Part 1. The Big Picture: A Quick Overview of Globalization and Its History
1/22 First Impressions—What is Globalization? What is its history?
1/24 Conceptualizing the History of Globalization
Marks, 1-17 (Introduction)
Chanda, Bound Together, 245-269 (Shared Files, MyJCU)
Osterhammel and Petersson, Globalization: A Short History, 1-11 (Shared Files, MyJCU)
1/29 First Globalizations?: Conquerors, Merchants, and Missionaries to c. 1500
Marks, 19-65 (Ch. 1, 2)
1/31 The Birth of a Modern World Order, Pt. 1: Ships, Germs, and Empires, c. 1500-c. 1800
Marks, 66-96 (Ch. 3)
2/5 The Birth of a Modern World Order, Pt. II: Industrialization, c. 1750-c. 1850
Marks, 97-125 (Ch. 4)
2/7 The Opening of the "Gap": Industry, Imperialism, and Inequality, c. 1800-1900
Marks, 127-160 (Ch. 5)
2/12 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
2/14 "The View from Delft": Looking Outward From The Dutch Republic
Brook, 1-25 (Ch. 1)
2/19 "Vermeer's Hat": Furs, "Indians," and the Northwest Passage
Brook, 26-53 (Ch. 2)
2/21 "A Dish of Fruit": How Porcelain Became "China"
Brook, 54-83 (Ch. 3)
2/22 FRIDAY OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY MAKE-UP--"Geography Lessons": Visions of the World from Europe and China
Brook, 84-116 (Ch. 4)
2/26 "A School for Smoking": Tobacco and Opium
Brook, 117-151 (Ch. 5)
2/28 "Weighing Silver": Precious Metals and the 17th-Century World Economy
Brook, 152-184 (Ch. 6)
Reaction Paper 2 Due (Optional Due Date)
3/5 "Journeys": Sea Travel and Its Hazards
Brook, 185-230 (Ch. 7, 8)
Reaction Paper 2 Due (Must Be Handed in By This Date)
3/7 Midterm Exam
Part 3. Closer Looks II: Forging Local Links c. 1400 to the Present
3/19 The Rules of the Game: Making Market Conventions
Pomeranz and Topik, ix-xiii, 3-48 (Foreword, Introduction, Ch. 1)
Possible Due Date--Reaction Paper 3
3/21 From Here to There and Back Again: Transportation
Pomeranz and Topik, 49-80 (Ch. 2)
Possible Due Date--Reaction Paper 3
3/26 Chocolate, Opium, Coffee and Cocaine: Drug Trades and Drug Wars
Pomeranz and Topik, 81-107 (Ch. 3)
Possible Due Date--Reaction Paper 3
3/28 Sobering Thoughts: Learning to Drink Coffee in Early Modern Europe
Schivelbusch, "Coffee and the Protestant Ethic" (Shared Files, MyJCU)
Possible Due Date--Reaction Paper 3
4/2 Production, Consumption, and Meaning: The Lives of Commodities
Pomeranz and Topik, 108-151 (Ch. 4)
Possible Due Date--Reaction Paper 3
4/4 “Now we see the violence inherent in the system!”: Force and Fortunes
Pomeranz and Topik, 152-192 (Ch. 5)
Possible Due Date--Reaction Paper 3
4/9 A Moment of 'Glocal' Resistance?: New York, 1741
Rediker and Linebaugh, "'The Outcasts of the Nations of the Earth'" (Shared Files, MyJCU)
Possible Due Date--Reaction Paper 2
4/11 Setting Standards: Making Modern Markets
Pomeranz and Topik, 193-243 (Ch. 6)
Possible Due Date--Reaction Paper 3
4/16 Uneven Growth: Industrialization and Deinsdustrialization Revisited
Pomeranz and Topik, 244-287 (Ch. 7)
Possible Due Date--Reaction Paper 3
4/18 Global Cultures?: Sports
Appadurai, "Playing with Modernity: The Decolonization of Indian Cricket" (Shared Files, MyJCU)
Last Possible Due Date--Reaction Paper 3
4/23 and 4/30 Global Cultures?: Music
Patterson, "Ecumenical America: Global Culture and the American Cosmos" http://scholar.harvard.edu/files/patterson/files/ecumencial.pdf
(Read pages 103-111. We will discuss this along with the film at the end of class on April 30.)
Film Screening: The Harder They Come
Analytical Book Review Due on April 30
5/2 Globalization: Where, when, how, why, and so what?
Pomeranz and Topik, 288-304 (Epilogue)--NOTE: Be sure to read the 4th edition epilogue, see MyJCU Shared Files.
Final Exam--TBA (Final Exam Period May 6-10)