His 112  Modern World Civilization

Schedule of Readings

  

OER Course Materials:

There are no books to purchase for this class.  All textbooks and monographs are free Open Online Resources linked below:
-Textbook=                        - Modern World History 

-Additional online materials will be made available via the Course Schedule.

-Tip= Use nightlight or nightshift screen setting to make reading online easier.  (How to turn off Blue Light-click here)

Lecture Textbook Review Materials (links) 

-Lecture Review Materials:    (This course is being built, materials will be posted as they become available.)  

    Powerpoint slides 1 (click here)            Powerpoint slides 2 (click here)      Powerpoint slides 3 (click here)

 

His 112  Course Schedule 

 

Class Date

 

Topic:

Face-to-Face Meeting

 

Readings

(to be completed befor class)

Tuesday- Read textbook     
Thursday- Read primary sources


Week 1


Laying the Groundwork of Globalism:
  Age of Euro Exploration

Read (Textbook):  Introduction

Read Primary Sources

 -Columbus Letter (1494)

-List of Zheng He’s Expeditions (1431)

17th & 18th centuries                                          


Week 2


Rise of European Colonial Powers:
Absolutism v Constitutionalism
1600-1789

Read (Textbook):    Ch. 2 - Europe and Africa

Read Primary Sources


Week 3


Stability and Change:
Asia and the World

Read  (Textbook):  Ch. 1 - Asia

Read Primary Source BOOK (read ahead of time) 
-Las Casas "Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies


Week 4



The Atlantic World:
Africa, America, and the Slave Trade

Read (Textbook):  Ch. 3- The Americas

Read Primary Sources

-Letters on the Slave Trade 1526  

-Abolition Speech 1789:(Recording)   (Transcript)

-Economic Defense of Slavery 1789

The Long 19th Century                                   


Week 5

           
Age of Revolutions:
Enlightenment, Liberalism,
and the Americas
    1775-1833
   

Read  (Textbook):     Ch. 4

Read Primary Sources

-French Dec. of the Rights of Man and Citizen (1789) 

-The Haitian Declaration of Independence, (1804) 

-Act of Independence of the Yucatan Peninsula (1841) 


Week 6



Industrial Revolution:

Capitalism and the new World Economy    1789-1815
 

Read  (Textbook):    Ch. 5 

Read Primary Sources

-"The Life of the Industrial Worker in England" (1832)

-Leeds Woolen Worker Petition,

-1786 Letter from Leeds Cloth Merchants,


Week 7



Imperialism:
  Africa and South East Asia

Read  (Textbook):   Ch. 6

Read Primary Sources

-Letter from King Leopold II of Belgium on the Congo (1890)

-Excerpts from The Casement Report (1904)

-White Man's Burden

20th Century                                             


Week 8


Europe ignites the World:
  Nationalism and the Great War

Read  (Textbook):    Ch. 7

Read Primary Sources:

--Excerpts from Communist Manifesto1848

-Fichte: To the German Nation 1806

-Deportation of Armenians from Zeitun, July 21, 1915



Week 9


Totalitarianism:
Communism, Fascism, and 
1918-1942

Read (Textbook):   Ch. 8

Read Primary Sources

-Mao Zedong, "What Is Guerrilla Warfare?" (1937) 

-Adolf Hitler, Excerpts from Speeches (1923, 1930, 1932)  

-Stalin's Purges, 1935


Week 10


World War II

1931-1945

Read  (Textbook):   Ch. 9

Read Primary Sources 

-Louise Yim on the Japanese Occupation of Korea (1951) 

-Elie Wiesel, Excerpts from Night (1960)

-Potsdam Declaration.

-General Farrell's Survey of Hiroshima


Week 11



 The Cold War  
&  
Decolonization
1945-1993 

Read (Textbook):     Ch. 10 &  Ch. 11

Read Primary Sources

-Winston Churchill, "Iron Curtain" Speech (1946)  

-Mohandas K. Gandhi, Excerpts from Hind Swarj (Indian Home Rule, 1910) 

-Sarojini Naidu, Excerpts from Several Speeches (1917, 1918, 1946)  


Week 12



Globalization and Asian Expansion
1985 - Your Birth

Read (Textbook):   Ch. 12, &  Ch. 13 

Read Primary Sources

-World reactions to Sputniks
-von Braun to Johnson (4/29/1961)

-Testimonies From The Genocide In Rwanda, (1994)

Week 13
(EXAM WEEK)


 


Note: The instructor has the right to alter or change the course schedule at any time as he/she deems appropriate.

 



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