History 215

  1. Global Interrelatedness and Modernization Theory
    1. World History Implies "Global Interrelatedness."

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    Findley-Rothney
    Hammond
    Readings
    Ch. 1
    29-31
    1. "Classical," traditional societies.

     

    Findley-Rothney
    Hammond
    Readings
    I-VI
    1. The First Global System, 1500-1800

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    Findley-Rothney
    Hammond
    Readings
    VII-VIII, H-23, H-37
    1. The European-"world system," 1800-1914
      Findley-Rothney
      Hammond
      Readings
      Ch. 2 (pgs. 28-34)
      H-38-H-41
    2. 1914: Challenges to and the collapse of the European "world system."
    1. Comparative Modernization: The Divergent Streams of Modernizations: Four Case Studies.
      Findley-Rothney
      Hammond
      Readings
      2-5
    2. Liberal Modernization in the West. The "Dual Revolution."
      1. "The First Wave." Commercial capitalism and revolutions on behalf of pluralist mass society.
      2. "The Second Wave." Industrial capitalism and the revolutions on behalf of authoritarian mass society.
        Findley-Rothney
        Hammond
        Readings
        H-36
        5-13

      Video: Marxism, the theory that Split a World. Click here for the text.

      For a lecture outline of the I.A-C. click

    3. Expansion and modification of the model
      1. "Germany "
        Findley-Rothney
        Hammond
        Readings
        Ch. 2 (pgs. 40-46)
        35
        13-16
      2. Imperial Russia
        Findley-Rothney
        Hammond
        Readings
        Ch. 4 (pgs. 81-86
        38
        17-18, 24-27

       

      For a lecture outline of I.D. click

       

    Map I Due the First Class Meeting of Week 2

    1. Conservative Modernization in Asia
      Findley-Rothney
      Hammond
      Readings
      Ch. 9 (pgs. 190-194)
      H-40, 41
      1. The Stimulus: Imperialism
        Findley-Rothney
        Hammond
        Readings
        Ch. 2 (pgs.29-30, 34-40, 46-53)
      2. The Ottoman Empire
        Findley-Rothney
        Hammond
        Readings
        Ch. 9 (pg. 199)
      3. Japan
        Findley-Rothney
        Hammond
        Readings
        Ch. 9 (pgs. 210-214)
        18-20

      Video: The Meiji Restoration. Click here for text.

      1. China.
        Findley-Rothney
        Hammond
        Readings
        Ch. 9 (205-207)
        H-39
        20-23

      Video: The Two Coasts. Click here for text.

      For a lecture outline of I.E. click

  2. The First Great Revolutionary Wave: 1914-1939

    MAP II DUE THE LAST CLASS OF WEEK 3

    1. World War I: The Convergence of nationalism and imperialism
      Findley-Rothney
      Hammond
      Readings
      Ch. 3
      H-45, 46
      31-37

      Video: "The Smell of War." Click here for text.

      Video: The First World War.

      For a lecture outline of II.A. click

    MAP III DUE LAST CLASS OF WEEK 4

    1. The Failure of Conservative Modernization: The Restructuring of the Social and Political Order ----- authoritarian mass mobilization. It is the thesis of the following analysis that societies that had experienced and failed in the process of conservative modernization were susceptible to revolutions that produced two varieties of totalitarian modernization in the twentieth
      1. The Communist Approach.
        1. Russia
          Findley-Rothney
             
          Ch. 4 (pgs. 83, 86-93)

        Video: The Red Dawn. Click here for text.

        For a lecture outline of II. B. 1.a click

        1. China.
          Findley-Rothney
          Ch. 4 (pgs. 98-101), Ch. 9 (pgs. 206-210

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      MAP IV DUE THE FIRST MEETING AFTER THE MID-TERM MAP QUIZ

      1. The Middle East and National Liberation to the present.
        Findley-Rothney
        Hammond

        Ch. 9 (200-205); Ch. 16 (pgs. 417-431; 442-451

        37, 54

      For a lecture outline of II. B. 2. click

      1. The Fascist Approach.
        1. Generic Fascism
        2. The Italian Prototyp
        3. The German Variant
        4. Japan: A question of fascism?
        5. Fascist aggression and the road to World War II
          Findley-Rothney
          Hammond
          Readings
          Ch. 6, Ch. 9 (pgs. 214-216
          H-48
          38-39

        For a lecture outline of II. B. 3, click

  3. The Second World War, The Cold War and After: 1939---?
    1. World War II.
      Findley-Rothney
      Hammond
      Ch. 10
      H-49, 50, 51

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    1. The Cold War and After: Four Case Studies.

    MAP V DUE FIRST CLASS MEETING OF WEEK 8.

    1. Europe and the "German Question" as a microcosm of the Cold War: 1945-1990.
      Findley-Rothney
         
      Ch. 11 (pgs. 244-253, 265-266, 268-271

    MAP VI DUE THE FIRST CLASS MEETING OF WEEK 9

    MAP VII DUE THE LAST CLASS MEETING OF WEEK 9

    1. The Soviet Union: The Rise and Fall of Communist hegemony in Eastern Europe, e.g. Yugoslavia.
      Findley-Rothney
      Ch. 13
    2. Japan: 1945---: Reemergence, Preeminence and Stagnation.
      Findley-Rothney
      Ch. 11 (pgs. 271-272) Ch 17 (pgs. 474-484
    3. Communist China: 1949---
      Findley-Rothney
         
      Ch. 17 (pgs. 466-474)