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History 1011 World History, 1500-Present Spring 2015 Professor Dane Kennedy Office: Phillips 312 Phone: 994-6229; email: [email protected] Office Hours: Tuesdays 2-3; Thursdays 11-12, and by appointment Course Themes and Goals: This course is an introduction to world history over the past half millennium. It will stress the themes of exchange and integration, tracing the ways in which the various peoples of the world became increasingly bound together as part of a common system. It seeks to show how forces such as capitalism and imperialism brought about a global exchange of peoples, goods, technologies, ideas, institutions, beliefs, customs, plants, animals, and diseases. The consequences of these exchanges and their implications for the world we inhabit will be considered. Learning Objectives: Students who complete this course should be able to identify important people, events, and themes in world history since 1500; identify the basic geographical factors that shaped that history; and understand the major economic, social, political, and cultural forces that transformed the lives of various peoples around the globe. In addition, students should be able to identify the main arguments of secondary sources and critically analyze their merits. Lastly, students should be able to synthesize material from lectures and readings to evaluate historical events; apply critical reading skills to works of historical scholarship; and write clearly organized and informed interpretations of their own. Course Requirements: This is a lecture course with weekly discussion sections run by graduate teaching assistants. It is important that you attend the lectures and discussion sections, do the readings, and participate in discussions. Graded work will consist of a midterm exam (15%), a final exam (20%), exhibit report (5%), two 4-6 page papers (20% each), and discussion section (20%). I reserve the right, however, to change this distribution during the course of the semester. Failure to meet deadlines for assigned work will result in a grade penalty in the absence of documented proof of illness or other unavoidable personal misfortune. The following formula will determine grades: any numerical total below .3 (93, 83, etc.) will be a minus (A-, B-, etc.); any numerical total above .7 (97, 87, etc.) will be a plus (A+, B+, etc.). The exams will consist of essay questions and short identifications. The two papers will examine themes raised in course readings. The particulars of each paper assignments and the criteria by which they will be graded will be announced in writing in the course of the semester. All papers must be submitted electronically on SafeAssign and in hard copy to your GTA. Classroom Behavior: As a matter of common courtesy, you should avoid disturbing other students. This means that you should turn off cell phones when you enter the classroom, avoid private conversations with your neighbors, and stay in your seat for the 1 full class period. If you know that you must leave the classroom before the lecture ends, be sure that you are seated near an exit. Academic Integrity: Be sure to familiarize yourself with the Code of Academic Integrity (http://www.gwu.edu/~ntegrity/code.html). Plagiarism and cheating are serious violations of university rules that can result in suspension or expulsion. Plagiarism is borrowing someone else’s words without credit, and it can include close paraphrasing. Handing in a paper written in whole or part by someone else is cheating. I will vigorously prosecute any suspected cases. If you are unsure of the rules, speak with me or your GTA. Books to be Purchased: Jerry Bentley & Herbert Ziegler, Traditions and Encounters, vol. 2, sixth ed. Timothy Brook, Vermeer’s Hat Marcus Rediker, The Slave Ship Cyrus Veeser, Great Leaps Forward Greg Grandin, Fordlandia In addition, documents will be posted as electronic reserves on the Blackboard course site. Note: All assigned readings should be completed on Wednesday of the week they are due. Dates Lecture Topics/Reading Assignments Jan. 13 Jan. 15 Introduction The Eurasian World Prior to 1500 Read: Bentley, Traditions, ch. 23 Jan. 20 Jan. 22 Other Worlds Prior to 1500 The Roots of European Hegemony Read: Bentley, Traditions, ch. 22; Brook, Vermeer’s Hat, chs. 1-3 Jan. 27 Jan. 28 Jan. 29 The Columbian Exchange Exhibit Report Due The Destruction of Native American Societies Read: Bentley, Traditions, ch. 24; Brook, Vermeer’s Hat, chs. 4-6 Feb. 3 Feb. 5 Challenge from the East Africa and the Transatlantic Slave Trade Read: Bentley, Traditions, ch. 25, 27; Brook, Vermeer’s Hat, chs. 7-8; Rediker, Slave Ship, intro, chs. 2-3 Documents: Cortez on City of Mexico; de las Casas, Destruction of Indies Feb. 10 Feb. 12 Trade, Culture, and Pluralism in the East Rise of Mercantile Empires Read: Bentley, Traditions, ch. 26; Rediker, Slave Ship, chs. 4-7 2 Documents: Barbot on Slave Trade Feb. 17 Feb. 19 New World Societies Fatal Impact: Australasia and the Pacific Read: Bentley, Traditions, ch. 30; Rediker, Slave Ship, chs. 8-10 Documents: Smith, On Colonies; Banks on South Seas Feb. 24 Feb. 25 Feb. 26 Read: Political Revolutions First Paper Due Economic Revolutions Bentley, Traditions, ch. 28-29 Documents: Declaration of Rights of Man; Rights of Women March 3 March 5 Ideological Revolutions Midterm Exam March 10 March 12 Spring Break Spring Break March 17 The Age of the Anthropocene March 19 Societies Under Strain Read: Bentley, Traditions, ch. 31; Veeser, Great Leaps, intro, ch. 1-2 Documents: Commissioner Lin to Queen Victoria March 24 Pax Britannica March 26 Nationalism and the New Imperialism Read: Bentley, Traditions, ch. 32; Veeser, Great Leaps, ch. 3-4, epilogue Documents: Ferry, On Colonial Expansion; Mazzini, On Nationality March 31 The Triple Challenge: Workers, Women, and Wogs April 2 Europe’s Civil War Read: Bentley, Traditions, ch. 33, 35; Grandin, part 1 Documents: Gandhi on Swaraj April 7 April 9 The Global System in Crisis World War Read: Bentley, Traditions, ch. 34; Grandin, part 2 Documents: Mussolini on Fascism; USSR Economic Policy April 14 A Bipolar World April 16 Decolonization and the New International Order Read: Bentley, Traditions, ch. 36-37; Grandin, part 3 April 21 April 22 April 23 Pax Americana Second Paper Due Conclusions 3 Read: Bentley, Traditions, ch. 38 Due Dates: Exhibit Report—Jan. 28 First Paper—Feb. 25 Midterm Exam—March 5 Second Paper—April 22 Final Exam (not yet announced) 4