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CC 2.2
Shaping of the Modern World
Fall 2006
KC Johnson
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A history of
modernity since 1500. Topics include the emergence of
the Atlantic World; early modern society, culture, and
the state; trade, colonialism, and slavery;
Enlightenment; key political, scientific, industrial and
technological revolutions; nineteenth-century nation
states and mass society; twentieth-century war,
revolution, and resistance; nationalism,
internationalism, and totalitarianism; demography,
migration, and the environment; work, gender, and daily
life.
The course covers
seven time periods: Early Modern World; Age of
Revolutions; Industrial Societies; Nations and
Ideologies; Western Imperialism; World Wars and
Totalitarianism; and the Post-1945 World. |
Readings:
- Secondary: Western
Civilization: A Social and Cultural History by Margaret L.
King (3rd ed.; Prentice Hall, 2004). Several copies of the 2nd
and 3rd editions on library reserve; the book is also available
for purchase at the BC College Bookstore.
- Primary: documents and
maps on the web, all accessible through the class website.
Requirements:
- Exams (midterm on October 25,
final TBA): 55%
- Quizzes (based on reading, each
class; either multiple choice or map-based, bottom four
dropped): 30%
- Participation: 15%
Schedule:
August 30: Introduction
September 4:
No classes--Labor Day
September 6: Initial Expansion: The
Columbian Exchange, Colonialism, and Slavery
September 11: Enlightenment Thinkers
September 13: No
class--change of schedule
September 18: The American Revolution
September 20: The Constitution
September 25: International
Revolutions
September 27: European
Industrialization and Its Effects
- King, Western Civilization,
chapter 21
Marx & Engels, Communist Manifesto, Introduction,
Parts I, II, IV
October 3:
The World in 1850
October 4: Diplomacy--in class
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Rules (review before coming to class)
Map
(print out and bring to class)
October 9: No classes--Columbus Day
October 11: Nationalism and State
Formation, 1848-1871
October 16: Imperialism I, Initial
Surges
October 18: Imperialism II, Second Wave
October 23: Review
October 25: Midterm
October 30: Imperialism III,
Latin America
November 1:
World War I
November 6: Versailles, Leninism, and
the World of the 1920s
November 8: Responses to the
Depression: Fascism, Stalinism, and the New Deal
November 13: Road to War
November 15: World War II
- King, Western Civilization,
chapter 28 (second half)
Churchill, "We
Shall Fight on the Beaches" speech, 1940
FDR, "Arsenal
of Democracy" speech, 1940
FDR and Churchill,
Atlantic Charter, 1941
Map:
Main camps and killing sites during the Nazi Era
Map:
Ghettoes in Nazi-occupied Europe, with sizes
Maps: Fascist Europe, 1942 (military
perspective;
political perspective)
November 20: Coming of the Cold War
November 22: No
classes--Thanksgiving Break
November 27: The Cold War Hardens
November 29:
Decolonization and Civil Rights
- King, Western Civilization,
chapter 29
December 4:
The Collapse of the Soviet
Union
December 6: Globalization and the
Post-Cold War World
December 11: The Post-9/11 World
December 13: Review
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