The textbook reading (Noble et al) complements class sessions by providing you with further contextual information and different interpretations of past events. You should do the textbook reading for the day it is assigned. Doing so is even more vital if you have not studied similar subjects previously. While this is an introductory level course, in class we cannot adequately cover the sheer breadth of the material the course treats. As such our class sessions will primarily be devoted to developing fuller, deeper, and more critical understandings of some of that material.
The two books for the course should be available at the Anglo-American Bookstore (Via della Vite 102, near Piazza di Spagna).
The on-line historical sources will provide the basis for our classroom discussions. You must read and think about those assigned for a particular class period before coming to that class. Otherwise, you will be unable to participate adequately and your participation grade will suffer. You should also bring this material to class on the days that we are discussing it. If you need additional print credits to print them out, I will be happy to sign a print-credit waiver form (available from the University's IT Office).
Please note that in using on-line primary sources I am not necessarily endorsing the more general content and intent of the websites on which they are found.
Important Course Policies
All assignments must be submitted in the form of both hard and electronic copies (e-mail them to me as .pdf, .doc. or .docx files).
All late work will be penalized by at least one letter grade. No late work will be accepted following the final examination.
Any documented case of academic dishonesty on any assignment will result not only in a failing grade for the assignment in question but also in a failing grade for the course as a whole. Please remember that, as the University's policy states, "Plagiarism can be deliberate or negligent; students are responsible for ensuring that any work submitted with their name on it is properly referenced." If you have questions about how to cite material properly, refer to the appropriate sections of the MLA Style Manual or Chicago Manual of Style--if you have questions as to whether particular pieces of material should be cited, ask me. Note that submitting work that you have previously submitted (or plan to submit) for credit in another course is also a form of academic dishonesty, unless you obtain explicit approval from both instructors to do so. For this course, no such double submission is allowed. Please note that your papers may be submitted to turnitin.com to check their content for plagiarism.
Accessing Shared Documents on MyJCU and Other Course Readings
1. Go to the internal web site (MY JCU).
2. After you have logged in, click on the course post-it for Fall 2019, HS 121. Then click on shared files.
3. Please note that handouts in the form of pdf documents may not open with some internet browsers (in particular there seem to be incompatibilities with Chrome). If a source doesn't open, try another browser; if the problem persists please e-mail me.
4. Be sure to check the handouts page frequently for changes and updates. Similarly, I will post messages on the MyJCU board should I need to contact you in between class meetings (e.g., in the case of an unexpected class cancellation).
5. All other course readings are either in the form of the books listed above or available on-line through the links on this syllabus.
Course Schedule (Please note that the following is subject to change--any updates will be made to the on-line syllabus, available on the University's webpage: http://www.johncabot.edu/academics/courses/course-schedules-syllabi.aspx.)--LAST UPDATE Nov. 12
9/3 Introductions: "History" and the “West” in 1500
Recommended: Noble, Preface
9/5 Christendom Falls Apart: The Wars of Religion
Noble, Ch. 15
DISCUSSION: Documents on the Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre and the Edict of Nantes (Shared Files MyJCU)
9/10 The English Revolution: The Political Implications of Religious Change
Noble, Ch. 16
DISCUSSION:
"The Edict of Nantes" (Shared Files, MyJCU)
“The True Levellers Standard Advanced, 1649” http://www.diggers.org/diggers/tlsa.htm
9/12 Reworking Political Order: Constitutionalism and Absolutism
DISCUSSION:
Locke, “Two Treatises of Government, 1690” http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1690locke-sel.html
Hobbes, “Leviathan, Chaps 13-14, 1651” http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/hobbes-lev13.asp
"Additional Excerpts From Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan" (Shared Files MyJCU)
Domat, “ On Social Order and Absolute Monarchy” http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1687domat.html
9/17 Making Order: Manners and Military Drill
DISCUSSION:
French Military Ordinance—(Shared Files MyJCU)
“Manner Guides” in Elias, The Civilizing Process (Shared Files MyJCU)
9/19 New Ways of Ordering the Universe: The Scientific Revolution
Noble, Ch. 17
DISCUSSION:
Copernicus, “Dedication of the Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies, 1543” http://historyguide.org/earlymod/dedication.html
Galilei, “Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina of Tuscany, 1615” http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/galileo-tuscany.html
Bellarmine, “Letter on Galileo's Theories, 1615” http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1615bellarmine-letter.html
9/20 OFFICIAL JCU FRIDAY MAKE-UP--Order and Disorder in Town and Countryside: The World of Peasants and Poor Urban Dwellers
DISCUSSION:
“Social Conditions in 17th Century France” http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/17france-soc.asp
“Accounts of the ‘Potato Revolution,’ 1695 – 1845” http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1695potato.html
“The Saint Marcel Neighborhood” and “A Bread Riot,” from Liberty, Equality, Fraternity
(http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/) (Shared Files, MyJCU)
9/24 Motion in the System: Atlantic Empires, Slavery, and the First World Wars
Noble, Ch. 18
DISCUSSION:
“Le Code Noir” http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/d/335/
“Life of Gustavus Vassa” http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/Vassa.html
Explore Images of the Slave Trade and Slave Life in “The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record”
http://slaveryimages.org/
9/26 Critique and Reordering the World of Learning: The Enlightenment
DISCUSSION:
Condorcet, “The Future Progress of the Human Mind” http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/condorcet-progress.html
Kant, “What is Enlightenment?, 1784” http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/kant-whatis.html
10/1 Whose Order? Whose Rights?: The French Revolution
Noble, Ch. 19
DISCUSSION:
“Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen” http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/rightsof.asp
Gouge, “Declaration of the Rights of Women, 1791” http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1791degouge1.html
Robespierre, “Justification of the Use of Terror” http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/robespierre-terror.html
“The French Revolutionary Calendar” http://webexhibits.org/calendars/calendar-french.html
10/3 The Ends of Empires?: American Revolutions and Antislavery
DISCUSSION:
Thomas Jefferson, “Draft of the Declaration of Independence” http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/documents/1776-1785/jeffersons-draft-of-the-declaration-of-independence.php
“Final Text of the Declaration of Independence” http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/documents/1776-1785/the-final-text-of-the-declaration-of-independence-july-4-1776.php
“Natural and Inalienable Right to Freedom”: Slaves ’Petition for Freedom to the Massachusetts Legislature, 1777” http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6237/
“Haitian Declaration of Independence” (Shared Files, MyJCU)
10/8 Towards New Imperial Orders?: Napoleon Bonaparte in Egypt and Europe
DISCUSSION :
Documents on Napoleon (Shared Files, MyJCU)
Juan Cole, "Playing Muslim: Bonaparte's Army of the Orient and Euro-Muslim Creolization (excerpts)," 125-133, 141-143 (Shared Files, MyJCU)
10/10 Midterm Examination
10/15 New Ways of Working and Living: The Impact of the Industrial Revolution
Noble, Ch. 20
DISCUSSION:
“Women Miners in the English Coal Pits” http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1842womenminers.html
Engels, “Industrial Manchester, 1844” http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1844engels.html
“Tables Illustrating the Spread of Industrialization” http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/indrevtabs1.html
10/17 Responses to the Revolutions, Part 1: Political Ideologies and Revolutions
Noble, Ch. 21
DISCUSSION
Metternich, “Political Confession of Faith, 1820” http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1820metternich.html
Smiles, “Self Help, 1882” http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1882smiles.html
Blanc, “The Organisation of Labour, 1840” http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1840blanc.html
Kropotkin, “Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal, 1896” http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1896kropotkin.html
10/22 Responses to the Revolutions, Part 2: Nationalism and Unifications
Noble, Ch. 22
DISCUSSION:
Renan, “What is a Nation?” (Shared Files, MyJCU)
10/24 The Birth of Mass Society and Politics: Ongoing Industrialization and Urbanization
Noble, Ch. 23
DISCUSSION:
Taylor, “The Principles of Scientific Management, 1911” http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1911taylor.html
10/29 New Visions: Mass and Avant-garde Culture
DISCUSSION:
Darwin, “The Descent of Man, 1871” http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1871darwin.asp
Nietzsche, “Excerpts” http://history.hanover.edu/courses/excerpts/111niet.html
10/31 Global Domination: The “New Imperialism” and the New Empires
Noble, Ch. 24
DISCUSSION:
Kipling, “The White Man's Burden, 1899” http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/Kipling.html
Pearson, "National Life From the Standpoint of Science, 1900" http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/1900pearsonl.asp
Start Reading Levi, If This Is A Man
11/5 Total War, part 1: World War I and the Bolshevik Revolution
Noble, Ch. 25
DISCUSSION:
“World War I Poetry” http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1914warpoets.html
Niepage, “The Armenian Massacres” http://www.firstworldwar.com/diaries/armenianmassacres.htm
Continue Reading Levi, If This Is A Man
11/7 From War to Revolution: Russia and the Bolsheviks
DISCUSSION:
Lenin, "War and Revolution" (Shared Files, MyJCU)
Luxemburg, "The Problem of Dictatorship" (Shared Files, MyJCU)
Continue Reading Levi, If This Is A Man
11/12 From War to Revolution Russia and the Bolsheviks Continued
11/14 Change and Crisis: Gender Revolutions and Economic Disasters
Noble, Ch. 26
DISCUSSION:
Pankhurst, “My Own Story, 1914” (Focus on Chapter IV) http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1914Pankhurst.html
Kollontai, “The Social Basis of the Woman Question, 1909” https://www.marxists.org/archive/kollonta/1909/social-basis.htm
Continue Reading Levi, If This Is A Man
11/19 Totalitarian Responses: Fascism, Nazism, and Stalinism
Noble, Ch. 27
DISCUSSION:
Mussolini, “What is Fascism?” http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/mussolini-fascism.html
Hitler, Excerpts from Speeches and Mein Kampf http://history.hanover.edu/courses/excerpts/111hit1.html
“Hymn to Stalin” http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/stalin-worship.html
Continue Reading Levi, If This Is A Man
11/21 Total War, part 2: World War II and Genocide
Noble, Ch. 28
DISCUSSION:
Hoess "Testimony at Nuremburg" http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/1946hoess.asp
Levi, If This Is A Man
11/26 A New Global Struggle and a Decentered Europe: The Cold War and Decolonization
Noble, Ch. 29
DISCUSSION:Nehru “Marxism, Capitalism and Non-Alignment” https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/1941nehru.asp
Sukarno, “Speech at the Opening of the Bandung Conference, April 18 1955” https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/1955sukarno-bandong.asp
Nehru, “Speech to Bandung Conference Political Committee, 1955” https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/1955nehru-bandung2.asp
Short Paper on If This Is A Man Due--NOTE THE DUE DATE HAS CHANGED
12/3 The “West” in an Age of Integration and Immigration
Noble, Ch. 30
DISCUSSION:
Skrewdriver, “Europe Awake” and “Before The Night Falls”
http://www.metrolyrics.com/europe-awake-lyrics-skrewdriver.html
http://www.metrolyrics.com/before-the-night-falls-lyrics-skrewdriver.html
Noir Désir, “A Day In France” (Shared Files, MyJCU)
Asian Dub Foundation, “Fortress Europe” (Shared Files, MyJCU)
The Clash, “Whiteman in Hammersmith Palais” (Shared Files, MyJCU)
MC Solaar, “Le Nouveau Western” (Shared Files, MyJCU)
12/5 Where Have We Been? Where Are We Going?
DISCUSSION:
Web Assignment—Trends, Directions, Institutions
Final Exam--TBA (Final Exam Period December 9-13)