Important Course Policies
All assignments must be handed in the form of both hard and electronic copies (e-mail them to me).
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. 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 (or talk to me). There are copies of both in the reference section of the library. Please note that also 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
1. Go to the internal web site (MY JCU).
2. After you have logged in, click on the course post-it for Fall 2015, HS 210. Then click on shared files.
3. You should then be able to access any course handouts not accessible by clicking the links on this syllabus.
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, etc.).
Accessing J-Stor Readings
While on campus, you should be able to access these readings simply by clicking on the links on the syllabus. On the page that appears, you can find links to download the full article as a PDF file or to print it out. Off-campus you may need to go to the website for the Frohring Library, click on the link for "Databases" and "J-Stor" and then search for the article manually.
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.)
9/1. Introductions—Europe and the World, Modernity, and the Old Regime
9/3. The Legacies of the Old Regime, French Revolution, and Napoleon, I
WN (Winks and Neuberger), 1-9 (Introduction)
Begin reading WN, 64-124 (Chs. 3-4)
DISC: "Modernity and Early Modern Executions" (MyJCU)
DISC: "Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen"
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/rightsof.asp
9/8. The Legacies of the Old Regime, French Revolution, and Napoleon, II
Continue reading WN, 64-124 (Chs. 3-4)
DISC: "Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen"
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/rightsof.asp
DISC: Woolf, “The Construction of a European World-View in the Revolutionary-Napoleonic Years,” 72-101 http://www.jstor.org/stable/650852
9/10. Ideologies, I--Conservatism and Liberalism
WN, 125-139 (Ch. 5)
DISC: Burke, “Reflections on The Revolution in France, 1791” http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1791burke.html
DISC: Tocqueville, Democracy in America (excerpts)
http://history.hanover.edu/courses/excerpts/111toc.html
DISC: Burke and Tocqueville on Empire (Handout)
9/15. The Industrial Revolution, I—Technology and Work
WN, 64-124 (Chs. 3-4)
DISC: Guest, "The Steam Loom, 1823"
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1823cotton.asp
DISC: Ure, "The Philosophy of the Manufacturers, 1835"
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1835ure.asp
DISC: “Leeds Woollen Workers Petition, 1786”
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1786machines.asp
DISC: “Letter from Leeds Cloth Merchants, 1791”
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1791machines.asp
DISC: “Observations on the Loss of Woollen Spinning, 1794”
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1794woolens.asp
DISC: "Rules for Workers in the Foundry and Engineering Works, 1844" (Handout)
9/17. The Industrial Revolution, II—Social and Cultural Ramifications
DISC: Stearns, "The Social History Approach," 207-213 (Handout)
DISC: “Women Miners in the English Coal Pits”
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1842womenminers.asp
DISC: Dickens, "Excerpt from Hard Times" (MyJCU)
9/22. Questions of Feeling--Romanticism and Religious Revival
WN, 41-63 (Ch. 2)
DISC: Salmi, "From the Cult of Genius to Worship of Art," 43-57 (Handout)
DISC: Wordsworth, "The Excursion" http://legacy.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/1814wordsworth.asp
DISC: Blake, "Jerusalem," http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/241908
9/24. Ideologies, II—Economic Liberalism and Early Socialisms
WN, 139-152 (Review Ch. 5)
DISC: Smith, "Excerpt from The Wealth of Nations" (MyJCU)
DISC: Ricardo, "The Iron Law of Wages" http://legacy.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/ricardo-wages.asp
DISC: Fourier, “Theory of Social Organization” http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1820fourier.asp
DISC: Fourier, "Excerpts from The Theory of the Four Movements" (Handout)
DISC: Tristan, “Excerpts from Worker's Union" (Handout)
Reaction Paper 1 Due
9/25. Official Make-up Day: Ideologies, III—Nationalism
WN, 57-62 (Review Ch. 2)
DISC: Herder, “Materials for the Philosophy of the History of Mankind, 1784”
http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/1784herder-mankind.asp
DISC: Fichte, "To The German Nation"
http://legacy.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/1806fichte.asp
DISC: Mazzini, "An Essay on the Duties of Man"
https://history.hanover.edu/texts/mazzini/mazzini5.html
9/29. The "Restoration" and Its Discontents
WN, 11-40 (Ch. 1)
DISC: "Carlsbad Resolutions"
http://history.hanover.edu/texts/carlsbad.html
DISC: Guizot, “Condition of the July Monarchy, 1830-1848”
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1848guizot.asp
DISC: WN, 30
10/1. Stability and Reform—The British Empire, Abolition, and Imperial Missions
WN, 35-38 (Review Ch. 1)
DISC: Davis, "12. Explanations of British Abolitionism," 231-249 in Inhuman Bondage (Electronic Resource Available Through JCU Library)
DISC: Macaulay, “Speech On The Reform Bill of 1832, March 2, 1831”
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1832macaulay-reform.asp
DISC: Macaulay, “On Empire and Education”
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1833macaulay-india.asp
DISC: WN, 134
10/6. Legacies of the Dual Revolutions Beyond Europe--The Middle East (and China?)
Recommended: WN, 257-270 (Ch. 9)
DISC: Hermassi, "The French Revolution and the Arab World," 127-139 (Handout)
DISC: Sayyid Jamal Ad-Din 'Al-Afghani', "Lecture on Teaching and Learning," 70-74 (Handout)
Optional Due Date for 2nd Reaction Paper
10/8. Midterm Examination
10/13. A Permanent State of Crisis?--Mid-Century European Instability (or the Revolutions of 1848)
WN, 153-182 (Ch. 6)
DISC: “Documents of the Revolution of 1848 in France”
http://history.hanover.edu/texts/fr1848.html
DISC: Schurz, “A Look Back at 1848, 1907”
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1848schurz.asp
10/15. A Permanent State of Crisis?--Mid-Century Global Instability (or Imperial and Civil Wars)
DISC: Bayly, "Between World Revolutions," 125-169 (Handout--for what to read, see your instructions on your handout)
10/20. The Industrial Revolution, III--A Second Revolution?
WN, 229-238 (Ch. 8)
DISC: Taylor, “The Principles of Scientific Management, 1911” http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/1911taylor.asp
DISC: “Tables Illustrating the Spread of Industrialization” http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/indrevtabs1.html
DISC: “Spread of Railways in 19th Century” http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/indrev6.html
10/22. Uniting the World--Transportation and the Telegraph, Trade and Migration
DISC: Zolberg, "Global Movements, Global Walls," 279-303 (Handout)
DISC: "Letters from Polish Immigrants in America" http://www.jaha.org/edu/discovery_center/push-pull/letterstohome.html
Optional Due Date for 2nd Reaction Paper
10/27. Uniting the World, Dividing Spaces and People: Urban Transformations
DISC: Bayly. "Worldwide Urban Cultures and their Critics," 194-198 (Handout)
DISC: Headrick, "Cities, Sanitation, and Segregation," 145-170 (Handout)
Optional Due Date for 2nd Reaction Paper
10/29. Modern Living--Consumerism, Class and Culture
WN, 289-309 (Ch. 10)
DISC: Zola, The Ladies' Paradise, excerpts, 233-251, 259-269 (Handout/On Reserve)
DISC: Explore images of the Bon Marché at http://expositions.bnf.fr/zola/bonheur/borne/accueil.htm (click on parts of the image to see the image)
DISC: Bauer, "Extranjerizacion: The Self-Estrangement of the Belle Epoque Elite," 150-164 (Handout)
Optional Due Date for 2nd Reaction Paper
11/3. Modern Faiths--Religion and Science
WN, 238-256
DISC: Darwin, “On the Origin of Species (1859)”
http://history.hanover.edu/courses/excerpts/111dar.html
DISC: Darwin, “The Descent of Man, 1871”
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1871darwin.asp
DISC: Wilberforce, “On Darwin's Origin of Species, 1860”
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1860wilberforce-darwin.asp
DISC: Mivart, “On the Genesis of the Species, 1871”
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1871mivart.asp
DISC: Gladstone, “Points of Supposed Collision Between the Scriptures and Natural Science, 1872”
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1872gladstone.asp
Optional Due Date for 2nd Reaction Paper
11/5. Ideologies, IV--Marxist Socialism, Russian Populism and Anarchism
DISC: Marx and Engels, “The Communist Manifesto” (PDF version, Required: 2-21, 28-32; Recommended: 22-27)
http://www.marx.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/index.htm
DISC: Bernstein, "Evolutionary Socialism"
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/bernstein-revsoc.asp
DISC: Bakunin, "Stateless Socialism: Anarchism"
http://marxists.org/reference/archive/bakunin/works/various/soc-anar.htm
DISC: "Documents on Russian Imperial Politics" (Handout)
Optional Due Date for 2nd Reaction Paper
11/10. Ideologies, V--Nationalism Transformed?
Begin Reading WN, 183-228, 319-350 (Chs. 7, 11)
DISC: Hobsbawm, "Mass Producing Traditions," 263-307 (Handout)
Optional Due Date for 2nd Reaction Paper
11/12. Modernization, International Competition, and the State (France and/or Mexico)
Continue Reading WN, 183-228, 319-350 (Chs. 7, 11)
DISC: WN, 189
DISC: Review "Louis Napoleon's Campaign Manifesto," in “Documents of the Revolution of 1848 in France”
http://history.hanover.edu/texts/fr1848.html
DISC: Passanati, "'Nada De Papeluchos!' Managing Globalization in Early Porfirian Mexico," 101-128 http://www.jstor.org/stable/4499391
DISC: "Porfirio Diaz, Viceroy of Mexico," 316-322 (Handout)
Last Possible Due Date for 2nd Reaction Paper
11/17. Modernization, International Competition and the State, II (Russia and/or Japan)
Finish Reading WN, 183-228, 319-350 (Chs. 7, 11)
DISC: "Documents on Russian Imperial Politics" (Handout)--Review
DISC: "Emperor Meiji's Letter to President Grant on Iwakura Mission, 1871," 31-32 (Handout)
11/19. "High Imperialism," I--Means and Motivations
WN, 257-288 (Ch. 9)
DISC: Hobson, "Imperialism, 1902" http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/1902hobson.asp
DISC: "British Missionary Letters Urging the Annexation of the South Sea Islands, 1883" http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/1883hebrides.asp
DISC: Lugard, "The Rise of Our East African Empire, 1893" http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/1893lugard.asp
DISC: Ferry, "On French Colonial Expansion, 1884" http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/1884ferry.asp
DISC: Earl of Cromer, "Why Britain Acquired Egypt in 1892, 1908" http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/1908cromer.asp
DISC: Wilmelm II, "A Place in the Sun, 1901" http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/1901Kaiser.asp
DISC: Prince Ukhtomskii, "Russia's Imperial Destiny, 1891" http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/1891ukhtomskii.asp
11/24. "High Imperialism", II--Colonial Experiences
DISC: Encyclopedia Britannica, "Congo Free State," 1902-1910 (Handout)
DISC: Casement, "The Congo Report" (Handout)
12/1. "High Imperialism", III--Metropolitan Experiences, Racism, and "Civilization"
DISC: Pearson, "National Life From the Standpoint of Science, 1900" http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/1900pearsonl.asp
DISC: Galton, "The Comparative Worth of Different Races" (Handout)
DISC: Kipling, "The White Man's Burden, 1899" http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/kipling.asp
12/3. Is This the End?--Fin de Siècle Culture and the Rise of an Avant-Garde
WN, 309-318, 350-358 (Review Chs. 10-11)
DISC: Salmi, "Fin de Siècle: The End of a Century," 124-139
Analytical Book Review Due
FINAL EXAM--Date and Time TBA
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