Part 1. The Big Picture: A Quick Overview of Globalization and Its History
1/16 First Impressions—What is Globalization? What is its history?
1/18 Conceptualizing the History of Globalization
Marks, 1-17 (Introduction)
Osterhammel, and Petersson, Globalization: A Short History, 13-29 (Shared Files, MyJCU)
1/23 First Globalizations?: Conquerors, Merchants, and Missionaries to c. 1500
Marks, 19-65 (Ch. 1, 2)
1/25 The Birth of a Modern World Order, Pt. 1: Ships, Germs, and Empires, c. 1500-c. 1800
Marks, 66-96 (Ch. 3)
1/30 The Birth of a Modern World Order, Pt. II: Industrialization, c. 1750-c. 1850
Marks, 97-125 (Ch. 4)
2/1 The Opening of the "Gap": Industry, Imperialism, and Inequality, c. 1800-1900
Marks, 127-160 (Ch. 5)
2/6 A "New" World?: The Twentieth Century
Marks, 161-218 (Ch. 6, Conclusion)
Reaction Paper 1 Due
Part 2. Closer Looks, I: Seventeenth Century "Globalization," Trade, and Material Culture
2/8 "The View from Delft": Looking Outward From The Dutch Republic
Brook, 1-25 (Ch. 1)
2/13 "Vermeer's Hat": Furs, "Indians," and the Northwest Passage
Brook, 26-53 (Ch. 2)
2/15 CLASS CANCELLED
2/20 "A Dish of Fruit": How Porcelain Became "China"
Brook, 54-83 (Ch. 3)
2/22 "A School for Smoking": Tobacco and Opium
Brook, 117-151 (Ch. 5)
2/27 Snow Cancellation
3/1 "Weighing Silver": Precious Metals and the 17th-Century World Economy
Brook, 152-184 (Ch. 6)
Reaction Paper 2 Due (Optional Due Date)
3/6 "Journeys": Sea Travel and Its Hazards
Brook, 185-230 (Ch. 7, 8)
Note: By this date you should have also read Ch. 4 (Brook, 84-116)
Reaction Paper 2 Due (Must Be Handed in By This Date)
3/8 Midterm Exam
Part 3. Closer Looks II: Forging Local Links c. 1400 to the Present
3/13
The Rules of the Game: Making Market Conventions
Pomeranz and Topik, ix-xiii, 3-48 (Foreword, Introduction, Ch. 1)
3/15 From Here to There and Back Again: Transportation
Pomeranz and Topik, 49-80 (Ch. 2)
3/20 Chocolate, Opium, Coffee and Cocaine: Drug Trades and Drug Wars
Pomeranz and Topik, 81-107 (Ch. 3)
3/22 “Now we see the violence inherent in the system!”: Force and Fortunes
Pomeranz and Topik, 152-192 (Ch. 5)
Start Reading Ahead for March 29
3/27 Production, Consumption, and Meaning: The Lives of Commodities
Pomeranz and Topik, 108-151 (Ch. 4)
Keep Reading Ahead for March 29
Optional Due Date for Reaction Paper 3
3/29 Setting Standards: Making Modern Markets and Industrialization Revisited
Pomeranz and Topik, 193-287 (Ch. 6-7)
Optional Due Date for Reaction Paper 3
Part Four—Another Look, Food for Thought: Globalization’s History From the Ground Up
4/10 Fishing and First Encounters
Goucher, xv-xx, 3-37 (Introduction, Chp. 1)
Optional Due Date for Reaction Paper 3
4/12 Out of Africa: Food and the Slave Trade
Goucher, 38-88 (Chp. 2)
Optional Due Date for Reaction Paper 3
4/13 Double-Length FRIDAY MAKE-UP--2 p.m., C.2.2. (Critelli Campus)
Globalization, Pop Culture, and the Caribbean
Patterson, "Ecumenical America: Global Culture and the American Cosmos," 103-111
https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/patterson/files/ecumencial.pdf
Film Screening: The Harder They Come
Optional Due Date for Reaction Paper 3
4/17 Sweetness and Slavery: Food and the Plantation System
Goucher, 89-124 (Chp. 3)
Analytical Book Review Due
Optional Due Date for Reaction Paper 3
4/19 Food, Resistance and the Gods
Goucher, 125-157 (Chp. 4)
Optional Due Date for Reaction Paper 3
4/24 Food, Love and Women
Goucher, 158-192 (Chp. 5)
Optional Due Date for Reaction Paper 3
4/26 Globalization: Where, when, how, why, and so what?
Goucher, 193-218 (Chp. 6)
Pomeranz and Topik, 288-304 (Epilogue)--NOTE: Be sure to read the 4th edition epilogue, see MyJCU Shared Files.
Optional Due Date for Reaction Paper 3
Final Exam--TBA (Final Exam Period April 30-May 4)