, Geopolitics, and International Organizations in the
Mid Twentieth Century,” JWH, 19 (Sept. 2008):327-348
3) Laura Elizabeth Wong, “Relocating East and West,” [UNESCO project on ‘Cultural
Values’] JWH, 19 (Sept. 2008): 349-374
 NGOs and Global Civil Society:
1) Akira Iriye, Global Community, Introduction and ch. 1 (pp. 1-36)
2) Eleanor Davey et. al., A history of the humanitarian system: Western origins and
foundations (HPG Working Paper, Overseas Development Institute; London, 2013)
and other material from the HPG project ‘A Global History of Humanitarian Action’
3) Andrew Arsan, Su Lin Lewis and Anne-Isabelle Richard, “Editorial – the roots of
global civil society and the interwar moment,” Journal of Global History, Volume 7,
Issue 02, July 2012, pp 157-165 (Special Issue on Global Civil Society)
Week 15: May 14
 Concluding discussion and brief presentations
May 16 (Friday):
Final Paper Due, in instructor’s mailbox
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